Improvement and validation of discrete-sectional method based code for fast reactor aerosol dynamics

S Sivakumar, AJ Sudha, V Subramanian… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
The study of the dynamics of aerosols produced during a severe accident is vital to the
safety analysis of a Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR). Sodium leakage into the …

An Eulerian CFD study for aerosol formation in a turbulent jet using the sectional method and a size-dependent particle surface tension

D Mitrakos, M Pilou, S King, A Dehbi - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2025 - Elsevier
An Eulerian aerosol dynamics and transport model embedded in a general-purpose
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code is presented. The model employs the sectional …

Open-source modelling of aerosol dynamics and computational fluid dynamics: Bipolar and unipolar diffusion charging and photoelectric charging

M Woo, MA Schriefl, M Knoll, AM Boies… - Computer Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electric charging is one of the essential aerosol dynamic mechanisms and is harnessed for
detection, capture and control of ultrafine aerosol particles in a range of devices. For …

[PDF][PDF] Improving the numerical simulation of soot aerosol formation in flames

J Morán - 2021 - researchgate.net
Soot particles have been identified as the second largest contributor to global warming (just
after carbon dioxide). Also, these particles can penetrate deeply into the lungs and may be …

coronaChargingFoam: An OpenFOAM based solver for multi-physical simulations of direct unipolar diffusion charging of aerosol particles

W Yang, B Fang, B Liu - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion charging of ultrafine aerosol particles is widely used in various fields and
understanding the multi-physical phenomena during the charging processes is critical to the …

Evaluating the solution of nucleation and condensational growth by a sectional moving grid–remapping method

D Mitrakos, A Vouros - Aerosol Science and Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, a sectional moving grid-remapping method for the numerical solution of
condensational growth is evaluated. The main novelty of the method is linked with the …

Soot formation and evolution characteristics of premixed hydrocarbon flames

X Jiang - 2022 - theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk
Soot particles formed during the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons not only reduce the
efficiency of many combustion devices but also adversely affect the global climate, air quality …

Announcement of the 2023 Journal of Aerosol Science Excellence in Research Award (JASER) Recipient

C Hogan - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2024 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
In 2020, motivated by the celebration of 50 years of publication of the Journal of Aerosol
Science, the JAS editors, editorial advisory board, and publisher elected to establish the …

[PDF][PDF] Wet spinning fibres from imogolite and carbon nanotubes

JF Moore - 2022 - core.ac.uk
As 1D materials with high intrinsic strength and stiffness, nanotubes are promising building
blocks for the next generation of fibres in structural composites. This thesis explores wet …

Simulations of Nanoparticle Synthesis in Laminar Stagnation Flames

EJ Bringley - 2021 - repository.cam.ac.uk
A new implementation of a multidimensional solver for studying nanoparticle synthesis in
laminar flames is presented. The governing equations are convective-diffusive-reactive …