General drag correlations for particle-fluid system

Zheng Qi, Shibo Kuang, Liangwan Rong, Kejun Dong, Aibing Yu

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Abstract

Particle-fluid flows are commonly encountered in industrial applications. It is of great importance to understand the fundamentals governing the behavior of such a flow system for better process design, control, and optimization. Generally, the particle-fluid flow behavior is strongly influenced by the interaction forces between fluid and particles. Among the various kinds of particle-fluid interaction forces, the drag force is the most essential. This chapter reviews the modeling of drag force for particle-fluid systems: from single particle to multiple particles, monosize to multisize, spherical to nonspherical, and Newtonian fluid to non-Newtonian fluid. Typical drag correlations in the literature are compared and assessed in terms of physical meaning, consistency, and generality.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBoundary Layer Flows: Modelling, Computation, and Applications of Laminar, Turbulent Incompressible and Compressible Flows
EditorsVallampati Ramachandra Prasad, Valter Silva, João Cardoso
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherIntechOpen
Pages1-27
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)9781803562186
ISBN (Print)9781803562193
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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