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 …

Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

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 …

With increasing the computational resources, the number of publications about coupled
computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method is in the rise in the recent years. This …

A user-defined solver towards the high-fidelity CFD-DEM method with thermochemical sub-
models integrating is developed based on the open-source MFIX-DEM software for …

For a single isolated particle, the effect of overlap displacement on conduction and the effect
of particle diameter/fluid velocity on convection are comprehensively studied using a CFD …

Over the past decade, DEM-based simulation has become a promising alternative to
physical measurements of thermal particulate systems. Despite their rapid advancement and …

In this study, the multiphase flow and thermochemical behaviours of char combustion in a
bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) are simulated using CFD-DEM approach featuring particle size …

Particle thermal radiation plays a significant role in many heat transport devices, such as
pebble-bed high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors (HTGR). The effect of particle …

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 …