Prediction of radial distribution function of particles in a gas-solid fluidized bed using discrete hard-sphere model

Flow behavior of particles in a two-dimensional bubbling fluidized bed is predicted by using discrete hardsphere model for particle-particle collision. Quantities of radial distribution functions of monosized particles, binary-sized particles, and binary density particles are obtained. Experimentally or theoretically proposed formulations for the radial distribution functions are evaluated based on our numerically predicted results. For monosized particles, the simulated radial distribution functions are in agreement with computed results from both Bagnold equation (1954) and Ma and Ahmadi (1986) equation. For the binary mixture with the different diameters but identical density, the pair radial distribution functions proposed by Boublik (1970) and Mansoori et al. (1971) agree with simulated data. For binary mixture of different densities, a modified equation of the pair radial distribution function is proposed to correlate from our simulation results.