A Comparison of Stochastic Separated Flow Models for Particle Dispersion in Turbulent Flows

Abstract

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Simulation of Particle Deposition in an Idealized Mouth with Different Small Diameter Inlets

“…In EIMs (for details see Gosman and Ionannides 1981;Schuen et al 1983;Zhou and Leschziner 1991;Wang and Stock 1992;Graham and James 1996;Hennick and Lightstone 2000), one particle is allowed to interact successively with various eddies. Each eddy has a characteristic lifetime, length, and velocity scale.…”

Distribution of the coal flow in the mill-duct system of the As Pontes Power Plant using CFD modeling

“…Compared with many random walk models, this model produces reasonably good behavior for flows with homogeneous turbulence but may give non-physical results in strongly inhomogeneous diffusion-dominated flows. The suitability of many other random walk models and particle dispersion models was analyzed in [14,15].…”

Numerical simulation of group combustion of pulverized coal

“…with q p and q" given by (23) and (21). Particle with low ash content, with disrupted ash layer and thus with variable radius <5 P .…”

“…In [19], for example, the effect of anisotropy has been included. The suitability of many others random walk models and particle dispersion models was analyzed in [20,21].…”