Drag coefficients of irregularly shaped particles
Drag coefficients of irregularly shaped particles
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DOI:
10.1016/j.powtec.2003.10.002
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发表时间:
2004-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
S. Tran-Cong;E. Michaelides
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作者:
S. Tran-Cong;E. Michaelides
The steady-state free-fall conditions of isolated groups of ordered packed spheres moving through Newtonian fluids have been studied experimentally. Measurements of the drag coefficients are reported in this paper for six different geometrical shapes, including isometric, axisymmetric, orthotropic, plane and elongated conglomerates of spheres. From these measurements, a new and accurate empirical correlation for the drag coefficient, CD, of variously shaped particles has been developed. This correlation has been formulated in terms of the Reynolds number based on the particle nominal diameter, Re, the ratio of the surface-equivalent-sphere to the nominal diameters, dA/dn, and the particle circularity, c. The predictions have been tested against both the experimental data for CDcollected in this study and the ones reported in previous works for cubes, rectangular parallelepipeds, tetrahedrons, cylinders and other shapes. A good agreement has been observed for the variously shaped agglomerates of spheres as well as for the regularly shape particles, over the ranges 0.15<Re<1500, 0.80<dA/dn<1.50 and 0.4<c<1.0.