Review of modelling of pyrolysis processes with CFD-DEM

DD Attanayake, F Sewerin, S Kulkarni… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2023 - Springer
In a pyrolysis reactor, organic polymers from biomass or plastic waste are thermally
decomposed into volatile gases, condensable vapours (tar or bio-oil) and solid residues …

Multiscale modeling of tip-leakage cavitating flows by a combined volume of fluid and discrete bubble model

L Li, Z Wang, X Li, Z Zhu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
For the tip-leakage cavitating flow, the existence of both interface and microbubbles at
scales separated by orders of magnitude makes it difficult to be comprehensively …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

Multi-Scale methodology of breakup and atomization for liquid jets in crossflow

C Liu, X **, H Liu, W Li, M Jia, R Li - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Liquid jets in crossflow represent a highly complex phenomenon, characterized by intricate
interactions across multiple temporal and spatial scales spanning orders of magnitude. To …

Liquid sheet formation and spray characterization of N-heptane spray jet from a swirl atomizer: Numerical analysis and validation

Y Sun, CS Vegad, Y Li, L Dreßler, B Renou… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper analyzes the liquid atomization mechanisms of an N-heptane spray jet emerging
from a swirl simplex atomizer using numerical and experimental techniques. In particular, a …

[KNIHA][B] Multiphase flows with droplets and particles

EE Michaelides, M Sommerfeld, B van Wachem - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Multiphase Flows with Droplets and Particles provides an organized, pedagogical study of
multiphase flows with particles and droplets. This revised edition presents new information …

[HTML][HTML] Euler-Lagrange modelling of dilute particle-laden flows with arbitrary particle-size to mesh-spacing ratio

F Evrard, F Denner, B van Wachem - Journal of Computational Physics: X, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the two-way coupled Euler-Lagrange modelling of dilute particle-
laden flows, with arbitrary particle-size to mesh-spacing ratio. Two-way coupled Euler …

Subgrid scale modeling of droplet bag breakup in VOF simulations

A Han, O Desjardins - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
The mesh-dependency of the breakup of liquid films, including their breakup length scales
and resulting drop size distributions, has long been an obstacle inhibiting the computational …

Very large eddy simulation of cavitation from inception to sheet/cloud regimes by a multiscale model

L Li, Z Wang, X Li, Y Wang, Z Zhu - China Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Springer
The cavitating flow in different regimes has the intricate flow structure with multiple time and
space scales. The present work develops a multiscale model by coupling the volume of fluid …

Multiscale modeling and validation of the flow around Taylor bubbles surrounded with small dispersed bubbles using a coupled VOF-DBM approach

RFL Cerqueira, EE Paladino, F Evrard, F Denner… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work presents a multiscale three-dimensional CFD model for the simulation of two-
phase gas-liquid flows with different interface length scales, with focus on slug flow pattern …