TY - JOUR
TI - Model of fractal aggregates induced by shear
AU - Wan Zhanhong
AU - Chen Jiawang
AU - You Zhenjiang
AU - Li Zhiyuan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2013
VL - 17
IS - 5
SP - 1403
EP - 1408
PT - Article
AB - It is an undoubted fact that particle aggregates from marine, aerosol, and  engineering systems have fractal structures. In this study, fractal geometry  is used to describe the morphology of irregular aggregates. The mean-field  theory is employed to solve coagulation kinetic equation of aggregates. The  Taylor-expansion method of moments in conjunction with the self-similar  fractal characteristics is used to represent the particulate field. The  effect of the target fractal dimensions on zeroth-order moment, second-order  moment, and geometric standard deviation of the aggregates is explored.  Results show that the developed moment method is an efficient and powerful  approach to solving such evolution equations.