Mass Transfer in Creeping Flow Past Periodic Arrays of Cylinders

Abstract

Creeping flow past a square and an equilateral triangular array of cylinders and mass transfer between the fluid and the surface of the cylinders were studied theoretically. A numerical solution for the drag coefficient of the cylinders was obtained and found to be in good agreement with the asymptotic analytical solutions for very small and very large values of the dimensionless pitch respectively. A numerical solution for the Sherwood number was obtained as a function of the Peclet number, the dimensionless pitch, and the number of rows of cylinders in square and triangular arrays. Theoretical predictions for the drag coefficient of the cylinders and the Sherwood number were compared with approximate analytical solutions based on the free-surface model by Happel. © 1987, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan. All rights reserved.