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 …

In the past few decades, multi-scale numerical methods have been developed to model
dense gas-solid flow in fluidized beds with different resolutions, accuracies, and efficiencies …

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 …

Oxy-fuel combustion of fossil fuels in circulating fluidized bed (CFB) reactors has been
widely implemented in various industries. However, the knowledge of complex gas thermal …

Circulating fluidized beds (CFBs) have been widely applied in coal combustion and
gasification industry due to their excellent performance in terms of fuel flexibility and …

Multiple cyclones are adopted to enlarge the capacity of circulating fluidized bed (CFB). In
this work, the effect of cyclone arrangements on the gas-solid flow dynamics in the three …

Virtual process engineering (VPE) aims to redefine the roadmap for process scaling-up and
optimization, from stepwise experiments to high-performance computer simulations. This is a …

Despite the wide range of applications, the traditional computational fluid dynamics-discrete
element method (CFD-DEM) simulations have been running into bottlenecks when dealing …

Particle clusters are well acknowledged to affect the hydrodynamics and overall
performance of gas-solid fluidized beds. Since one of the first reports on the clustering …

In the century-long development of fluidization technology, simulation methods have
evolved in response to scientific and engineering demands, which in turn have produced …