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5 Experiments 1 0.8 data − ( n water = 1.334 , n particle = 1.519 ) . data − ( n water = 1.334 , n particle = 1.521 ) data − ( n water = 1.334 , n particle = 1.523 ) intensity [a.u.] 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 scattering angle θ ms [deg] Figure 5.18: Coherent backscattering cone of a fluidized bed. To obtain the coherent backscattering cone, three Mie distributions (stretched along the angular axis to match the slope of the first maximum of the data) with different zero levels were subtracted from the measured intensity distribution depicted in fig. 5.17. The angular width of the cone can be read from the graph to an accuracy of about 15%. The graph also shows that the actual distribution of particle sizes in the sample differs slightly from the one measured beforehand – either because the size distribution in the fluidized bed is not homogenous or because the size distribution changed during the experiments – as the first maxima of measured data and Mie theory do not fit. For the evaluation the Mie distribution was therefore stretched to match the measured intensity distribution. This is acceptable as the intensity characteristics are always the same at small angles; however, the zero level of the Mie distribution varies with the input parameters, so that the width of the backscattering cone is known only to an accuracy of about 15% (fig. 5.18). The transport mean free path of a fluidized bed The first backscattering experiments were performed on a fluidized bed of water and soda lime glass spheres with particle diameters around 150 µm. The transport mean free path was expected to be proportional to the distance between the particles in the fluidized bed. So the backscattering was measured for different flux rates in the bed, resulting in particle volume fractions between 39% and 58% (fig. 5.19). However, due to strong fluctuations in the data no real trend in the width of the backscattering cone can be observed – which does not necessarily mean that there is none. Here additional speckles from static particles stuck at the container surface do have a rather disadvantageous impact. 66
5.2 The coherent backscattering cone in high resolution 3.25 x 104 scattering angle θ CCD [deg] 3.2 3.15 3.1 f = 58% f = 49% f = 47% f = 43% f = 39% intensity [a.u.] 3.05 3 2.95 2.9 2.85 2.8 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 Figure 5.19: Backscattering for various volume fractions. The transport mean free path is expected to be proportional to the volume fraction of the fluidized bed. However, due to strong fluctuations in the data no real trend in the width of the backscattering cone can be observed. For the fluidized bed with f = 43% one reads from fig. 5.18 and with eqn. 2.16 a transport mean free path between 50 µm and 60 µm. This would mean that l ∗ is significantly shorter than the diameter of the particles in the fluidized bed, and it stands in strong contrast to reported mean free paths from similar experiments (e.g. [52, 17, 39, 41, 46, 51, 57]), which are all of the order of several particle diameters. As the present data are only first results and the experiments are still ‘work in progress’, there are all kinds of possible explanations for this surprising result, of both theoretical and experimental nature. These will have to be discussed and investigated if further experiments on fluidized beds or similar systems are planned for the future. 67
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Dissertation Coherent Backscatterin
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Ein kurzer Überblick Streuung ist
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Ein kurzer Überblick portweglänge
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Contents Ein kurzer Überblick i Da
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1 Introduction There have been many
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2 Theory In scattering theory, the
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2.2 Single scattering - Mie theory
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2.2 Single scattering - Mie theory
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2.3 Random walk and diffusion scatt
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