title: Multiscale Aspects of Modeling Gas-Phase Nanoparticle Synthesis.
abstract: Aerosol reactors are utilized to manufacture nanoparticles in industrially relevant quantities. The development, understanding and scale-up of aerosol reactors can be facilitated with models and computer simulations. This review aims to provide an overview of recent developments of models and simulations and discuss their interconnection in a multiscale approach. A short introduction of the various aerosol reactor types and gas-phase particle dynamics is presented as a background for the later discussion of the models and simulations. Models are presented with decreasing time and length scales in sections on continuum, mesoscale, molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics models.
authors.affiliation: Particle Technology Laboratory, Institute of Process Engineering Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Buesser
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Gröhn