Semi-resolved CFD–DEM for thermal particulate flows with applications to fluidized beds

Z Wang, M Liu - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
Particulate flows with heat transfer widely exist in industry including fluidized bed reactor
and powder-based 3D printing, and are frequently modeled with CFD–DEM coupled …

A semi-resolved CFD–DEM approach for particulate flows with kernel based approximation and Hilbert curve based searching strategy

Z Wang, Y Teng, M Liu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Particulate flow has a wide range of industrial applications and is frequently modeled with
coupled CFD–DEM approaches. Herein, we first identified a simulation gap between the …

A finite particle method with particle shifting technique for modeling particulate flows with thermal convection

ZL Zhang, K Walayat, C Huang, JZ Chang… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Particulate flows with thermal convection are very challenging to simulate numerically due to
the existence of constantly moving boundaries and complex heat-fluid coupling effects …

Study on a semi-resolved CFD-DEM method for rod-like particles in a gas-solid fluidized bed

L He, Z Liu, Y Zhao - Particuology, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on a semi-resolved CFD-DEM coupling method, this study proposed a method that
uses the minimum distance between the fluid grid and the particle boundary as a reference …

Hydrocarbon recovery: Optimized CFD-DEM modeling of proppant transport in rough rock fractures

B Zhang, RP Gamage, C Zhang, A Wanniarachchi - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Proppant distribution in rough rock fractures is a key factor in the evaluation of the
effectiveness of a hydraulic fracturing operation. This paper focuses on the study of how …

Particle-resolved thermal lattice Boltzmann simulation using OpenACC on multi-GPUs

A Xu, BT Li - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract We utilize the Open Accelerator (OpenACC) approach for graphics processing unit
(GPU) accelerated particle-resolved thermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) simulation. We adopt the …

An extended unresolved CFD-DEM coupling method for simulation of fluid and non-spherical particles

L He, Z Liu, Y Zhao - Particuology, 2022 - Elsevier
This study develops an extended unresolved CFD-DEM coupling method for simulation of
the fluid–solid flow with non-spherical particles. The limitation of fluid grid size is discussed …

On the determination of grid size/smoothing distance in un−/semi-resolved CFD-DEM simulation of particulate flows

Z Wang, M Liu - Powder Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Unresolved and semi-resolved CFD-DEM coupling are frequently used for modeling
particulate flows due to their high efficiency and satisfying accuracy. The grid size (in …

Dynamics of elliptic particle sedimentation with thermal convection

K Walayat, Z Zhang, K Usman, J Chang, M Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, a recently developed direct numerical simulation technique, the Finite Element
Fictitious Boundary Method (FEM-FBM)[K. Walayat et al.,“An efficient multi-grid finite element …

Automatic determination of coupling time step and region in unresolved DEM-CFD

M Wang, JB Liu, XF Wang, XL Yan, LM Yao, QB Yue - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
When unresolved CFD-DEM is used in coupling calculation, both fluid flow field and
particles dynamic both are in time and space domains solves. The coupling time step …