Constitutive Models for Filtered Two-Fluid Models of Fluidized Gas-Particle Flows

Our prior study [Igci et al., AIChE J., 2008, S4, 1431-1448] presented a methodology where computational results obtained through highly resolved simulations of a given microscopic two-fluid model (TFM) for gas-particle flows are filtered to deduce models for the residual correlations appearing in the corresponding filtered TFM equations that are appropriate for coarse-grid simulations of gas-particle flows. In the present study, we have performed a large number of highly resolved simulations of a kinetic theory based TFM in two- and three-dimensional periodic domains using this methodology and filtered the results to generate computational data on the filtered drag coefficient, the filtered particle phase pressure, and the filtered particle phase viscosity. These results have been captured in the form of correlations that can readily be employed in coarse-grid simulations of gas-particle flows.