Affiliations: [a] São Paulo State University, Rua
Cristóvão Colombo, 2265 – São José do Rio
Preto-SP, 15054-000, Brazil | [b] College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, 310027, People Republic of China
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: José Márcio Machado,
São Paulo State University, Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265,
Jardim Nazareth São José do Rio Preto-SP 15054-000 Brazil.
E-mail: jmarcio@ibilce.unesp.br
Abstract: This work presents simulations of the Electrofluid Dynamic energy
conversion process in slender channel devices having very small particles (in
both micro and nano scales) as charge carriers. Solutions are discussed for a
system composed by coupled differential equations, which includes the equation
for the total current along the channel, the equations for total energy and
momentum of the mixture (gas and solid particles), the continuity equation and
the equations for energy and momentum of a single particle. Results for
suspended particles of higher diameters have been previously published in the
Literature, but the simulations here presented exhibit an appreciable increase
in the values for output currents.
Keywords: EFD energy conversion, particulate systems, nanoparticles
