CIESC Journal ›› 2019, Vol. 70 ›› Issue (5): 1702-1712.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20180962

• Fluid dynamics and transport phenomena • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Verification of coarse-grained CFD-DEM method in multiple flow regimes

Junjie LIN(),Kun LUO(),Shuai WANG,Chenshu HU,Jianren FAN   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China
  • Received:2018-08-27 Revised:2019-02-22 Online:2019-05-05 Published:2019-05-05
  • Contact: Kun LUO

coarse-grained CFD-DEM方法在不同流态流化床中的模拟验证

林俊杰(),罗坤(),王帅,胡陈枢,樊建人   

  1. 浙江大学能源清洁利用国家重点实验室,浙江 杭州 310027
  • 通讯作者: 罗坤
  • 作者简介:<named-content content-type="corresp-name">林俊杰</named-content>(1993—), 男,硕士研究生,<email>linjunjie@zju.edu.cn</email>|罗坤(1977—),男,博士,教授,<email>zjulk@zju.edu.cn</email>
  • 基金资助:
    国家重点研发计划项目(2017YFB0601805)

Abstract:

The computation load for traditional computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM) simulations tremendously increases when the number of particles augments in the system. The coarse-grained CFD-DEM method, in which a number of real particles are lumped into a numerical parcel, can remarkably reduce the computation load. It is necessary to extensively verify the coarse-grained CFD-DEM method before it is applied. Therefore, in the current work, the coarse-grained CFD-DEM method is validated in fluidized beds with various fluidization regimes. On one hand, it is found that gas and solid features (i.e., void fraction, pressure signals, and particle velocity) obtained from this method match well with the experiment measurements. On the other hand, as the coarse-grained ratios increase, the calculation time for a specific case is significantly reduced. In summary, the coarse-grained CFD-DEM contributes a great improvement of calculation efficiency while a little loss of numerical accuracy, which is expected to be a powerful tool to simulate gas-solid flow dynamics in large-scale dense particulate systems.

Key words: coarse-grained method, DEM, CFD, fluidized bed, gas-solid flow, computational efficiency

摘要:

传统CFD-DEM方法的计算量随着系统内颗粒数目的增加而显著增加,coarse-grained CFD-DEM(粗颗粒)方法将若干个真实颗粒打包成虚拟颗粒从而显著减小系统计算量。在coarse-grained CFD-DEM方法进行应用之前,对其进行广泛的验证是有必要的。采用coarse-grained CFD-DEM方法模拟得到不同流态流化床的气固流动特征(固含率、压降、颗粒速度等),与传统CFD-DEM和实验测量吻合较好。另外,系统的计算效率随着粗颗粒放大系数的增加显著提升。研究表明,粗颗粒方法能够以较小的计算精度损失而使计算速度大幅提升,能够适用于大尺度稠密气固流动系统的模拟。

关键词: coarse-grained方法, 离散单元法, 计算流体力学, 流化床, 气固两相流, 计算效率

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