Gas-solid fluidization technology has been commercialized in many industrial applications
since its implementation in the fluid catalytic cracking process in the early 1940s, however …

This review article aims to provide a comprehensive and understandable account of the
theoretical foundation, modeling issues, and numerical implementation of the Lagrangian …

In this work, a strategy capable of simulating polydisperse flows in complex geometries is
employed where the fluid transport equations are solved in an Eulerian framework and the …

Modeling is regarded as a suitable tool to improve biomass pyrolysis in terms of efficiency,
product yield, and controllability. However, it is crucial to develop advanced models to …

Starting from a kinetic theory (KT) model for monodisperse granular flow, the exact Reynolds-
averaged (RA) equations are derived for the particle phase in a collisional fluid–particle …

In this paper, the most influential parameters (numerical and operating parameters) affecting
the performance of fluidized bed reactors are studied. The investigated parameters are …

Multiphase flows occurring in nature and in technological applications are often turbulent.
The large range of length scales and timescales in turbulent multiphase flows makes direct …

Kinetic equations arise in a wide variety of physical systems and efficient numerical methods
are needed for their solution. Moment methods are an important class of approximate …

In this work, an Euler–Euler multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model, which
couples a biomass particle pyrolysis model with a multi-fluid hydrodynamics model for gas …

Among the different thermo-chemical recycling routes for plastic waste valorization,
gasification is one of the most promising, converting plastic waste into syngas (H2+ CO) and …