Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds

Verma, Vikrant; Li, Tingwen; Dietiker, Jean -Francois; Rogers, William A.

doi:10.1016/j.powtec.2016.12.044

Title: Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds

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Immersed vertical cylinders are often used as heat exchanger in gas-solid fluidized beds. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are computationally expensive for large scale systems with bundles of cylinders. Therefore sub-grid models are required to facilitate simulations on a coarse grid, where internal cylinders are treated as a porous medium. The influence of cylinders on the gas-solid flow tends to enhance segregation and affect the gas-solid drag. A correction to gas-solid drag must be modeled using a suitable sub-grid constitutive relationship. In the past, Sarkar et al. have developed a sub-grid drag model for horizontal cylinder arrays based on 2D simulations. However, the effect of a vertical cylinder arrangement was not considered due to computational complexities. In this study, highly resolved 3D simulations with vertical cylinders were performed in small periodic domains. These simulations were filtered to construct a sub-grid drag model which can then be implemented in coarse-grid simulations. Gas-solid drag was filtered for different solids fractions and a significant reduction in drag was identified when compared with simulation without cylinders and simulation with horizontal cylinders. Slip velocities significantly increase when vertical cylinders are present. Lastly, vertical suspension drag due to vertical cylinders is insignificant however substantial horizontal suspensionmore »« less

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Verma, Vikrant ^[1]; Li, Tingwen ^[2]; Dietiker, Jean -Francois ^[3]; Rogers, William A. ^[1]

National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); AECOM, Morgantown, WV (United States)
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); West Virginia Univ. Research Corp., Morgantown, WV (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 EST 2017

Research Org.:: National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1415470

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1396865

Report Number(s):: A-CONTR-PUB-053
Journal ID: ISSN 0032-5910; PII: S0032591016309214

Grant/Contract Number:: FE0004000

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Powder Technology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 316; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0032-5910

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Two-fluid model; Filtered model; Fluidized bed; Cylinders; Drag force

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                    Verma, Vikrant, Li, Tingwen, Dietiker, Jean -Francois, and Rogers, William A. Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Verma, Vikrant, Li, Tingwen, Dietiker, Jean -Francois, & Rogers, William A. Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.12.044

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"Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.12.044.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1415470.

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  title        = {Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds},

  author       = {Verma, Vikrant and Li, Tingwen and Dietiker, Jean -Francois and Rogers, William A.},

  abstractNote = {Immersed vertical cylinders are often used as heat exchanger in gas-solid fluidized beds. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are computationally expensive for large scale systems with bundles of cylinders. Therefore sub-grid models are required to facilitate simulations on a coarse grid, where internal cylinders are treated as a porous medium. The influence of cylinders on the gas-solid flow tends to enhance segregation and affect the gas-solid drag. A correction to gas-solid drag must be modeled using a suitable sub-grid constitutive relationship. In the past, Sarkar et al. have developed a sub-grid drag model for horizontal cylinder arrays based on 2D simulations. However, the effect of a vertical cylinder arrangement was not considered due to computational complexities. In this study, highly resolved 3D simulations with vertical cylinders were performed in small periodic domains. These simulations were filtered to construct a sub-grid drag model which can then be implemented in coarse-grid simulations. Gas-solid drag was filtered for different solids fractions and a significant reduction in drag was identified when compared with simulation without cylinders and simulation with horizontal cylinders. Slip velocities significantly increase when vertical cylinders are present. Lastly, vertical suspension drag due to vertical cylinders is insignificant however substantial horizontal suspension drag is observed which is consistent to the finding for horizontal cylinders.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.powtec.2016.12.044},

  journal      = {Powder Technology},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 316,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 EST 2017},

  month        = {Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 EST 2017}

}

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