International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.51, No.11-12, 2657-2664, 2008
Combined effects of thermophoresis and electrophoresis on particle deposition onto a wavy surface disk
In this paper, the coordinate transformation method is used to analyze the aerosol particle deposition from a stagnation flow onto all axisymmetric wavy disk under to the coupling effects of Brownian diffusion, convection, sedimentation, thermophoresis and electrophoresis. The transformed governing equations obtained by coordinate transformation are solved by the spline alternating-direction implicit method. Numerical results show that electrophoresis will increase the particle deposition effect. It reveals that the thermophoresis effect of the cold wall will induce a driving effort to force particles toward the wall and accelerate the deposition onto the wall. When Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis dominate the particle deposition process, the influence of the lumpy surface geometry will become stronger with the increase of the disk radius, and the mean particle deposition effect of the wavy disk would be less than that of the flat disk. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.