Coagulation/Flocculation of colloidal particles

Brownian coagulation with an attractive interaction

  • Simulation parameters
    • Input UDF file: fileaggregate.udf
    • CFD Lattice: 128 x 128 x 128 mesh
    • Number of Particles: N = 500
    • Diameter of Particles: D = 8 mesh
    • Volume Fraction: Φ = 0.064
    • Temperature: kBT = 5
    • Pair potential: LJ like 24:12 power with\epsilon=25k_BT and \sigma=D
    • Number of Iteration Steps: 100,000

Flocks under weak shear flow

  • Simulation parameters
    • Input UDF file: fileaggregate_LE.zip
    • CFD Lattice: 128 x 128 x 128 mesh
    • Number of Particles: N = 500
    • Diameter of Particles: D = 8 mesh
    • Volume Fraction: Φ = 0.064
    • Temperature: kBT = 5
    • Pair potential: LJ like 24:12 power with\epsilon=25k_BT and \sigma=D
    • Number of Iteration Steps: 100,000
    • Shear rate: 0.005

Flocks under weak shear flow

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  • Simulation parameters
    • Input UDF file: fileaggregate_LE_2.zip
    • CFD Lattice: 128 x 128 x 128 mesh
    • Number of Particles: N = 500
    • Diameter of Particles: D = 8 mesh
    • Volume Fraction: Φ = 0.064
    • Temperature: kBT = 5
    • Pair potential: LJ like 24:12 power with\epsilon=25k_BT and \sigma=D
    • Number of Iteration Steps: 100,000
    • Shear rate: 0.05

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