Direct numerical simulations of dynamic gas-solid suspensions

Direct Numerical Simulations of Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flows

Direct numerical simulations of aeolian sand ripples.

Aeolian sand beds exhibit regular patterns of ripples resulting from the interaction between topography and sediment transport. Their characteristics have been so far related to reptation transport caused by the impacts on the ground of grains entrained by the wind into saltation. By means of direct numerical simulations of grains interacting with a wind flow, we show that the instability turns...

Direct Numerical Simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instability

The development of the Rayleigh-Taylor mixing layer is studied using data from an extensive new set of Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), performed on the 0.5 Petaflops, 150k compute cores BG/L Dawn supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This includes a suite of simulations with grid size of 1024 × 4608 and Atwood number ranging from 0.04 to 0.9, in order to examine small dep...

Direct numerical simulations of capillary wave turbulence.

This work presents direct numerical simulations of capillary wave turbulence solving the full three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations of a two-phase flow. When the interface is locally forced at large scales, a statistical stationary state appears after few forcing periods. Smaller wave scales are generated by nonlinear interactions, and the wave height spectrum is found to obey a power law i...

Numerical Methods for Reacting Gas Flow Simulations

In this study, various numerical schemes for transient simulations of 2D laminar reacting gas flows, as typically found in chemical vapor deposition reactors, are proposed and compared. These systems are generally modeled by means of many stiffly coupled elementary gas phase reactions between a large number of reactants and intermediate species. The purpose of this study is to develop robust an...