Different industrial scale multiphase systems can be successfully described by considering their polydispersity (e.g. particle/droplet/bubble size and velocity distributions) and phase coupling issues are properly overcome only by considering the evolution in space and time of such distributions, dictated by the so-called Generalized Population Balance Equation (GPBE). A computationally efficient approach for solving the GPBE is represented by the quadrature-based moment methods, where the evolution of the entire particle/droplet/bubble population is recovered by tracking some specific moments of the distribution and the quadrature approximation is used to solve the “closure problem” typical of moment-based methods. In this contribution some crucial computational and numerical details concerning the implementation of these methods into the opensource Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code OpenFOAM are discussed. These aspects are in fact very often overlooked, resulting in implementations that do not satisfy the properties of conservation, realizability and boundedness. These constraints have to be satisfied in a consistent way, with respect to what done with the other conserved transported variables (e.g. volume fraction of the disperse phase) also when higher-order discretization schemes are used. These issues are illustrated on examples taken on our work on the simulation of fluid-fluid multiphase systems.

ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOMENT TRANSPORT EQUATIONS IN OPENFOAM TO PRESERVE CONSERVATION, BOUNDEDNESS AND REALIZABILITY / Buffo, Antonio; Marchisio, Daniele; Vanni, Marco. - ELETTRONICO. - (2014). (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference on Multiphase Flows in Industrial Plants tenutosi a Sestri Levante nel September 16-19, 2014).

ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOMENT TRANSPORT EQUATIONS IN OPENFOAM TO PRESERVE CONSERVATION, BOUNDEDNESS AND REALIZABILITY

BUFFO, ANTONIO;MARCHISIO, DANIELE;VANNI, Marco
2014

Abstract

Different industrial scale multiphase systems can be successfully described by considering their polydispersity (e.g. particle/droplet/bubble size and velocity distributions) and phase coupling issues are properly overcome only by considering the evolution in space and time of such distributions, dictated by the so-called Generalized Population Balance Equation (GPBE). A computationally efficient approach for solving the GPBE is represented by the quadrature-based moment methods, where the evolution of the entire particle/droplet/bubble population is recovered by tracking some specific moments of the distribution and the quadrature approximation is used to solve the “closure problem” typical of moment-based methods. In this contribution some crucial computational and numerical details concerning the implementation of these methods into the opensource Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code OpenFOAM are discussed. These aspects are in fact very often overlooked, resulting in implementations that do not satisfy the properties of conservation, realizability and boundedness. These constraints have to be satisfied in a consistent way, with respect to what done with the other conserved transported variables (e.g. volume fraction of the disperse phase) also when higher-order discretization schemes are used. These issues are illustrated on examples taken on our work on the simulation of fluid-fluid multiphase systems.
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