Cartesian grid simulations of bubbling fluidized beds with a horizontal tube bundle

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6220-6231

  Li, Tingwen ^a,b   Dietiker, Jean François ^a,c   Zhang, Yongmin ^d   Shahnam, Mehrdad ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Erosion; Fluidized beds; Gas solids flow; Hydrodynamics; Tube bundle

Indexed keywords

2D SIMULATIONS; 3D SIMULATIONS; BED EXPANSION; BUBBLE BEHAVIOR; BUBBLE CHARACTERISTICS; BUBBLE DISTRIBUTIONS; BUBBLE FRACTIONS; BUBBLE FREQUENCY; BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED; CARTESIAN GRID; CURVED SURFACES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW HYDRODYNAMICS; GAS VELOCITY; GAS-SOLIDS FLOW; HORIZONTAL TUBES; MULTIPHASE FLOW WITH INTERPHASE EXCHANGES; OPEN-SOURCE CODE; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; PHASE FRACTIONS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; TUBE ARRANGEMENTS; TUBE BUNDLE; VELOCITY PROFILES; VOIDAGE;

BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EROSION; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 80053238847     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.08.056     Document Type: Article

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