Abstract
Dynamic shape factors for regular-shaped agglomerates, such as rectangular parallelepipeds, V- and W-shapes, and others, have been calculated from their measured terminal settling velocities in the Stokes regime. Experimental results have been analyzed by using a new correlation based on two-sphere hydrodynamic resistance as presented in a previous work. Estimated and experimental dynamic shape factors are in good agreement, with deviation smaller than 5%. The correlation can estimate the dynamic shape factor of a double-sized symmetrical agglomerate from its components, and also in a direction with an unstable settling orientation.
† This report was originally printed in Kagaku Kogaku Ronbunshu, 22(1), 98-105 (1996) in Japanese, before being translated into English by KONA Editorial Committee with the permission of the editorial committee of the Soc. Chemical Engineers, Japan.
