Developments and applications of the CFD-DEM method in particle–fluid numerical simulation in petroleum engineering: A review

X Wang, L Gong, Y Li, J Yao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Particle and fluid flow is a general problem existing in a series of engineering activities
during oil and gas development. Many efforts have been made to investigate the migration …

[HTML][HTML] A review of contact force models between nanoparticles in agglomerates, aggregates, and films

SC Endres, LC Ciacchi, L Mädler - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A desire to optimise the production and performance of nanoparticle structured materials
has driven the development of increasingly accurate and fundamental models that describe …

A resolved CFD-DEM coupling model for modeling two-phase fluids interaction with irregularly shaped particles

Z Shen, G Wang, D Huang, F Jin - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop a resolved coupling model to simulate interaction between two-
phase fluids and irregularly shaped particles by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …

A semi-resolved CFD-DEM model for seepage-induced fine particle migration in gap-graded soils

K Cheng, Y Wang, Q Yang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract A semi-resolved CFD-DEM model is proposed to model the seepage-induced fine
particle migration within the gap-graded soils consisting of fine and coarse particles. In this …

Semi-coupled resolved CFD–DEM simulation of powder-based selective laser melting for additive manufacturing

T Yu, J Zhao - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a semi-coupled resolved Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Discrete
Element Method (DEM) to simulate a class of granular media problems that involve thermal …

CFD-DEM modelling of the migration of fines in suspension flow through a solid packed bed

Z Xie, S Wang, Y Shen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, based on the unresolved CFD-DEM framework, a smoothed volume distribution
model (SVDM) is developed to simulate the migration of fines in suspension flow through a …

Recent advances and perspectives of CFD–DEM simulation in fluidized bed

Z Zhao, L Zhou, L Bai, B Wang, R Agarwal - Archives of Computational …, 2024 - Springer
The coupling of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and discrete element method (DEM)
has become an important method for studying dense fluidized beds. Since DEM can track …

Semi-resolved CFD-DEM simulation of fine particle migration with heat transfer in heterogeneous porous media

G Zhu, Y Zhao, Z Wang, M Liu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of the migrating phenomena of microscale particles
associated with fluid flows and heat exchange in porous media is essential for developing …

Quantitative simulation of selective laser melting of metals enabled by new high-fidelity multiphase, multiphysics computational tool

T Yu, J Zhao - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Laser powder bed fusion represents the future for metal additive manufacturing. Advance of
this emerging technology is bottlenecked by the unavailability of high-fidelity prediction tools …

A novel hybrid CFD-DEM method for high-fidelity multi-resolution modelling of cross-scale particulate flow

Z Xie, S Wang, Y Shen - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Cross-scale polydisperse particulate-fluid flows are widely practised yet their multi-
resolution simulations are not achieved due to the lack of reliable numerical methods. In this …