Drag force friction

Dimensional analysis of the forces establishes that the hydrodynamic drag force (friction force and pressure force exerted on the particle) takes on the following form, which involves the undetermined function 3i ... 

In a recent version of the Tobolsky and Eyring formulation, the rate of mechanochemical degradation was considered as a Thermally Activated Barrier to Scission (TABS) process. The elastic energy function f(v /) was explicitly considered in terms of the frictional hydrodynamic drag force acting over the entire macromolecule [100]. A more detailed account of this model will be presented in Sect. 5.1. 

For dense gas-solid two-phase flows, a four-way coupling is required however, the coupling between particles is managed in a natural way in DPMs. The task is, therefore, only to find a two-way coupling between the gas and the solid phases, which satisfies Newton s third law. Basically, the gas phase exerts two forces on particle a a drag force Vda due the fluid-solid friction at the surface of the spheres, and a force Vpa = -Va Vp due to the pressure gradient Vp in the gas phase. We will next describe these forces in more detail, along with the procedure to calculate void fraction, which is an essential quantity in the equations for the gas-solid interaction. 

Consider fluid flowing steadily through a packed bed of height L and unit cross-sectional area. A pressure drop AP/occurs in the bed because of frictional viscous and drag forces. Let the resistance per unit area of surface be rb. A force balance across unit cross-sectional area gives... 

The friction factor, which is plotted against the modified Reynolds number, is Pi/pu, where R is the component of the drag force per unit area of particle surface in the direction of motion. R can be related to the properties of the bed and pressure gradient as follows. Considering the forces acting on the fluid in a bed of unit cross-sectional area and thickness /, the volume of particles in the bed is /(I — e) and therefore the total surface is 5/(1 — e). Thus the resistance force is R SH — e). This force on the fluid must be equal to that produced by a pressure difference of AP across the bed. Then, since the free cross-section of fluid is equal to e ... 

This relation applies from the initial expansion of the bed until transport of solids takes place. There may be some discrepancy between the calculated and measured minimum velocities for fluidisation. This may be attributable to channelling, as a result of which the drag force acting on the bed is reduced, to the action of electrostatic forces in case of gaseous fluidisation—particularly important in the case of sands—to agglomeration which is often considerable with small particles, or to friction between the fluid and the walls of the containing vessel. This last factor is of greatest importance with beds of small diameters. Leva et al.<4 introduced a term, (GF — GE)/ GF, which is a fluidisation efficiency, in which GF is the minimum flowrate required to produce fluidisation and G / is the rate required to produce the initial expansion of the bed. 

A particle drag coefficient Cd can now be defined as the drag force divided by the product of the dynamic pressure acting on the particle (i.e. the velocity head expressed as an absolute pressure) and the cross-sectional area of the particle. This definition is analogous to that of a friction factor in conventional fluid flow. Hence... 

The frictional drag force lakes the normal form ... 

Drag Effects. Dislocations gliding in real crystals encounter dissipative frictional forces which oppose their motion. These frictional forces generally limit the dislocation velocity to values well below the relativistic range. Such drag forces originate from a variety of sources and are difficult to analyze quantitatively. 

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