2011
DOI: 10.1063/1.3562744
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Numerical Analysis of Gas Flow in Porous Media with Surface Reaction

Abstract: Gas flow with surface reaction in porous media appears in various regions of engineering. In porous media with holes as small as a molecular mean free path, Kn of gas flow in the narrow channel is on the order of unity. Therefore, the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is suitable to solve transport phenomena in such kind of porous media. We perform 2D DSMC simulations of such a flow. The shape of narrow channel in porous media is complicated. To reduce complexity, we propose the simplification for po… Show more

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“…In the present work, the DSMC method, which is the stochastic solution of the Boltzmann equation (Nanbu 1980), was used for numerical simulations of gas flows in porous media. The DSMC method has been used to simulate gas flow in micro-/nanoscale porous media (Saito et al 1995;Tomarikawa et al 2011;Kalarakis et al 2012;Oshima et al 2012;Dreyer et al 2014;Christou and Dadzie 2016).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the present work, the DSMC method, which is the stochastic solution of the Boltzmann equation (Nanbu 1980), was used for numerical simulations of gas flows in porous media. The DSMC method has been used to simulate gas flow in micro-/nanoscale porous media (Saito et al 1995;Tomarikawa et al 2011;Kalarakis et al 2012;Oshima et al 2012;Dreyer et al 2014;Christou and Dadzie 2016).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The particle motion is updated deterministically using a time step that is smaller than the mean collision time, so that the intermolecular collisions can be decoupled from the molecular motion. The code developed in this work is based on Bird's DSMC method [19] and is able to handle chemistry in the gas phase and to approximate the rate of surface chemistry reactions at gas-solid interfaces [39,40]. More specifically, the code is designed for performing optimizations of the distribution of an active material over the bounding surfaces of the system.…”
Section: The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (Dsmc) Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such additional complexities would also add to the computational cost and significantly reduce the efficiency of the optimization. In this work, surface reactions are therefore instead implemented as occurring at a wall with a certain probability [40]. This probability can be tuned to reproduce a physical reaction rate, implying that the main simplification involved is related to the loss of coverage-dependence.…”
Section: Validation Of the Dsmc Codementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The ow eld around micro heat ux sensors [92] plays an important role in the accuracy of the device. Flows through porous media are also considered as rareed ows with many applications in lters and membranes [136]. Read-head sliders in hard disk drives can be designed optimally only if the air ow in the microgap is simulated properly [62].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%