TY - JOUR
TI - The verification of the Taylor-expansion moment method in solving aerosol breakage
AU - Yu Ming-Zhou
AU - Zhang Kai
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2012
VL - 16
IS - 5
SP - 1424
EP - 1428
PT - Article
AB - The combination of the method of moment, characterizing the particle  population balance, and the computational fluid dynamics has been an emerging  research issue in the studies on the aerosol science and on the multiphase  flow science. The difficulty of solving the moment equation arises mainly  from the closure of some fractal moment variables which appears in the  transform from the non-linear integral-differential population balance  equation to the moment equations. Within the Taylor-expansion moment method,  the breakage-dominated Taylor-expansion moment equation is first derived here  when the symmetric fragmentation mechanism is involved. Due to the high  efficiency and the high precision, this proposed moment model is expected to  become an important tool for solving population balance equations.