Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4967536 | Journal of Computational Physics | 2017 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
The method of moments is a simple but efficient method of solving the population balance equation which describes particle dynamics. Recently, the moment projection method (MPM) was proposed and validated for particle inception, coagulation, growth and, more importantly, shrinkage; here the method is extended to include the fragmentation process. The performance of MPM is tested for 13 different test cases for different fragmentation kernels, fragment distribution functions and initial conditions. Comparisons are made with the quadrature method of moments (QMOM), hybrid method of moments (HMOM) and a high-precision stochastic solution calculated using the established direct simulation algorithm (DSA) and advantages of MPM are drawn.
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Authors
Shaohua Wu, Edward K.Y. Yapp, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, Rong Xu, Wenming Yang, Markus Kraft,