3-D DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF GAS–LIQUID
AND GAS–LIQUID–SOLID FLOW SYSTEMS USING THE
LEVEL-SET AND IMMERSED-BOUNDARY METHODS
Yang Ge and Liang-Shih Fan
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH 43210, USA
I. Introduction 2
II. Front-Capturing and Front-Tracking Methods 4
A. Level-Set Method 6
B. Immersed Boundary Method 9
III. System 1: Flow Dynamics of Gas–Liquid–Solid Fluidized
Beds 11
A. Numerical Procedure for Solving the Gas–Liquid
Interface 12
B. Governing Equations for the Gas–Liquid–Solid Flow 13
C. Modeling the Motion and Collision Dynamics of Solid
Particles in Gas–Liquid–Solid Fluidization 14
D. Results and Discussions 16
IV. System 2: Deformation Dynamics of Liquid Droplet in
Collision with a Particle with Film-Boiling Evaporation 27
A. Simulation of Saturated Droplet Impact on Flat Surface
in the Leidenfrost Regime 29
B. Simulation of Subcooled Droplet Impact on Flat
Surface in Leidenfrost Regime 38
C. Simulation of Droplet–Particle Collision in the
Leidenfrost Regime 49
V. Concluding Remarks 58
References 61
Abstract
The recent advances in level-set and Immersed Boundary methods
(IBM) as applied to the simulation of complex multiphase flow systems
are described. Two systems are considered. For system 1, a computa-
tional scheme is conceived to describe the three-dimensional (3-D) bubble
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Advances in Chemical Engineering, vol. 31
ISSN 0065-2377
DOI 10.1016/S0065-2377(06)31001-0
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