Gas-solid fluidized beds have drawn the attention of engineers and researchers as an
effective technology for a large variety of applications, and numerical simulations can play …

Gas-solid fluidization technology has been commercialized in many industrial applications
since its implementation in the fluid catalytic cracking process in the early 1940s, however …

Circulating fluidized beds (CFBs) have been widely applied in coal combustion and
gasification industry due to their excellent performance in terms of fuel flexibility and …

A GPU-based, massively parallel coarse-grained CFD-DEM method was adapted to study
the scale-up effect of residence time distribution of polydisperse particles in continuously …

The multi-fluid model has been widely used to study heat transfer between gas and solid in
bubbling fluidized beds. However, zero-dimensional (0D) model has been commonly used …

Particles under fluidization conditions tend to clog and aggregate, and form meso–scale
structures that significantly affect gas-solid transport phenomena. In the last decade …

Interphase drag coefficient is a critical input in two-fluid model (TFM) and discrete particle
method (DPM). In this study, extensive TFM and DPM simulations were carried out to study …

The current work presents an Artificial Neural Network EMMS (ANN-EMMS) drag scheme,
developed specifically for applications related to fluidized bed (FB) reactors in chemical …

Residence time distribution of particles is a critical parameter for proper design of gas-solid
fluidized beds, especially in many non-catalytic solid conversion processes where it is highly …

The cohesive particles are commonly encountered in high temperature polymerization
fluidized bed reactors. However, detailed studies on the effect of cohesiveness on the …