ZHU Liping, PENG Xiaomin, HUANG Fei, et al. Numerical simulation of flow patterns in dense pneumatic conveying at different superficial gas velocities[J]. CIESC Journal, 2012, (2): 470-478.
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ZHU Liping, PENG Xiaomin, HUANG Fei, et al. Numerical simulation of flow patterns in dense pneumatic conveying at different superficial gas velocities[J]. CIESC Journal, 2012, (2): 470-478.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2012.02.019.
Numerical simulation of flow patterns in dense pneumatic conveying at different superficial gas velocities
Due to the problem in available numerical simulations of flow patterns in dense pneumatic conveying
a new mathematical model
which uses solidphase volume concentration of local space and kinematic characteristics of clusters to describe the interactions between particles
was proposed in this paperThis model was first used to numerically simulate the dense pneumatic conveying (even for the packing of particles)
and then used to numerically study the flow behavior of dense phase pneumatic conveying in horizontal pipe at high pressures
in which the separation and sedimentation between gas phase and solid phase in the conveying process were investigatedThe simulation results also illustrated the evolving characteristics of flow patterns such as dune flow and plug flow
which are consistent with the experimental phenomenaMoreover
some rules of flow patterns were revealed by qualitatively analyzing the distribution of solidphase flow patterns at different superficial gas velocitiesThe results show that the new model is appropriate and can be used to study the dense pneumatic conveying.