Improvements of particle near-wall velocity and erosion predictions using a commercial CFD code

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0313031-0313039

  Zhang, Yongli ^a   McLaury, Brenton S ^a   Shirazi, Siamack A ^a  

^a The University of Tulsa   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Erosion modeling; Particle tracking; Particle wall interaction

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CFD CODES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; EROSION MODELING; EROSION PREDICTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES; LARGE PARTICLES; NEAR-WALL; NEAR-WALL REGION; NEAR-WALL VELOCITY PROFILE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE IMPACT; PARTICLE IMPACT VELOCITIES; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PARTICLE RADII; PARTICLE SIZE EFFECT; PARTICLE TRACKING; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; PARTICLE-WALL INTERACTIONS; PIPE GEOMETRY; PIPE WALLS; SIMULATION RESULT; SMALL PARTICLES; SOLID PARTICLE EROSION; TURBULENT VELOCITY; TURBULENT VELOCITY FIELDS; TURBULENT VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VELOCITY FIELD; WALL FUNCTION;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PIPE; VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955259801     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3077139     Document Type: Article

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