A particle motion considering thermophoretic force is simulated by using direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. Thermophoresis phenomena, which occur for a particle size of 1 μm, are treated in this paper. The problem of thermophoresis simulation is computation time which is proportional to the collision frequency. Note that the time step interval becomes much small for the simulation considering the motion of large size particle. Thermophoretic forces calculated by DSMC method were reported, but the particle motion was not computed because of the small time step interval. In this paper, the molecule-particle collision model, which computes the collision between a particle and multi molecules in a collision event, is considered. The momentum transfer to the particle is computed with a collision weight factor, where the collision weight factor means the number of molecules colliding with a particle in a collision event. The large time step interval is adopted by considering the collision weight factor. Furthermore, the large time step interval is about million times longer than the conventional time step interval of the DSMC method when a particle size is 1 μm. Therefore, the computation time becomes about one-millionth. We simulate the graphite particle motion considering thermophoretic force by DSMC-Neutrals (Particle-PLUS neutral module) with above the collision weight factor, where DSMC-Neutrals is commercial software adopting DSMC method. The size and the shape of the particle are 1 μm and a sphere, respectively. The particle-particle collision is ignored. We compute the thermophoretic forces in Ar and H2 gases of a pressure range from 0.1 to 100 mTorr. The results agree well with Gallis' analytical results. Note that Gallis' analytical result for continuum limit is the same as Waldmann's result.
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28 July 2014
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July 22 2014
Particle behavior simulation in thermophoresis phenomena by direct simulation Monte Carlo method
Takao Wada
Takao Wada
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Wave Front Co., Ltd.
, Queen's Tower B, F12, 2-3-3 Minatomirai, Nishi-Ku, Yokohama City 220-6112, Japan
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Electronic mail: wada@wavefront.co.jp.
J. Appl. Phys. 116, 044502 (2014)
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Received:
March 10 2014
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July 09 2014
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Takao Wada; Particle behavior simulation in thermophoresis phenomena by direct simulation Monte Carlo method. J. Appl. Phys. 28 July 2014; 116 (4): 044502. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4890712
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