Drag coefficient compressibility effects

For projectile velocities less than about a third of the speed of sound in air, compressibility effects may be neglected and the drag coefficient is a fimction of Reynolds number alone, defined as... 

In previous work, we have mainly used the DPM model to investigate the effects of the coefficient of normal restitution and the drag force on the formation of bubbles in fluidized beds (Hoomans et al., 1996 Li and Kuipers, 2003, 2005 Bokkers et al., 2004 Van der Floef et al., 2004), and not so much to obtain information on the constitutive relations that are used in the TFMs. In this section, however, we want to present some recent results from the DPM model on the excess compressibility of the solids phase, which is a key quantity in the constitutive equations as derived from the KTGF (see Section IV.D.). The excess compressibility y can be obtained from the simulation by use of the virial theorem (Allen and Tildesley, 1990). 

Nuclear motion drags along the electronic cloud, so that as temperature rises, molecular envelopes oscillate more and more. If the intermolecular potential were perfectly harmonic, the overall volume effect would be nil, because the compressions and expansions would average out but the potential is much steeper on the compression side (Fig. 4.4), so expansion is hindered less than contraction and molecules effectively occupy more and more space as mobility increases. So thermal expansion is very strictly dependent on the shape of the potential curve, that is on the strength and anisotropy of the intermolecular potential, in a typical structure-property relationship. The simple equation that defines the isobaric thermal expansion coefficient a is... 

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