Numerical Simulation of Heat Transport in Dispersed Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow using a Front Tracking Approach

Deen, Niels G. and Sint Annaland van, Martin and Kuipers, J.A.M. (2007) Numerical Simulation of Heat Transport in Dispersed Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow using a Front Tracking Approach. In: 6th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF 2007, July 9-13, 2007, Leipzig, Germany.

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Abstract:	In this paper a simulation model is presented for the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of heat transport in dispersed gas-liquid two-phase flow using the Front Tracking (FT) approach. Our model extends the FT model developed by van Sint Annaland et al. (2006) to non-isothermal conditions. In FT an unstructured dynamic mesh is used to represent and track the interface explicitly by a number of interconnected marker points. The Lagrangian representation of the interface avoids the necessity to reconstruct the interface from the local distribution of the fractions of the phases and, moreover, allows a direct and accurate calculation of the surface tension force circumventing the (problematic) computation of the interface curvature. The extended model is applied to predict the heat exchange rate between the liquid and a hot wall kept at a fixed temperature. It is found that the wall-to-liquid heat transfer coefficient exhibits a maximum in the vicinity of the bubble that can be attributed to the locally decreased thickness of the thermal boundary layer.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Engineering Technology (CTW)
Research Group:	Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering (FAP)
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