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WS6-1
Introduction
This simulation involves bubbly flow in a rectangular bubble column In the first workshop, you set up and ran a steady-state Eulerian simulation with only buoyancy and drag forces included on the bubbles. The shape of the bubble plume did not match experiments, probably because some potentially important forces were neglected. In the second workshop, you added non-drag forces to the model In this workshop, you will replace the constant diameter dispersed phase with a homogeneous MUSIG fluid This workshop demonstrates
Eulerian multiphase flow Buoyant flow Non-drag forces MUSIG population balance
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WS6-2
Background
Rather than prescribing a dispersed phase size as in the standard Eulerian treatment, the MUSIG model allows you to predict a mean size via a population balance approach which models the process of coalescence and break-up For a MUSIG fluid, you divide the fluid into a number of size groups or bins. In the homogeneous treatment of the MUSIG model (assumed here), all bubble sizes are assumed to move with the same velocity (approximately valid for bubbles in the elliptical regime) Where the solver needs to compute the mean diameter for the interfacial area it will use the Sauter mean diameter, d32. You will define a size group with six size groups ranging from 0.5 to 10 mm and assume that the bubbles all enter in the smallest size class. The solver will then compute the mean stable bubble size.
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Click OK to complete the polydispersed fluid settings and the modification of the domain
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Imbalances
Start of run
Holdup
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Post-Processing
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Select the +Z view. Create a XY-Plane for a Z-value of 0.01 m and color it according to air.Mean Particle Diameter. The value is lowest near the inlet but increases after that as the bubbles coalesce. A mean size is reached as the processes of breakup and coalescence reach equilibrium. There is an increase again in the headspace that one would expect due to coalescence.
WS6-13
Improving Convergence
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This example workshop was intended for demonstration purposes and as an introduction to the steps required to include the MUSIG model in a multiphase simulation. It was set up to run in a reasonably short period of time. The convergence in this example is not particularly good and should be improved if the results were to be taken as final. The convergence for this problem could be improved substantially by running the simulation as transient. To convert the steady-state simulation to a transient one, you could open the definition file in CFX-Pre and change the Simulation Type to Transient. Timesteps of 0.005 s with an overall duration of 20 s would be appropriate The runtime for this transient simulation will be significant and will be outside the scope of the time allotted for the practicals in this course Convergence will be better for the transient case.
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