4.6 Article

Implementation of pseudo-turbulence closures in an Eulerian-Eulerian two-fluid model for non-isothermal gas-solid flow

Journal

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 207, Issue -, Pages 663-671

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2019.06.054

Keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Pseudo-turbulent heat flux; Two-fluid model; Gas-solid flow

Funding

  1. U.S. National Science Foundation [CBET-1336941, ACI-1440443]

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The Eulerian-Eulerian two-fluid model is widely used for computational fluid dynamics simulations of gas-solid flows. For non-isothermal flows, the averaged conservation equations solved in the two-fluid model require closures for drag, gas-solid heat transfer, pseudo-turbulent velocity fluctuations and the pseudo-turbulent heat flux (PTHF). However, the pseudo-turbulence terms are usually neglected in two-fluid simulations due to the lack of accurate correlations. With the increase in computational power, closures for these terms are now available from particle-resolved direct-numerical simulation (PR-DNS). Here, the PTHF closure as well as the heat-transfer closure (i.e., the Nusselt number) extracted from PR-DNS are implemented in the two-fluid thermal energy equation in OpenFOAM. The implementation is validated by comparing the simulation results with the PR-DNS data for the temperature profiles. Based on the analysis of the thermal energy budget, the PTHF can have a significant contribution and neglecting it can lead to large errors. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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