Lagrangian Particle Tracking

14. 5 Release

Multiphase Flow Modeling

in ANSYS CFX
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 Overview
• General description

• Particle tracking in ANSYS CFX

• Particle transport equations

• Particle integration algorithm

• General setup of particle tracking in ANSYS CFX

• Particle injection

• Turbulent dispersion

• Wall Treatment

• Particle integration controls

• Particle variables as vertex variables

•
Particle-particle collisions
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 Introduction

• Method for modeling particle laden flows

• A representative
representative sample of particles is tracked through the continuous fluid

• Ordinary differential
differential equations (ODE) are integrated
integrated for position and
a nd

velocity of each particle

• The overall mass flow rate of the particle phase
phas e is shared amongst the
representative
represen tative particles, so each particle has its own mass flow rate, and its
own number rate

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 Lagrangian or Eulerian?

• Lagrangian particle tracking is an alternative to Eulerian-Eulerian

multiphase modeling. Care should be taken to choose the better
method for the application!

• The same physics is essentially modeled

• Although particles have an associated diameter, they are modeled as

moving points, so they take up no volume of the continuous fluid.
Particle-particle
Particle-particle interactions are also neglected and thus the model is
only applicable at low volume fractions

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 Simplifying Assumptions
•  Moving particle is treated as a moving mass point
 –  Abstraction from particle shape and volume 

•  Details of the flow around the particle are neglected, e.g.

 –  Near particle flow field
 –  Vortex shedding
 –  Flow separation
 –  Boundary layers

•  Local properties of the dispersed phase are predicted from spatial aver
averaging
aging
over particle trajectories which are crossing a certain (control) volume

•  Not possible to predict the tracks of all physical particles

 –  Use concept of representative particle trajectories

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