Lagrangian Particle

Tracking
14. 5 Release

Multiphase Flow
Modeling
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in ANSYS CFX
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 Overview
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General descripti on
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Particle tracking in ANSYS CFX
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Particle transport equati ons
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Particle integrati on algorithm
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General setup of particle tracking in ANSYS CFX

• Particle injection
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Turbulent dispersion
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Wall Treatment

• Particle integrati on controls

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Particle variables as vertex variables

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Particle-particle collisions
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 Introduction

• Method for modeling particle laden fl ows

• A representative sample of particles is tracked through the conti nuous fluid

• Ordinary differential equati ons (ODE) are integrated for position and

velocity of each particle

• The overall mass fl ow rate of the particle phase is shared amongst the
representative particles, so each particle has its own mass fl ow rate, and its
own number rate

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 Lagrangian or
Eulerian?
• Lagrangian particle tracking is an alternative to Eulerian-Eulerian
multiphase modeling. Care should be taken to choose the
better method for the application!

• The same physics is essentially modeled

• Although particles have an associated diameter, they are modeled as

moving points, so they take up no volume of the continuous fluid.
Particle-particle interactions are also neglected and thus the model is
only applicable at low volume fractions

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 Simplifying Assumptions
•  Moving particle is treated as a moving mass point

 –  Abstraction from particle shape and volume  

•  Details of the flow around the particle are neglected, e.g.

 –  Near parti cle fl ow field
 –  Vortex shedding
 –  Flow separation
 –  Boundary layers

•  Local properties of the dispersed phase are predicted from spatial averaging
over particle trajectories which are crossing a certain (control) volume

•  Not possible to predict the tracks of all physical particles

 –  Use concept of representative particle trajectories

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