2010 年 25 巻 4 号 p. 315-322
Morphology control of aerosol nanoparticles is an important subject in industrial application and the modeling of formation process of nonspherical particles is a key to predict the size and shape of products. In this paper, we overview the recent research trend on the modeling of generation process of nonspherical aerosol particles. Then the basics parameters for describing shape of agglomerates are presented, and various models to predict evolution of size and morphology of nonspherical particles via gas phase process are explained. Furthermore, recent attempts to incorporate the effects of agglomerate structures in the modeling of general dynamic (population balance) equation are described.