Measurements of the gravitational collision cross section of aerosols

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:5854417

Haley, C P; Loyalka, S K; Warder, Jr, R C; Tompson, R V; Podzimek, J ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (United States)

It has long been recognized that the evolution of high concentrations of aerosols is strongly influenced by coagulation due to settling (gravitational coagulation). It has also been known that the models currently in use for this process are based on simple estimations and lack a firm theoretical/experimental basis. The problem of gravitational coagulation has, however, been studied extensively, theoretically, and recently, expressions useful in large computer programs have also become available. Experimental studies of the gravitational coagulation, however, have been based either on similitude (steel/aluminum spheres in glycerine) or integral experiments, and these do not provide the correct basis for verification of the theoretical results. The authors have therefore carried out new experimental measurements of the gravitational collision cross section by using an electrodynamic balance. An aerosol particle is suspended in the balance, a measured stream of monodisperse particles flows over the particle, and the increase is measured in the suspended particle size in a given time interval by using the drag force and instability method.

• OSTI ID: 5854417
• Report Number(s): CONF-910603-; CODEN: TANSA
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States), Vol. 63; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Orlando, FL (United States), 2-6 Jun 1991; ISSN 0003-018X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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