The coupling between fluid and granular materials is commonly encountered in nature and
engineering practice. Moreover, the shape of granular materials in practical applications is …

The knowledge of simple and relatively accurate closure equations for the drag coefficients
of nonspherical particles is very important for Eulerian multiphase numerical codes that …

Natural particles, such as sand and dust, often have irregular, angular shapes without
porosity. Such sedimentary particles can have a significantly different drag coefficients than …

In the current study, a hybrid direct forcing Immersed Boundary-Lattice Boltzmann Method is
employed to study the geometry and size effects of falling elliptical particles. A developed …

Detailed simulations of flow around various prolate spheroids are performed using multi-
relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The simulations are performed in the …

In this work, the thermal lattice Boltzmann method with immersed moving boundary
conditions has been employed to calculate the drag coefficients and Nusselt numbers for …

To carry out numerical simulations on the particle-laden supercritical water (SCW), one
needs to know drag coefficient (Cd) and average Nusselt number (Nu) of the solid particles …

This paper studies the effect of the incident angle (θ) on momentum and heat transfer of
spheroids in supercritical water (SCW) based on numerical simulations. Both prolate and …

In this paper, a 2D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach combined with 3D discrete
element method (DEM) is extended by incorporating heat, mass transfers, and drying kinetic …

Computation of a three-dimensional uniform, steady Newtonian flow past oblate spheroidal
particles is undertaken. The main objective of the present study is to compute the …