CFD-DEM coupled simulation of fluidized beds with improved lumped formulation for heat transfer
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Published:2023-08-16
Issue:12
Volume:33
Page:3810-3838
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ISSN:0961-5539
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Container-title:International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
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language:en
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Short-container-title:HFF
Author:
de Almeida Lucilla Coelho,Aguirre Oliveira Junior Joao Americo,Su Jian
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to present a novel approach for computing particle temperatures in simulations coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and discrete element method (DEM) to predict flow and heat transfer in fluidized beds of thermally thick spherical particles.
Design/methodology/approach
An improved lumped formulation based on Hermite-type approximations for integrals to relate surface temperature to average temperature and surface heat flux is used to overcome the limitations of classical lumped models. The model is validated through comparisons with analytical solutions for a convectively cooled sphere and experimental data for a fixed particle bed. The coupled CFD-DEM model is then applied to simulate a Geldart D bubbling fluidized bed, comparing the results to those obtained using the classical lumped model.
Findings
The validation cases demonstrate that ignoring internal thermal resistance can significantly impact the temperature in cases where the Biot number is greater than 0.1. The results for the fixed bed case clearly demonstrate that the proposed method yields significantly improved outcomes compared to the classical model. The fluidized bed results show that surface temperature can deviate considerably from the average temperature, underscoring the importance of accurately accounting for surface temperature in convective heat transfer predictions and surface processes.
Originality/value
The proposed approach offers a physically more consistent simulation without imposing a significant increase in computational cost. The improved lumped formulation can be easily and inexpensively integrated into a typical DEM solver workflow to predict heat transfer for spherical particles, with important implications for various industrial applications.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Aerospace Engineering,Computational Mechanics,Engineering (miscellaneous)
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