Abstract
It is with pleasure that we present this Special Issue of The Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows (JCMF), featuring select papers from the 11th International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries. The conference was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia, from 7 to 9 December 2015. The first conference in this series was held in 1997 and organised by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia. CSIRO has continued the series in Melbourne approximately every three years, whilst a sister conference was first held in Trondheim, Norway in 2005 and organised by SINTEF. Thus, the conferences are now held every 18 months with the latest one taking place in Trondheim in June of this year (2017).
The conference series has consistently attracted researchers from around the globe to present and discuss leading edge industrial research using computational fluid dynamics and related numerical modelling approaches. Mineral beneficiation, metal production and other complex industrial processes typically involve the combination, interaction and reaction of multiple phases, and so many of the papers presented at each conference tackle problems of particular interest to the readership of JCMF.
It is for this reason that the three papers presented in this issue were selected for expansion and publication here. Other papers from the conference, whose emphasis was better suited to different forums, will be presented in the journals Applied Mathematical Modelling and Chemical Engineering Science. All papers in this issue have followed the standard peer review process for inclusion in JCMF. They have been significantly expanded upon from the versions originally presented at the conference, to ensure they are suitable for inclusion in the permanent record of published scientific literature. We would like to thank the authors for their hard work in producing these papers, to the referees who kindly agreed to review them to ensure their high quality, and also to JCMF and SAGE Publishing for their hosting of the Special Issue.