Numerical simulation of instantaneous flow structure of swirling and non-swirling coaxial-jet particle-laden turbulence flows

Y. Liu, L.X. Zhou and C.X. Xu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2010, vol. 389, issue 23, 5380-5389

Abstract: A subgrid scale two-phase second-order-moment (SGS-SOM) model based on the two-fluid continuum approach is presented for the analysis of the instantaneous flow structures of swirling and non-swirling coaxial-jet particle-laden turbulence flows. Since the interaction between the two-phase subgrid scale stresses and the anisotropy of two-phase subgrid scale stresses is fully considered, it is superior to the conventional subgrid scale model on the basis of single gas phase or together with their similar forms for the particle phase for not taken these characters thoroughly into account. The swirling numbers s=0.47 and s=0 of coaxial-jet particle-laden turbulence flows (measured by M. Sommerfeld, H.H. Qiu, Detailed measurements in a swirling particulate two-phase flow by a phase Doppler anemometer, Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow 12 (1991) 20–28) are numerically simulated by large eddy simulation using this model, together with a Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes model using the unified second-order-moment two-phase turbulence model (RANS-USM). The instantaneous results show that the multiple recirculating gas flow structure is similar to that of single-phase swirling flows; but the particle flow structure contains less vortices. Both SGS-SOM and RANS-USM predicted that the two-phase time-averaged velocities and the root-mean-square fluctuation velocities are validated and are in good agreement with the experimental results. It is seen that for the two-phase time-averaged velocities both the models give almost the same results, hence the RANS-USM modeling is validated by large eddy simulation. For the two-phase root-mean-square fluctuation velocities the SGS-SOM results are obviously better than the RANS-USM results.

Keywords: SGS-SOM two-phase stress model; Large eddy simulation; Swirling and non-swirling particle-laden flows; Numerical simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.08.014

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