Title: MODEL OF FRACTAL AGGREGATES INDUCED BY SHEAR.
Authors: Zhanhong WAN; Jiawang CHEN; Zhenjiang YOU; Zhiyuan LI
Abstract: It is an undoubted fact that particle aggregates from marine, aerosol, and engineering systems have fractal structures. In this study, fractal geometry is used to describe the morphology of irregular aggregates. The mean-field theory is employed to solve coagulation kinetic equation of aggregates. The Taylor-expansion method of moments in conjunction with the self-similar fractal characteristics is used to represent the particulate field. The effect of the target fractal dimensions on zeroth-order moment, second-order moment, and geometric standard deviation of the aggregates is explored. Results show that the developed moment method is an efficient and powerful approach to solving such evolution equations.
Subjects: FRACTAL analysis; SHEAR (Mechanics); EVOLUTION equations; STANDARD deviations; FRACTAL dimensions; TAYLOR vortices; ANALYSIS of variance
Publication: Thermal Science, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 5, p1403
ISSN: 0354-9836
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI1305403W

MODEL OF FRACTAL AGGREGATES INDUCED BY SHEAR.

Zhanhong WAN; Jiawang CHEN; Zhenjiang YOU; Zhiyuan LI