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Laminar Viscous Resuspension In Two-Dimensional Channels, Wenyue Yin
Laminar Viscous Resuspension In Two-Dimensional Channels, Wenyue Yin
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The laminar viscous resuspension of sphere particles in two-dimensional channel with gravity and electrostatic effects is studied numerically. The constitutive equation for particles include the shear-induced diffusion flux, gravitational sedimentation flux and electro-static diffusion flux. In addition the continuity equation and the momentum equations for incompressible flow are solved for developing flow using finite element method.
The parameters in this study are ratio of particle diameter to channel height d/h, Reynolds number Re, Froude number Fr, uniform inlet particle volume fraction Φ0, and electrostatic parameter Q. The numerical simulation included d/h from 0.03 to 0.12, Re from 5 …