Paszkál Papp
Spatial separation of precipitate in reactive mediaAbstract
Nowadays, one of the aims of chemical nonlinear dynamics is to understand the
governing forces behind precipitate pattern formation in reactive media. In our
study, we are investigating precipitate pattern formation and separation in
confined geometry where fluid convection is coupled with a precipitation reaction
leading to the formation of solid particles.
A colloidal intermediate state forms first, followed by the appearance of solid
phase with nonlinearity arising from the precipitation growth. Because of the
particle density and their continuous growth, the interaction between the fluid and
the solid phase cannot be neglected. The fluid motion, characterized by the
appropriate flow and concentrations fields, is described by solving the
Navier-Stokes equation using the PIMPLE method of OpenFOAM software package. The
trajectories of solid particles are followed by Lagrangian particle tracking.
With this model we are capable of not only reproducing experiments, but also
calculating data which is experimentally difficult to measure.
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