Open-source MFIX-DEM software for gas-solids flows: Part II - Validation studies

Powder Technology

Volumn 220, Issue , 2012, Pages 138-150

  Li, Tingwen ^a,b   Garg, Rahul ^a,b   Galvin, Janine ^c   Pannala, Sreekanth ^d  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Computational gas solids flow; Discrete element method (DEM); Eulerian Eulerian (EE); Lagrangian Eulerian (LE); Multiphase flows

Indexed keywords

BINARY PARTICLE MIXTURES; BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED; CFD MODELS; CHARGE PROCESS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM); EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EULERIAN; EULERIAN-EULERIAN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS-SOLIDS FLOW; GRANULAR SHEAR FLOWS; GRANULAR TEMPERATURE; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN (LE); LATERAL VELOCITIES; MONODISPERSE; NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPEN-SOURCE; RANDOM PACKING; RAPID ADVANCEMENT; REFERENCE FRAME; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SPOUTED BED; TEST CASE; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCITY PROFILES; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; VOIDAGE;

ALGORITHMS; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYDISPERSITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84857031422     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.09.020     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Anderson T.B., Jackson R. A fluid mechanical description of fluidized beds. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Fundamentals 1967, 6(4):527-539.
2. Ishii M. Thermo-Fluid Dynamic Theory of Two-Phase Flow 1975, Eyrolles, Paris.
3. Gidaspow D. Multiphase Flow and Fluidization: Continuum and Kinetic Theory Descriptions 1994, Academic Press, Boston.
4. Lun C.K.K., Savage S.B., Jeffrey D.J., Chepurniy N. Kinetic theories for granular flow - inelastic particles in Couette flow and slightly inelastic particles in a general flow field. Journal of Fluid Mechanics Mar. 1984, 140:223-256.
5. Gidaspow D., Ettehadieh B. Fluidization in two-dimensional beds with a jet 2. Hydrodynamic modeling. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Fundamentals 1983, 22(2):193-201.
6. Tsuo Y.P., Gidaspow D. Computation of flow patterns in circulating fluidized-beds. AICHE Journal 1990, 36(6):885-896.
7. van der Hoef M.A., Ye M., van Sint Annaland M., Andrews A.T., Sundaresan S., Kuipers J.A.M., et al. Multiscale modeling of gas-fluidized beds. Advances in Chemical Engineering 2006, 65-149. Academic Press.
8. Garg R., Galvin J., Li T., Pannala S. Open-source MFIX-DEM software for gas-solids flows: Part I - verification studies. Powder Technology 2012, 220:122-137.
9. AIAA Guide for the Verification and Validation of Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations 1998, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA-G-077-1998.
10. Oberkampf W.L., Blottner F.G. Issues in computational fluid dynamics code verification and validation. AIAA Journal 1998, 36:687-695.
11. Oberkampf W.L., Trucano T.G. Verification and validation in computational fluid dynamics. Progress in Aerospace Sciences 2002, 38(3):209-272.
12. Pelletier D. Verification, validation, and uncertainty in computational fluids dynamics. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 2010, 37:1003-1013.
13. Grace J.R., Taghipour F. Verification and validation of CFD models and dynamic similarity for fluidized beds. Powder Technology 2004, 139(2):99-110.
14. Syamlal M., O'Brien T.J., Benyahia S., Gel A., Pannala S. Open-source software in computational research: a case study. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering 2008 2008, 10.
15. Boyalakuntla D.J. Simulation of granular and gas-solid flows using discrete element method 2003, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
16. Boyalakuntla D.S., Pannala S. Summary of Discrete Element Model (DEM) Implementation in MFIX 2006, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
17. Sun J., Battaglia F., Subramaniam S. Hybrid two-fluid DEM simulation of gas-solid fluidized beds. Journal of Fluid Engineering 2007, 129(11):1394-1403.
18. Garg R., Galvin J., Li T., Pannala S. Documentation of Open-Source MFIX-DEM Software for Gas-Solids Flows. Morgantown 2010.
19. Cundall P.A., Strack O.D.L. A discrete numerical model for granular assemblies. Geotechnique 1979, 29(1):47-65.
20. Tsuji Y., Kawaguchi T., Tanaka T. Discrete particle simulation of two-dimensional fluidized bed. Powder Technology 1993, 77(1):79-87.
21. Zou R.P., Yu A.B. Evaluation of the packing characteristics of mono-sized non-spherical particles. Powder Technology 1996, 88(1):71-79.
22. Cheng Y.F., Guo S.J., Lai H.Y. Dynamic simulation of random packing of spherical particles. Powder Technology 2000, 107(1-2):123-130.
23. Goldschmidt M.J.V., Link J.M., Mellema S., Kuipers J.A.M. Digital image analysis measurements of bed expansion and segregation dynamics in dense gas-fluidised beds. Powder Technology 2003, 138(2-3):135-159.
24. McGeary R.K. Mechanical packing of spherical particles. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 1961, 44(10):513-522.
25. Jeschar R., Pötke W., Petersen V., Polthier K. Blast Furnace Aerodynamics 1975, 136-147. Aust. I.M.M. Press, Wollongong, New South Wales. N. Standish (Ed.).
26. Yu A.B., Standish N. Porosity calculations of multicomponent mixtures of spherical-particles. Powder Technology 1987, 52(3):233-241.
