(77f) Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Vibrated Gas-Fluidized Particles
AIChE Annual Meeting
2019
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting
Particle Technology Forum
Fundamentals of Fluidization
Monday, November 11, 2019 - 10:10am to 10:30am
A Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability1,2 forms in a binary set of particles of different density subject to upward gas flow and vertical vibration3. âFingersâ and âbubblesâ of light particles rise through heavy particles despite a lack of effective surface tension between the two types of particles. CFD-DEM simulations show that gas flow channels through fingers of lighter, larger particles due to a higher permeability of these particles to gas flow, locally increasing drag and causing these fingers to grow3. We demonstrate that the same physical mechanism causes an isolated âbubbleâ of light grains to rise and an isolated âdropletâ of heavy grains to break up forming a binary branching pattern3. We explore how the combination of vibration and gas flow causes a bubble-free fluidization state in Geldart Group B and D particles and how this state can lead to other structured flow patterns.
References
(1) Rayleigh, J. W. S. B. Scientific Papers: 1881-1887; University Press, 1900.
(2) Taylor, G. I. The Instability of Liquid Surfaces When Accelerated in a Direction Perpendicular to Their Planes. I. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 1950, 201 (1065), 192â196.
(3) McLaren, C.; Kovar, T. M.; Penn, A.; Müller, C. R.; Boyce, C. M. Gravitational Instabilities in Binary Granular Materials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019, Accepted.