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Kinetic Modeling Of Dust Grain Dynamics In Electrostatic Sieving
Computational Particle Mechanics
  • Aaron Berkhoff
  • Easton Ingram
  • Fateme Rezaei
  • Jeffrey D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • David J. Bayless, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • William P. Schonberg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Daoru Han, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

A new kinetic particle modeling framework was developed to investigate electrostatic transport of lunar regolith dust particles with applications to the concept of electrostatic sieving. The new approach is based on kinetic particle dynamics and includes major modules of sampling the particle size distribution, solving electric fields, and tracking motion of charged dust grains. A case study for a concept of electrostatic sieving was chosen to validate the new model. The simulation achieved similar performance of particle size classification as reported in the literature. The new model is computationally efficient (takes a few minutes on a PC-type laptop computer) so that researchers can use it as a design and analysis tool to explore large parameter space for system optimization.

Department(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Second Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Third Department
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Comments
National Science Foundation, Grant OAC-1919789
Keywords and Phrases
  • Electrostatic dust transport,
  • Electrostatic traveling wave,
  • In situ resource utilization,
  • Kinetic modeling,
  • Particle size distribution,
  • Regolith sieving
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2024 Springer, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Publication Date
01 Jan 2024
Citation Information
Aaron Berkhoff, Easton Ingram, Fateme Rezaei, Jeffrey D. Smith, et al.. "Kinetic Modeling Of Dust Grain Dynamics In Electrostatic Sieving" Computational Particle Mechanics (2024) ISSN: 2196-4386; 2196-4378
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daoru-han/42/