Numerical Simulation of Aerated Powder Consolidation
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چکیده
When a fine powder is dumped into a silo, the gas trapped by the particles will slowly escape by diffusing through the material. The corresponding uneven gas pressure distribution creates a body force that is taken into account through Darcy’s law. By using spatial averaging, the formulation, even though essentially one-dimensional in space, includes effects due the geometry of the container. An efficient and robust numerical scheme based on a DAE formulation is proposed and implemented. Various computational results are presented and discussed to establish the validity of the approach.
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