Title

Drag Correlation for Motion of Drops on Fibers

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2008

Abstract

The motion of drops on fibers is important to industrial applications such as drop coalescence and drainage in fibrous filter media. This paper reports on experimental results using a Couette flow experimental device to measure drop velocities on fibers resulting from gas flow parallel to the fiber axis. A drag coefficient was defined and correlated to the data. Acoustic vibrations from a speaker were used to initiate drop motion. A second correlation was fitted to the data to predict the fraction of the drops that move in a given flow field.

Publication Title

Separation and Purification Technology

Volume

60

Issue

1

First Page

6

Last Page

13

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