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An Explicit Method For The Packing Limit Management In Dense Gas-Solid Flow Cfd Simulations On Both Structured And Unstructured Grids, Alberto Passalacqua, Luca Marmo
An Explicit Method For The Packing Limit Management In Dense Gas-Solid Flow Cfd Simulations On Both Structured And Unstructured Grids, Alberto Passalacqua, Luca Marmo
Alberto Passalacqua
An explicit method for limiting the volume fraction of the dispersed phase in the CFD simulations of dense gas-solid flows is described and validated both on structured and unstructured computational grids. The procedure is based on the excess solids volume correction method proposed by Lettieri et al. (2003), which has been extended in this work to non-uniform grids made of cells having different shape and size. The method has been implemented in OpenFOAM and validated through the simulation of a fludised bed in which the superficial gas velocity has been reduced to a value close to zero.