Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11032639 | Journal of Aerosol Science | 2018 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The dispersion and deposition of nano-particles in laminar flows in the presence of an electric field were studied. The Eulerian-Lagrangian particle tracking method was used to simulate nano-particle motions under the one-way coupling assumption. For nano-particles in the size range of 5-200â¯nm, in addition to the Brownian excitation, the electrostatic and gravitational forces were included in the analysis. Different charging mechanisms including field and diffusion charging as well as the Boltzmann charge distributions were investigated. The simulation methodology was first validated for Brownian and electrostatic forces. For the combined field and diffusion charging, the simulation results showed that in the presence of an electric field of 10â¯kV/m, the electrostatic force dominates the Brownian effects. However, when the electric field was 1â¯kV/m, the Brownian motion strongly affected the particle dispersion and deposition processes. For the electric field intensity of 1â¯kV/m, for 10â¯nm and 100â¯nm particles, the deposition efficiencies for the combined effects of electrostatic and Brownian motion were, respectively, about 27% and 161.2% higher than the case in the absence of electric field. Furthermore, particles with the Boltzmann charge distribution had the maximum deposition for 20â¯nm particles.
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Authors
Pouyan Talebizadeh Sardari, Hassan Rahimzadeh, Goodarz Ahmadi, Donald Giddings,