Journal
AGRONOMY-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11112246
Keywords
large-eddy simulation; particle-laden flow; dispersed multiphase flow; OpenFOAM; manure application
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- Leibniz Association, Berlin, Germany [SAW-2017-DSMZ-2]
- Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS '21
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This study investigated an open-source solver for simulating the transport and dispersion of particulate matter in agricultural applications. The solver showed good results in capturing turbulent flow in a street canyon, but had some deviations in particle concentration.
Agriculture is a major emitter of particulate matter (PM), which causes health problems and can act as a carrier of the pathogen material that spreads diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate an open-source solver that simulates the transport and dispersion of PM for typical agricultural applications. We investigated a coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian solver within the open source software package OpenFOAM. The continuous phase was solved using transient large eddy simulations, where four different subgrid-scale turbulence models and an inflow turbulence generator were tested. The discrete phase was simulated using two different Lagrangian solvers. For the validation case of a turbulent flow of a street canyon, the flowfield could be recaptured very well, with errors of around 5% for the non-equilibrium turbulence models (WALE and dynamicKeq) in the main regions. The inflow turbulence generator could create a stable and accurate boundary layer for the mean vertical velocity and vertical profile of the turbulent Reynolds stresses R-11. The validation of the Lagrangian solver showed mixed results, with partly good agreements (simulation results within the measurement uncertainty), and partly high deviations of up to 80% for the concentration of particles. The higher deviations were attributed to an insufficient turbulence regime of the used validation case, which was an experimental chamber. For the simulation case of PM dispersion from manure application on a field, the solver could capture the influence of features such as size and density on the dispersion. The investigated solver is especially useful for further investigations into time-dependent processes in the near-source area of PM sources.
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