... HYDRODYNAMIC AND DISPERSION BEHAVIOUR OF AN ANALYTICAL SILICA MONOLITH RECONSTRUCTED FROM SUB- MICROTOMOGRAPHIC SCANS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS VIVEK VASUDEVAN (M.S., West ... commercially available silica monolith from sub- micron x-ray computed tomography scans and study its hydrodynamic and dispersion behaviour using a commercial computational fluid dynamics program The ... estimated from Wilke and Chang equation (Wilke and Chang, 1955): (3.2) where, where and , and , and are the molar fractions, the associative factors (1.9 for methanol, 2.6 for water), and the molecular...