The extended discrete element method (XDEM) multi-physics and multi-scale simulation
platform is being developed at the Institute of Computational Engineering, the University of …

An ironmaking blast furnace is a complex multiphase flow reactor involving gas, powder,
liquid and solid phases. Understanding the flow behaviour of these phases is of paramount …

An ironmaking blast furnace (BF) is a moving bed reactor involving counter-, co-, and cross-
current flows of gas, powder, liquids, and solids, coupled with heat exchange and chemical …

In order to investigate the influences of applying catalysts on pulverized coal injection (PCI)
and blast furnace (BF) operations, the catalytic combustion of two kinds of pulverized coals …

Discrete particle simulation (DPS) has been applied to multiphase flow modelling in an
ironmaking blast furnace (BF), including burden distribution at the top, gas–solid flow in the …

Gas-fine flow in a packed bed with lateral injection is numerically studied to understand the
distribution and clogging behaviors of fine particles. A variety of variables (eg, diameter ratio …

To address the problems about the difficulty in accurate recognition of distribution features of
gas flow center at blast furnace throat and determine the relationship between gas flow …

Data-driven models are used to solve many objective blast furnace problems by using
evolutionary approach. The process variables and the objectives of the blast furnace are …

Data driven models are constructed for the tuyere cooling heat loss, total blast furnace gas
flow, tuyere velocity, productivity, and coke rate for an operational blast furnace of an …

The complex fluid-particle-fine (FPf) reacting flows have been widely practised in many
energy-intensive engineering processes, yet numerical methods capable of …