A Formulation for Fully Resolved Simulation (FRS) of Particle-Turbulence Interactions in Two-Phase Flows

A Formulation for Fully Resolved Simulation (FRS) of Particle-Turbulence Interactions in Two-Phase Flows

Year:    2008

Author:    S. V. Apte, N. A. Patankar

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 5 (2008), Iss. 5 : pp. 1–16

Abstract

A numerical formulation for fully resolved simulations of freely moving rigid particles in turbulent flows is presented. This work builds upon the fictitious-domain based approach for fast computation of fluid-rigid particle motion by Sharma & Patankar ([1] Ref. J. Compt. Phys., (205), 2005). The approach avoids explicit calculation of distributed Lagrange multipliers to impose rigid body motion and reduces the computational overhead due to the particle-phase. Implementation of the numerical algorithm in co-located, finite-volume-based, energy conserving fractional-step schemes on structured, Cartesian grids is presented. The numerical approach is first validated for flow over a fixed sphere at various Reynolds numbers and flow generated by a freely falling sphere under gravity. Grid and time-step convergence studies are performed to evaluate the accuracy of the approach. Finally, simulation of 125 cubical particles in a decaying isotropic turbulent flow is performed to study the feasibility of simulations of turbulent flows in the presence of freely moving, arbitrary-shaped rigid particles.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2008-IJNAM-836

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 5 (2008), Iss. 5 : pp. 1–16

Published online:    2008-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    16

Keywords:    DNS particle-turbulence interactions point-particle fully resolved particles.

Author Details

S. V. Apte

N. A. Patankar