A FLUID MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION OF FLUIDIZED BEDS
A FLUID MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION OF FLUIDIZED BEDS
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DOI:
10.1021/i160024a007
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发表时间:
1967-01-01
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通讯作者:
JACKSON, R
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作者:
ANDERSON, TB;JACKSON, R
In principle the motion of a system of particles suspended in a fluid is completely determined by the Navier-Stokes equations, to be satisfied at each point of the fluid, and the Newtonian equations of motion, to be satisfied by each particle. However, when the system of interestcomprises a large number of closely spaced particles, as in a fluidized bed, the problem is far too complicated to permit direct solutionwhen stated in these terms, and for practical purposes it is necessary to seek some method of simplifying it so that it can be described by a relatively small numberof partial differential equations. At present the literature contains several attempts (Hinze, 1962; Jackson, 1963; Murray, 1965; Pigford and Baron, 1965; Soo, 1963; Van Deemter and van der Laan, 1961) to simplify the problem in this way, all of which replace the point mechanical and fluid mechanical variables, which vary rapidly on a scale comparable with the particle spacing, by smoothed variables obtained by averaging over regions large compared with the particle spacing but small compared with the complete system. The resulting equations, therefore, describe the motionof the fluid and particles as though they were interpenetrating continua. A complete solution of thebasic mechanical and fluid mechanical equations would determine quantities such as the fluid-particle interaction forces and the resistance of the assembly to shear, but in the necessarily more superficial view provided bythe continuum models quantities such as these appear as formal terms in the equations, and the form of these terms must be determined empirically. Thus there is ample scope for differences of opinion about the final form of the equations describing the continuum model, and indeed no two sets of equations so far proposed are in complete agreement with each other.If these differences arose solely from different guesses at the forms of the undetermined terms, they might be expected eventually to be resolved as further experimental evidence becomes available. However, the differences run deeper than this and result from radically different forms of the basic momentum balance. It therefore seems desirable to replace the mainly intuitive considerations from which existing con-tinuum equations were constructed by something rather more formal, which will correctly translatethe mechanical basis of the detailed point equations of motion into the continuum model and, at the same time, clearly isolate those terms whose form remains to be determined empirically. There is certainly more than one way of approachingthis problem. Murray (1966), for instance, has applied Boltzmann’s equation, treating the fluid molecules and the solid particles on essentially the same basis despite the disparity in their sizes. Here we adopt a rather different approach, and