Research Spotlight
Professor McCarthy Examines Methods to Enhance Particle Processing
Segregation, or un-mixing, of particles has been a topic of intense research and industrial frustration for many decades, causing dramatic revenue loss and product failure in a variety of industries. A recent paper from the McCarthy group outlines an elegant and robust method for eliminating segregation that is generic for a huge class of particle flows, specifically free-surface flows (one of the most popularly studied in the literature). This paper will not only impact industrial practice in fields as varied as ceramics, pharmaceuticals, mining, and agriculture, but also change the way that academics think of attacking segregation problems.
