New simple correlation formula for the drag coefficient of non-spherical particles

✍ Scribed by Andreas Hölzer; Martin Sommerfeld

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Volume: 184
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-5910
• DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2007.08.021

✦ Synopsis

A simple correlation formula for the standard drag coefficient (i.e. a single stationary particle in a uniform flow) of arbitrary shaped particles is established using a large number of experimental data from the literature and a comprehensive numerical study [A. Hölzer, M. Sommerfeld, IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow, Springer, 2006]. This new correlation formula accounts for the particle orientation over the entire range of Reynolds numbers up to the critical Reynolds number. Such a correlation may be easily used in the frame of Lagrangian computations where also the particle orientation along the trajectory is computed.