CFD-DEM (Computational Fluid Dynamics – Discrete Element Modelling) is a twophase flow numerical modelling technique, where the Eulerian method is used for the fluid and the Lagrangian method for the particles. The two phases are coupled by a fluid-particle interaction force (i.e. drag force) which is computed using a correlation. In a two-phase flow, one critical parameter is the voidage (or v...

Although two-phase flow is frequently encountered in various location of the process plants, there is no a general accepted and verified two-phase flow model that may be used to size lines for such conditions. An obvious example is condensate water return lines. The API method that used in this study is based on the homogeneous equilibrium flow assumption, that is, equal velocity and equal temp...

Gas-particle flows can be described by a kinetic equation for the particle phase coupled with the Navier−Stokes equations for the fluid phase through a momentum exchange term. The direct solution of the kinetic equation is prohibitive for most applications due to the high dimensionality of the space of independent variables. A viable alternative is represented by moment methods, where moments o...

A simulation scheme is proposed for flowfield and radiation analysis of solid rocket exhaust plumes at high altitude. Several recently developed numerical procedures are used to determine properties of the gas and condensed phase Al2O3 particles, and spectrally resolved plume radiation calculations are performed using a Monte Carlo ray trace model. Simulations are run for a representative plume...

Synergistic interaction between cavitation bubbles and particles is critical for the operational performance of hydro turbines. The jet dynamics near wall have been extensively investigated; however, are not clear. In present paper, bubble a spherical particle numerically investigated based on compressible two-phase flow solver considering effects heat transfer mass phases. Furthermore, effect ...

Hydrodynamics of gas-particle two-phase turbulent flow in a circulating fluidized bed riser is studied experimentally by Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and numerically with the use of a 3D discrete hard sphere particle model (DPM). Mean particle velocities and RMS velocities are obtained and the influence of turbulence on the flow is investigated. The experimental data are analyzed and compar...

Achievement of a good performance in a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of a particulate flow has been restricted to a low particle Reynolds number below a few hundreds due to the limitation of computational load by using a fine grid (Harada and Gotoh, 2008). Hence, in this study, to perform numerical simulations in higher particle Reynolds numbers, a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) by Smagorinsky...

Numerical modeling of a complete powder coating process is carried out to understand the gas-particle two-phase flow field inside a powder coating booth and results of the numerical simulations are compared with experimental data to validate the numerical results. The flow inside the coating booth is modeled as a three-dimensional turbulent continuous gas flow with solid powder particles as a d...