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 …

Slurry mixing is a key process in the production of lithium-ion batteries. The interphase mass
transfer and refinement problems involved in the shear mixing process have important …

Dense gas-solid reacting flow is practised in many industrial processes where the particle
number may be huge and cannot be modelled using the conventional CFD-DEM approach …

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 coupling of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and discrete element method (DEM)
has become an important method for studying dense fluidized beds. Since DEM can track …

In this study, air-blown gasification of biomass in a bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) gasifier was
numerically investigated. A discrete element model coupled with computational fluid …

The open source code MFIX is used to perform CFD-DEM and TFM simulations based on
the small scale challenge problem 1 fluidized bed set up. The basic flow features such as …

Permeability is one of the most fundamental properties of soil, which governs many
geotechnical engineering problems. However, among the published equations that predict …

Non-spherical particles are common in industrial applications such as coal gasification and
biomass combustion. The present work employs a coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics …