1. THE VERIFICATION OF THE TAYLOR-EXPANSION MOMENT METHOD IN SOLVING AEROSOL BREAKAGE.
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Ming-Zhou YU and Kai ZHANG
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TAYLOR'S series , *PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of nanoparticles , *MONTE Carlo method , *COMPUTATIONAL fluid dynamics , *NUCLEATION - Abstract
The combination of the method of moment, characterizing the particle population balance, and the computational fluid dynamics has been an emerging research issue in the studies on the aerosol science and on the multiphase flow science. The difficulty of solving the moment equation arises mainly from the closure of some fractal moment variables which appears in the transform from the non-linear integral-differential population balance equation to the moment equations. Within the Taylor-expansion moment method, the breakage-dominated Taylor-expansion moment equation is first derived here when the symmetric fragmenta-tion mechanism is involved. Due to the high efficiency and the high precision, this proposed moment model is expected to become an important tool for solving population balance equations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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