Detailed understanding of flow physics on the flow over a high-speed train (HST) can be accomplished using the vast information obtained from numerical simulation. Accuracy of any simulation in solving and analyzing problems related to fluid flow is important since it measures the reliability of the results. This paper describes a numerical simulation setup for the flow around a simplified mode...

Design and Optimization of OpenFOAM-based CFD Applications for Modern Hybrid and Heterogeneous HPC Platforms Amani AlOnazi The progress of high performance computing platforms is dramatic, and most of the simulations carried out on these platforms result in improvements on one level, yet expose shortcomings of current CFD packages. Therefore, hardware-aware design and optimizations are crucial ...

The population balance model which was developed and verified in the FeatFlow environment has been implemented into OpenFOAM software package. Sulzer CompaxTM mixer is numerically studied with the developed computational tool. The numerical results have been compared with experimental ones and the results have been found to be in good agreement. An interesting experimental finding, decreasing S...

Heat-pipe-cooled microreactors (HPRs) have advantages such as a compact design, easy transportation, and improved system reliability stability. The core of an HPR consists fuel rods heat pipes in monolith, which is solid block structure containing many holes for the pipes. When designing HPR, high thermal stress reactivity feedback owing to expansion are important considerations. Therefore, hig...

In order to solve the simulation problem of steady compressible turbulent combustion, a small scale high performance parallel cluster system was designed. It based on the open source CFD platform OpenFOAM, and was used to to simulate the bluff-body stabilized Sydney flame hm1 which refers to the detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms of coal gas and air combustion reaction. The flow of combustion...

Column liquid chromatography (CLC) is a widely used unit operation in biotech and chemical process engineering for purification of target products (e.g. proteins for pharmaceutical agents) from unwanted substances. An aqueous solution containing the mixture of molecules is forced to flow through the chromatography column which is filled with porous particles (beads). While transport through the...

In this article, the development of high-order semi-implicit interpolation schemes for convection terms on unstructured grids is presented. It is based on weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) reconstructions which can be applied to the evaluation of any field in finite volumes using its known cell-averaged values. Here, the algorithm handles convex cells in arbitrary three-dimensional me...