Center of Engineering and Multiscale modeling of Fluid flow
Screw conveyor uses the power of a rotating helical ribbon to transport solids from one place to another. They usually are horizontal or with a slight angle with respect to horizon. They have applications in many industries including chemical and petrochemical, power plants, cements, paper, flour, iron and steel foundries,…
Bubble columns are useful processing units to contact gas and liquid for inter-phase mass transfer and chemical reactions. They have been applied in chemical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, waste-water treatment and other industries. Their construction is simple: a vertical column filled with liquid (mostly water) and a gas entering from bottom…
V-blender (V-mixer) is found in most of solid processing industries. They provide reliable and easy mixing of dry powders in batch mode. This mixer can be found in many industries such as food and pharmaceutical processing. You see a list of V-blender applications here: Food processing : mixing of dairy…
Gas solid fluidized bed is the most common solid-gas contractors in many processes like reactions, drying, coating and size separation. The unique heat & mass transfer capabilities between phases and robust mixing make fluidized bed a good candidate for many gas-solid processing units. In practical applications, they can operate in…
Two-phase stirred tanks are two phase reactors with enhanced mixing and elongated gas holdup and residence time in comparison to bubble columns. They may contain one or more sets of impellers that promote mixing force and help bubble breakage to enhance gas-liquid contact. In this tutorial, you will learn how…
You will learn how to simulate a bubble column suing OpenFAOM®. All the details on sub-models and simulation settings are presented in this tutorial. You can also see the animation of the simulation results here.
You always face times that you want to add new physical models to your solver. In two-phase simulations, drag model and turbulence model are perhaps two of the most important ones that one may want to change. In this tutorial you will learn how to add these physical models to the…
In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a gas-solid fluidized bed using OpenFOAM® (twoPhaseEulerFoam). The tutorial also contains a complete description of physical models and available options through which you can customize your simulation. In addition, you can see the animation of this simulation here. The video is…
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install OpenFOAM-7 from source pack. If you already have some components installed on your computer, you may skip some of the steps. This tutorial has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. A) Download and Initial…