TY - JOUR
TI - A simple moment model to study the effect of diffusion on the coagulation of nanoparticles due to Brownian motion in the free molecule regime
AU - Wang Wenxi
AU - He Qing
AU - Chen Nian
AU - Xie Mingliang
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2012
VL - 16
IS - 5
SP - 1331
EP - 1338
PT - Article
AB - In the study a simple model of coagulation for nanoparticles is developed to  study the effect of diffusion on the particle coagulation in the  one-dimensional domain using the Taylor-series expansion method of moments.  The distributions of number concentration, mass concentration, and particle  average volume induced by coagulation and diffusion are obtained.