Comparison of the donor cell method to other computational techniques for the duct electrostatic precipitator

Abstract As modelling capabilities and computational resources have become more powerful and accessible, the duct electrostatic precipitator has been readdressed in the light of more sophisticated physical and numerical descriptions of its behavior. Some recent advances are discussed in this paper, which focuses attention on how the transport phenomena of migration, convection, and turbulent diffusion have been approximated by the donor cell technique, and compares this model with other computational approaches.

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