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.
Recommended Citation
A. Berkhoff et al., "Kinetic Modeling of Dust Grain Dynamics in Electrostatic Sieving," Computational Particle Mechanics, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 2035 - 2042, Springer, Oct 2024.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40571-024-00729-8
Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Second Department
Materials Science and Engineering
Third Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Fourth Department
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Electrostatic dust transport; Electrostatic traveling wave; In situ resource utilization; Kinetic modeling; Particle size distribution; Regolith sieving
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
2196-4386; 2196-4378
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2025 Springer, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Oct 2024
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Comments
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant DMS-2111039