Coarse-grained computations of demixing in dense gas-fluidized beds

Publication Year
2007

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

We use an "equation-free," coarse-grained computational approach to accelerate molecular dynamics-based computations of demixing (segregation) of dissimilar particles subject to an upward gas flow (gas-fluidized beds). We explore the coarse-grained dynamics of these phenomena in gently fluidized beds of solid mixtures of different densities, typically a slow process for which reasonable continuum models are currently unavailable.

Journal
Physical Review E
Volume
75
Issue
5
Pages
051309
Date Published
05/2007
ISBN
1539-3755
Short Title
Phys. Rev. E