摘要
Theprocessofsinteringofseveralparticlesincontactviaaviscousflowmechanismwasstudiednumericallyusingcomputationalfluiddynamics.Thevolumeoffluidtechniquewithinafinitevolumemethodwasusedtosimulatebridgeformationbetweenparticles,aswellasdensificationatdifferentconfigurationalstatesoftheparticles.Themethodwasvalidatedbycomparingresultsfortwo-particlecoalescencewiththeliterature.Theeffectofthenumberofparticlesonagglomerationkineticswasstudiedbycomparingbridgegrowthrateforsystemshavingdifferentnumbersofparticlesinachain.Althoughincreasingthenumberofparticlesledtoadecreaseinthelocalbridgegrowthrateandtoslowerequilibration,therewerenomarkeddifferences,whentheoverallvolumeofthesystemwasconsidered.Theeffectofcoordinationnumberonthedensificationratewasdirectlystudiedbychangingthenumberofparticlesincontactwithacentralparticle.Increasingthecoordinationnurnbeccausedtheoverallrateofdensificationtoincrease,butdelayedequilibration,analogoustostericeffects.Thesefindingsdescribetheconfigurationalstateofagglomerates,typicalofmesoscalecaking.Inamulti-scalestudy,theycanbeusedtocharacterizecakingatabulkscaletopartlyaddressthelackofexperimentaldatainthisfield.
出版日期
2019年02月12日（中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
