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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 May;75(5):051309. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.051309. Epub 2007 May 29.

Coarse-grained computations of demixing in dense gas-fluidized beds.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Sung Joon Moon, S Sundaresan, I G Kevrekidis

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering & Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

PMID: 17677056 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.051309

Abstract

We use an "equation-free," coarse-grained computational approach to accelerate molecular dynamics-based computations of demixing (segregation) of dissimilar particles subject to an upward gas flow (gas-fluidized beds). We explore the coarse-grained dynamics of these phenomena in gently fluidized beds of solid mixtures of different densities, typically a slow process for which reasonable continuum models are currently unavailable.

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