General Information

Course Website: https://sites.clarkson.edu/gahmadi/courses/me537/
Co-requisites:  ME527 or equivalent

Course Objectives  

1. To provide a fundamental understanding of aerosol transport deposition and removal in laminar flows.
2. To provide a fundamental understanding of particles adhesion and removal from surfaces.
3. Toprovide an understanding of the computational modeling of particle resuspension in laminar flows.
4. To provide a fundamental understanding of the industrial, environmental, and biomedical 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:

• Studentswill demonstrate a fundamental understanding of computational fluid mechanics and particle trajectory analysis procedures.
• Students will demonstrate using the ANSYS-Fluent Code for solving aerosol transport in laminar flows.
• Students will become familiar with the experimental procedure for particle adhesion and removal analysis.

Outcome 4:

• Students will understand the micro-contamination problems in microelectronic and imaging industries.
• Students will understand the basics of surface cleaning, including ultrasonic cleaning.
• Students will demonstrate the application of aerosol transport and dispersion in at least one industrial, environmental, or biomedical applications.

Evaluation Methods

• Exam 1:   25%  
• Final Exam: 35%  
• Computational and Laboratory Projects   30%
• Homework   10%

Course Description

ME 537 Fluid Mechanics of Aerosol Dispersion R-3, C-3.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites: ME 527 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. (Given When Needed)

Exam and Homework Policies

Exam Policy

Homework Policy

References

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15. J. H. Vincent, Aerosol Science for Industrial Hygienists, Pergamon Press (1995).
16. Simulation-Cornell
17. Ansys-Student package