A review of recent development for the CFD-DEM investigations of non-spherical particles

H Ma, L Zhou, Z Liu, M Chen, X Xia, Y Zhao - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Multi-scale modeling of plastic waste gasification: opportunities and challenges

S Madanikashani, LA Vandewalle, S De Meester… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Among the different thermo-chemical recycling routes for plastic waste valorization,
gasification is one of the most promising, converting plastic waste into syngas (H2+ CO) and …

The influence of Stefan flow on the flow and heat-transfer characteristics of spherical-particle pair in supercritical water

Y Wang, M Zhang, H Wang, H Jin - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2022 - Elsevier
For any flow process of mixtures containing dispersed reactive particles, especially highly
concentrated particles, the particle-particle, and fluid-particle interactions are very complex …

Influence of Stefan flow on the drag coefficient and heat transfer of a spherical particle in a supercritical water cross flow

H Jin, Y Wang, H Wang, Z Wu, X Li - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction between the fluid and particles is the key to obtain accurate flow and heat
transfer rules. For a reactive particle, the Stefan flow will affect the mass, momentum, and …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of physical properties of supercritical water on coarse graining of particle cluster

X Li, H Wang, Y Li, H Jin - Particuology, 2023 - Elsevier
The coarse graining of particle cluster is of great significance to the study of a fluidized bed.
The effects of variations in the physical properties of supercritical water on the coarse …

Drag coefficients of non-spherical and irregularly shaped particles

EE Michaelides, Z Feng - Journal of Fluids …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
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 …

The effect of particle wake on the heat transfer characteristics between interactive particles in supercritical water

X Li, Z Wu, H Wang, H Jin - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The effect of particle wake on the heat transfer characteristics between interactive particles
in supercritical water is simulated and analyzed. The main influencing factors include …

Direct numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer of a reactive particle layer with Stefan flow in supercritical water

Y Wang, H Wang, H Jin - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Supercritical water gasification is an efficient and clean way of energy conversion. The
research on different scales, such as the system, reactor, and particle, has different temporal …

Numerical prediction on the minimum fluidization velocity of a supercritical water fluidized bed reactor: Effect of particle size distributions

H Zhang, Y Huang, X An, A Yu, J Xie - Powder Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The minimum fluidization velocity of a supercritical water fluidization bed reactor (SCWFBR)
is numerically nvestigated based on coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete …

Drag and heat transfer coefficients for axisymmetric nonspherical particles: A LBM study

Y Chen, P Jiang, T Xiong, W Wei, Z Fang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …