Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15255/CABEQ.2014.2056
Free Surface Turbulent Flow in an Unbaffled Stirred Tank: Detached Eddy Simulation and VOF Study
F. L. Yang
; a)School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China; b)Key Laboratory of High Efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture (Shandong University), Ministry of Education, Jinan 250061, China
S. J. Zhou
; a)School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China; b)Key Laboratory of High Efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture (Shandong University), Ministry of Education, Jinan 250061, China
Abstract
Numerical simulations based on the RANS model are known to have drawbacks of low accuracy in predicting the turbulence quantities of the flow fields in stirred tanks. For this purpose, the detached eddy simulation (DES) model was employed to simulate the turbulent flow in an unbaffled dish-bottom stirred tank. The free-surface deformation
was modelled by the volume of fluid (VOF) method. The numerical predictions were validated with LDV measurements reported by Haque et al. (Haque, J. N., Mahmud, T., Roberts, K. J., Liang, J. K., White, G., Wilkinson, D., Rhodes, D., Can. J. Chem. Eng. 89 (2011) 745)11. The results show that the predicted surface profiles using the combination
of DES and VOF are generally better than their counterparts obtained by the k-ε model. The mean velocity components and turbulent kinetic energy are in good agreement with the experimental results. By comparison, the differences between the k-ε predictions and
the LDV data are much greater. These findings indicate that DES works better than k-ε model in the prediction of the free-surface hydrodynamics in stirred tanks.
Keywords
stirred tank; free surface flow, turbulence; detached eddy simulation (DES); volume of fluid (VOF)
Hrčak ID:
147005
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Publication date:
14.10.2015.
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