27. Fedors R.F., Landel R.F. Empirical-method of estimating the void fraction in mixtures of uniform particles of different size. Powder Technology 1979, 23(2):225-231.
28. Govindarao V.M.H., Froment G.F. Voidage profiles in packed-beds of spheres. Chemical Engineering Science 1986, 41(3):533-539.
29. Zhou Y.C., Xu B.H., Yu A.B., Zulli P. An experimental and numerical study of the angle of repose of coarse spheres. Powder Technology 2002, 125(1):45-54.
30. Grasselli Y., Herrmann H.J. On the angles of dry granular heaps. Physica A 1997, 246(3-4):301-312.
31. Li Y.J., Xu Y., Thornton C. A comparison of discrete element simulations and experiments for 'sandpiles' composed of spherical particles. Powder Technology 2005, 160(3):219-228.
32. Zhou Y.C., Wright B.D., Yang R.Y., Xu B.H., Yu A.B. Rolling friction in the dynamic simulation of sandpile formation. Physica a-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 1999, 269(2-4):536-553.
33. Beer F.P., Johnson E.R. Mechanics for Engineers-Statics and Dynamics 1976, MacGraw-Hill, New York.
34. Conway S.L., Glasser B.J. Density waves and coherent structures in granular Couette flows. Physics of Fluids 2004, 16(3):509-529.
35. Lasinski M.E., Curtis J.S., Pekny J.F. Effect of system size on particle-phase stress and microstructure formation. Physics of Fluids 2004, 16(2):265-273.
36. Saitoh K., Hayakawa H. Rheology of a granular gas under a plane shear. Physical Review E 2007, 75(2):021302.
37. Savage S.B., Dai R. Studies of granular shear flows: wall slip velocities, 'layering' and self-diffusion. Mechanics of Materials 1993, 16:225-238.
38. Karion A., Hunt M.L. Wall stresses in granular Couette flows of mono-sized particles and binary mixtures. Powder Technology 2000, 109(1-3):145-163.
39. Popken L., Cleary P.W. Comparison of kinetic theory and discrete element schemes for modeling granular Couette Flows. Journal of Computational Physics 1999, 155:1-25.
40. Kim S.R. A simulation study of granular boundary flows in two dimension. Computational Materials Science 1995, 4:125-132.
41. Lun C.K.K. Granular dynamics of inelastic spheres in Couette flow. Physics of Fluids 1996, 8(11):2868-2883.
42. Rosato A.D., Kim H. Particle dynamics calculations of wall stresses and slip velocities for Couette flow of smooth inelastic spheres. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 1994, 6:1-20.
43. Benyahia S. Validation study of two continuum granular frictional flow theories. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2008, 47(22):8926-8932.
44. Wassgren C.R. Vibration of Granular Materials 1997, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
45. Muller C.R., Scott S.A., Holland D.J., Clarke B.C., Sederman A.J., Dennis J.S., et al. Validation of a discrete element model using magnetic resonance measurements. Particuology 2009, 7(4):297-306.
46. Beetstra R., van der Hoef M.A., Kuipers J.A.M. Numerical study of segregation using a new drag force correlation for polydisperse systems derived from lattice-Boltzmann simulations. Chemical Engineering Science 2007, 62(1-2):246-255.
47. Kaneko Y., Shiojima T., Horio M. DEM simulation of fluidized beds for gas-phase olefin polymerization. Chemical Engineering Science 1999, 54(24):5809-5821.
48. Muller C.R., Holland D.J., Sederman A.J., Scott S.A., Dennis J.S., Gladden L.F. Granular temperature: comparison of magnetic resonance measurements with discrete element model simulations. Powder Technology 2008, 184(2):241-253.
49. Dziugys A., Peters B. An approach to simulate the motion of spherical and non-spherical fuel particles in combustion chambers. Journal of Granular Matter 2001, 3(4):231-266.
50. Niven R.K. Physical insight into the Ergun and Wen & Yu equations for fluid flow in packed and fluidised beds. Chemical Engineering Science 2002, 57(3):527-534.
51. Link J.M., Deen N.G., Kuipers J.A.M., Fan X., Ingram A., Parker D.J., et al. PEPT and discrete particle simulation study of spout-fluid bed regimes. AICHE Journal 2008, 54(5):1189-1202.
52. Link J.M., Cuypers L.A., Deen N.G., Kuipers J.A.M. Flow regimes in a spout-fluid bed: a combined experimental and simulation study. Chemical Engineering Science 2005, 60(13):3425-3442.
53. Rowe P.N., Nienow A.W. Particle mixing and segregation in gas-fluidized beds - review. Powder Technology 1976, 15(2):141-147.
54. Wu S.Y., Baeyens J. Segregation by size difference in gas fluidized beds. Powder Technology 1998, 98(2):139-150.
55. Formisani B., De Cristofaro G., Girimonte R. A fundamental approach to the phenomenology of fluidization of size segregating binary mixtures of solids. Chemical Engineering Science 2001, 56(1):109-119.
56. Feng Y.Q., Xu B.H., Zhang S.J., Yu A.B., Zulli P. Discrete particle simulation of gas fluidization of particle mixtures. AICHE Journal 2004, 50(8):1713-1728.
57. Annaland M.V., Bokkers G.A., Goldschmidt M.J.V., Olaofe O.O., van der Hoef M.A., Kuipers J.A.M. Development of a multi-fluid model for poly-disperse dense gas-solid fluidised beds, Part I: model derivation and numerical implementation. Chemical Engineering Science 2009, 64(20):4222-4236.
58. Annaland M.V., Bokkers G.A., Goldschmidt M.J.V., Olaofe O.O., van der Hoef M.A., Kuipers J.A.M. Development of a multi-fluid model for poly-disperse dense gas-solid fluidised beds, Part II: segregation in binary particle mixtures. Chemical Engineering Science 2009, 64(20):4237-4246.
59. Beetstra R., Hoef van der M.A., Kuipers J.A.M. Drag force of intermediate Reynolds number flow past mono- and bidisperse arrays of spheres. AICHE Journal 2007, 53(2):489-501.