[HTML][HTML] Progress in CFD simulations of fluidized beds for chemical and energy process engineering

F Alobaid, N Almohammed, MM Farid, J May… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Review of atomization and mixing characteristics of pintle injectors

F Zhao, H Zhang, H Zhang, B Bai, L Zhao - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
To promote the design and optimization as well as a deeper understanding of pintle
injectors further, the progress on atomization and mixing characteristics of pintle injectors …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

The dynamics of milk droplet–droplet collisions

G Finotello, RF Kooiman, JT Padding, KA Buist… - Experiments in …, 2018 - Springer
Spray drying is an important industrial process to produce powdered milk, in which
concentrated milk is atomized into small droplets and dried with hot gas. The characteristics …

Experimental investigation of non-Newtonian droplet collisions: the role of extensional viscosity

G Finotello, S De, JCR Vrouwenvelder, JT Padding… - Experiments in …, 2018 - Springer
We investigate the collision behaviour of a shear thinning non-Newtonian fluid xanthan, by
binary droplet collision experiments. Droplet collisions of non-Newtonian fluids are more …

A volume-of-fluid-based method for mass transfer processes at fluid particles

D Bothe, S Fleckenstein - Chemical Engineering Science, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a VOF-based numerical method for simulating mass transfer across
deformable fluid interfaces. The underlying mathematical model is based on continuum …

CFD simulation of agglomeration and coalescence in spray dryer

F Hussain, M Jaskulski, M Piatkowski… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Particle size distribution is of utmost importance in spray dryers. Controlling the degree of
agglomeration and coalescence is vital for manufacturing products that conform to the …

Advances in modelling of binary droplet collision outcomes in sprays: a review of available knowledge

M Sommerfeld, L Pasternak - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2019 - Elsevier
The present article summarises the requirements for modelling droplet binary collisions in
the frame of a Lagrangian point-particle tracking approach. The essential ingredients of such …

Coalescence and mixing dynamics of droplets in acoustic levitation by selective colour imaging and measurement

K Honda, K Fujiwara, K Hasegawa, A Kaneko… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic levitation is well-suited to 'lab-on-a-drop'contactless chemical analysis of droplets.
Rapid mixing is of fundamental importance in lab-on-a-drop platforms and many other …

Effects of gas and droplet characteristics on drop-drop collision outcome regimes

KG Krishnan, E Loth - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2015 - Elsevier
Droplet-droplet collisions occur in many spray systems. The collision of two spherical
droplets in a gas is considered in terms of the five primary phenomenological outcomes …