Open-source modelling of aerosol dynamics and computational fluid dynamics: nodal method for nucleation, coagulation, and surface growth
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Author(s)
Woo, Mino
Nishida, Robert T
Schriefl, Mario A
Stettler, Marc EJ
Boies, Adam M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Understanding formation, growth and transport of aerosols is critical to processes ranging from cloud formation to disease transmission. In this work, a numerical algorithm of aerosol dynamics including nucleation, coagulation, and surface growth was coupled with flow and heat transfer equations enabling the solution of three-dimensional multi-physics aerosol processes in an open-source platform. The general dynamic equation was solved by a nodal method where the particle size distribution was represented by a finite number of nodes. The models were verified by comparing four test cases, (1) pure coagulation, (2) nucleation and coagulation, (3) pure surface growth, and (4) a general dynamic equation that includes the three mechanisms provided in literature. A high temperature aerosol flow in a cooled pipe is chosen as a tutorial case of coupled computational aerosol and fluid dynamics. The aerosolGDEFoam code is available at https://openaerosol.sourceforge.io and can be further modified under GNU general public licence.
Date Issued
2021-04-01
Date Acceptance
2020-11-30
Citation
Computer Physics Communications, 2021, 261
ISSN
0010-4655
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Computer Physics Communications
Volume
261
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Physics, Mathematical
Computer Science
Physics
Aerosol dynamics
Open-source computer code
General dynamic equation
Computational fluid dynamics
Nucleation
Coagulation
Surface growth
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 107765
Date Publish Online
2020-12-11