Welcome to the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education
Multiphase flows are defined as a dispersed phase surrounded by a continuous fluid phase. These fluid systems play a fundamental role in numerous fields, each comprising several multi-billion-dollar industries. Examples of applications include:
- Petroleum and biorenewable fuel and chemical production
- Energy generation
- Materials processing and manufacturing
- Pharmaceutical production
- Food processing
- Consumer product manufacturing
- Concrete production
CoMFRE provides a forum for integration of the activities and skill-sets of multiple ISU investigators with external collaborators from academia, industry and national laboratories to accelerate knowledge transfer from fundamental scientific advances in multiphase flow to industrial applications and end-users.
Recent News- CoMFRE’s Shankar Subramaniam delivered an invited lecture on turbulent particle suspensions at the 2024 International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics symposium on rapid granular flows and turbulent particle suspensions
- CoMFRE’s Dennis Vigil leads project to develop continuous bioreactor
- Thanks to CoMFRE undergrad research experience, Olivia Tyrrell shot for the moon… and made it
- New Soft Matter Electrostatic Levitator makes possible world’s first neutron scattering on levitated salt solution droplets up to extreme supersaturation
- Advancing “placenta-on-a-chip” with sensing and imaging technology