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 …

An optimized Eulerian–Lagrangian method for two-phase flow with coarse particles: Implementation in open-source field operation and manipulation, verification, and …

Y Zhang, XB Lu, XH Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The solid–liquid two-phase flow with coarse particles is ubiquitous in natural phenomena
and engineering practice, which is characterized by coarse particles, high particle …

Numerical simulation on transportation behavior of dense coarse particles in vertical pipe with an optimized Eulerian–Lagrangian method

Y Zhang, XB Lu, XH Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Solid–liquid two-phase flow with dense coarse particles in the pipeline exists widely in
energy and resources engineering, especially in the prospective hydraulic lifting scenario of …

A novel numerical method for grouting simulation in flowing water considering uneven spatial and temporal distribution of slurry: Two-Fluid Tracking (TFT) method

ZH Xu, ZH Bu, DD Pan, DY Li, YC Zhang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
To address the issue of uneven spatial and temporal distribution of slurry viscosity in the
grouting process, we propose a novel numerical method for grouting in flowing water based …

Calculation of particle volume fraction in computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method simulation of particulate flows with coarse particles

Y Zhang, WL Ren, P Li, XH Zhang, XB Lu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method is frequently used for modeling
particulate flows due to its high efficiency and satisfactory accuracy. The particle volume …

Characterization of unsteady cavitating flow regimes around a hydrofoil, based on an extended Schnerr–Sauer model coupled with a nucleation model

MG De Giorgi, D Fontanarosa, A Ficarella - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work is aimed at the numerical spatio-temporal characterization of the unsteady
cavitating flow structures on a hydrofoil by means of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition …

[HTML][HTML] Computational fluid dynamics simulations of phase separation in dispersed oil-water pipe flows

J Chen, C Anastasiou, S Cheng, NM Basha… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The separation of liquid–liquid dispersions in horizontal pipes is common in many industrial
sectors. It remains challenging, however, to predict the separation characteristics of the flow …

Modeling transport of membrane water in PEMFC and energy loss analysis at− 20° C based on mathematical boundedness

Y Chen, L Chen, WQ Tao - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This work analyzes why the classic cold start-up model cannot match experimental data well
in high initial membrane water content due to the unboundedness of membrane water …

A Novel Grouting Simulation Method Considering Diffusion and Loss of Slurry in Flowing Water: Interphase Miscible-Transport Time-Tracking (IM-3T) Method

Z Xu, Y Zhang, D Pan, Z Bu - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Grouting is a complex process involving interactions of slurry and water phase. The viscosity
of slurry is of spatiotemporal variation and significant loss of slurry was observed in grouting …

Comparison of Eulerian QBMM and classical Eulerian–Eulerian method for the simulation of polydisperse bubbly flows

D Li, D Marchisio, C Hasse, D Lucas - AIChE Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial gas distribution of poly‐disperse bubbly flows depends greatly on the bubble
size. To reflect the resulting polycelerity, more than two momentum balance equations …