Gas-solid fluidized beds have drawn the attention of engineers and researchers as an
effective technology for a large variety of applications, and numerical simulations can play …

With increasing the computational resources, the number of publications about coupled
computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method is in the rise in the recent years. This …

Abstract A comprehensive CFD–DEM numerical model has been developed to simulate the
biomass gasification process in a fluidized bed reactor. The methodology is based on an …

The co-gasification of coal and biomass through fluidized bed gasifier is a promising
technology for the improvement of the utilization efficiency of fossil fuels and the …

In the past few decades, multi-scale numerical methods have been developed to model
dense gas-solid flow in fluidized beds with different resolutions, accuracies, and efficiencies …

The computational fluid dynamic combining the discrete element method (CFD-DEM) is
widely used to comprehend the mechanism of gas–solid flow. However, as a Lagrangian …

Scour is a key issue affecting the service life of submarine pipelines. Understanding the
scour process and scour mechanism around the pipelines is crucial for develo** the …

In this paper, a multiscale Eulerian–Lagrangian CFD model based on OpenFOAM has been
constructed, which takes into account heat and mass transfer, pyrolysis, homogeneous and …

A comprehensive coarse grain model (CGM) is applied to simulation of biomass steam
gasification in bubbling fluidized bed reactor. The CGM was evaluated by comparing the …

Abstract A CFD-DEM model already developed by the authors has been extended to directly
compare the gasification performances between raw and torrefied grassy biomasses in an …