This paper presents an experimental study of gas-liquid slug flow on solid particle transport inside a horizontal pipe with two types of experiments conducted. The influence of slug length on solid particle transportation is characterized using high speed photography. Using combined Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) with Refractive Index Matching (RIM) and fluorescent tracers (two-phase oil-air ...

An experimental study concerning particle behaviors in a horizontal dilute swirling flow pneumatic conveying was performed. Measurements of particle velocities and concentration profiles have been carried out using the photographic image technique. From the experimental results, it is found that mean particle velocity of swirling flow pneumatic conveying is lower than that of conventional pneum...

Studies have shown that the limit on the updating formula of velocity in particle swarm optimization (PSO) can produce good performance. Inspired by the logic, we introduce the concept of velocity into bare bones particle swarm optimization (BBPSO), which doesn’t consider the velocity term, hence no constraint on velocity. The velocity term is an additional restriction, and thus it doesn’t dama...

RH water model experiments were carried out in order to evaluate penetrating phenomena of fine particles into liquid. Effects particle velocity, mass flow rate and liquid velocity on deposition surface, amount penetrated investigated. The following results obtained:

Velocity threshold plays an important role in the particle swarm optimization. In this paper, a novel stochastic velocity threshold automation strategy is proposed by incorporated with Lévy probability distribution. As is known, Lévy probability distribution has an infinite second moment and is likely to generate an offspring that is far away from its parent. Therefore, this method employs a la...

This paper proposes a novel method for controlling the convergence rate of a particle swarm optimization algorithm using fractional calculus (FC) concepts. The optimization is tested for several wellknown functions and the relationship between the fractional order velocity and the convergence of the algorithm is observed. The FC demonstrates a potential for interpreting evolution of the algorit...

Many stormwater management practices depend on sedimentation as their primary removal mechanism, but the settling velocity distribution of particles in runoff from a specific watershed is rarely known. A simple and effective method to characterize settling velocity distribution is needed to improve the design of stormwater management practices. Elutriation devices have been used to characterize...

The advantage of using the normal component of the particle velocity rather than the sound pressure in the hologram plane as the input of conventional spatial Fourier transform based near field acoustic holography (NAH) and also as the input of the statistically optimized variant of NAH has recently been demonstrated. This paper examines whether there might be a similar advantage in using the p...

In the early stages of development of a new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), insufficient material quantity is available for addressing processing issues, and it is highly desirable to be able to assess processability issues using the smallest possible powder sample quantity. A good example is milling of new active pharmaceutical ingredients. For particle breakage that is sensitive to st...

This research explores a novel technique, using Genetic Algorithm Particle Pairing (GAPP) to extract threedimensional (3D) velocity fields of complex flows. It is motivated by Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry (HPIV), in which intrinsic speckle noise hinders the achievement of high particle density required for conventional correlation methods in extracting 3D velocity fields, especially i...