General Information

Textbook:  None
Instructor:  G. Ahmadi  (CAMP 267, 268-2322)
Office Hours:  MW 1:00 - 3:15 p.m., T 1:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Course Website:   http://www.clarkson.edu/projects/crcd/me437/
Prerequisites:  ME326 or equivalent.

Course Objectives 

1. To provide a fundamentals of aerosol transport deposition and removal in laminar flows.
2. To provide a fundamentals of particles adhesion and removal from surfaces.
3. To familiarize the students with the computational modeling of particle resuspension in laminar flows.
4. To familiarize the students with the industrial applications of aerosols.

Course Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1:

• Students will be able to formulate and solve aerosol tranport and deposition in laminar flows.

Outcome 2:

• Students will be able to analyze adhesion and removal of micro- and nano- particles.

Outcome 3:

• Students will become familiar with computational fluid mechanics and particle trajectory analysis procedures.
• Students will demonstrate using the FLUENT Code for solving aerosol transport in laminar flows.
• Student will become familiar with the experimental procedure for particle adhesion and removal analysis.

Outcome 4:

• Students will become familiar with the microcontamination problems in microelectronic and imaging industries.
• Students will become familiar with surface cleaning including ultrsonic cleaning.

Evaluation Methods

• Exam 1:   25%   (October 22, 2002, CAMP 178, 6:30-8:00 pm)
• Final Exam: 30%   (Final Exam week)
• Computational Projects   30%
• Laboratory work   5%
• Homework   10%

Course Description

ME 437 Fluid Mechanics of Aerosol Dispersion R-3, C-3.

Prerequisites: ME 326 or equivalent.

Review of viscous flow theory. Creeping flows around a sphere. Drag and lift forces acting on particles. Wall effects and nonspherical particles. Diffusion of aerosols in laminar flows. Brownian motion and Langevin equation. Mass diffusion in pipe and boundary layer flows. Dispersion of particles in turbulent flows. Turbulent diffusion and wall deposition of aerosols. Effects of electrostatics, van der Waals and other surface forces. Computational aspects of aerosol dispersion in laminar and turbulent flows. Particle removal and resuspension from surfaces. Coagulation of aerosols due to Brownian movement, presence of a shear field and turbulence. Applications to microcontamination control, air pollution, and particle deposition in human lung.

Exam and Homework Policies

Exam Policy

Homework Policy

Homeworks will be collected on every Monday. The homework will be graded and returned to the students.

References

1. W.C. Hinds, Aerosol Science and Technology, Wiley (1983, 1999).
2. J. Happel and H. Brenner, Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics, Martinus Nijhoff (1983).
3. N.A. Fuchs, The Mechanics of Aerosols, Dover (1989).
4. V.G. Levich, Physicochemicals Hydrodynamics, Prentice-Hall (1962).
5. F. White, Viscous Flow, McGraw Hill (1974).
6. R.L. Panton, Incompressible Flow, John Wiley (1984).
7. H. Schlichting, Boundary Layer Theory, McGraw Hill (1979).
8. J.O. Hinze, Turbulence, McGraw Hill (1975).
9. H. Tennekes and J.L. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence, MIT Press (1981).
10. G.M. Hidy, Aerosols, Academic Press (1984).
11. G.M. Hidy and J.R. Brook, The Dynamics of Aerocolloididal Systems, Pergamon Press (1970).
12. Papavergos and Hedley, Chem. Eng. Rs. Des., Vol. 62, September 1984, pp. 275-295.
13. S.K. Friedlander, Smoke, Dust and Haze, Wiley (1977).
14. J. H. Vincent, Aerosol Science for Industrial Hygienists, Pergamon Press (1995).