With the growth of available computational resource, CFD–DEM (computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method) becomes an increasingly promising and feasible approach for the study of sediment transport. Several existing CFD–DEM solvers are applied in chemical engineering and mining industry. However, a robust CFD–DEM solver for the simulation of sediment transport is still desirable. In t...

We perform 3D incompressible two-phase flow simulations of rising droplets. Based on a similar 2D benchmark, a 3D benchmark configuration with two test cases is formulated in which we compare the flow solvers DROPS, NaSt3DGPF and OpenFOAM. All codes adopt different numerical techniques. We define several quantities of interest and investigate their temporal evolution in both test cases. For mos...

Dynamics of two droplets interactions on a substrate (droplet impact on a sessile droplet) are numerically investigated using OpenFOAM. The impact speed, location of the impacting droplet, viscosity and surface tension were varied in the numerical studies. We found that when the surface tension dominates the flow, the mass canter of two droplets moves to impacting droplet side. When the inertia...

To overcome this difficulty, various hybrid LES/RANS approaches have been developed, where RANS (Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes) equations are solved in the near-wall region while LES is only conducted in the free-shear region away from the wall [Fröhlich and von Terzi 2008]. One of the methods to address this issue is a consistent framework for turbulence modeling, where the filtered and Reyn...

The work presented in this thesis documents the simulation of wave induced forces on semi submerged horizontal cylinders in OpenFOAM, utilizing the blending method for generation and damping of waves. The blending method is not included with OpenFOAM and thus required development before it could be employed. Both a linear Airy wave model and a fifth order stokes wave model are implemented. The ...

This thesis covers two main topics. The first is the comparison between the Reynoldsaveraged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation and the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of high injection pressure diesel sprays under non-evaporating or evaporating conditions. The second topic is the comparison of the fuel behavior in the spray process between the hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and the conventional EN ...

The idea to simulate pedestrian flow by the application of fluid dynamics equations has a certain history in that field. This approach is based on the application of partial differential equations, which makes it a macroscopic method. The need to simulate several different species of pedestrians is a need from the start, which has not been matched very well by numerical simulations of the maros...

This paper presents an approach to design, implement and deploy a simulation platform based on distributed workflows. It supports the smooth integration of existing software, e.g., Matlab, Scilab, Python, OpenFOAM, Paraview and user-defined programs. Additional features include the support for application-level fault-tolerance and exception-handling, i.e., resilience, and the orchestrated execu...