Particle collision is an important process in soot particle growth. In this research, based on gas-solid two-phase flow, trajectory was traced by the Lagrange approach with periodic boundaries. Trajectory intersection, probability, and critical velocity were considered, growth path of each traced. The frequency, fc, agglomeration fa, friction ffc, calculated, main influence factors analyzed. re...

A Lagrangian-Eulerian methodology is developed for the numerical simulation of a gas-solid reactive flow. The SO2-NOx Adsorption Process (SNAP) is taken as a test case. A three-dimensional time dependent simulation is performed. A notional particle based Monte-Carlo algorithm is used to solve the transported composition Probability Density Function (PDF) equations to determine the gas phase com...

A theoretical two-phase-flow analysis is developed to describe the quasi-steady propagation, across a pressure jump, of a multi-phase deflagration in confined porous energetic materials. The difference, or overpressure, between the upstream (unburned) and downstream (burned) gas pressure leads to a more complex structure than that which is obtained for an unconfined deflagration in which the pr...

A method based on Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) and an improved Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) is proposed for void fraction measurement of oil-gas two-phase flow. In the modeling stage, to solve the two problems in LS-SVM, pruning skills are employed to make LS-SVM sparse and robust; then the Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm is introduced to solve the difficult problem...

In the present study, a heterogeneous and homogeneous gas flow dispersion model for simulation and optimization of a large-scale catalytic slurry reactor for the direct synthesis of dimethyl ether (DME) from synthesis gas (syngas) and CO2, using a churn-turbulent regime was developed. In the heterogeneous flow model, the gas phase was distributed into two bubble phases including small and large...

The present work involves numerical simulation of a steady, incompressible forcedconvection fluid flow through a matrix of porous media between two parallel plates at constanttemperature. A Darcy model for the momentum equation was employed. The mathematical model forenergy transport was based on single phase equation model which assumes local thermal equilibriumbetween fluid and solid phases. ...

Numerical modeling of a complete powder coating process is carried out to understand the gas-particle two-phase flow field inside a powder coating booth and results of the numerical simulations are compared with experimental data to validate the numerical results. The flow inside the coating booth is modeled as a three-dimensional turbulent continuous gas flow with solid powder particles as a d...

Fluctuations in the number of particles (or droplets and bubbles) are observed in experiments of multiphase flows, and these also manifest as fluctuations of the dispersed–phase volume fraction. The intensity of these fluctuations is characterized using a mathematical description based on second–order statistics. The intensity and range of fluctuations in the clustering regime of a granular gas...