基于离散颗粒法模拟搅拌釜气含率分布_英文_.pdfVIP

Chin. J. Chem. Eng., 15(6) 808813 (2007) Numerical Simulation of Gas Holdup Distribution in a Standard * Rushton Stirred Tank Using Discrete Particle Method HAN Luchang(), LIU Yuejin()** and LUO He’an() College of Chemical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China Abstract The discrete particle method was used to simulate the distribution of gas holdup in a gas-liquid standard Rushton stirred tank. The gas phase was treated as a large number of bubbles and their trajectories were tracked with the results of motion equations. The two-way approach was performed to couple the interphase momentum exchange. The turbulent dispersion of bubbles with a size distribution was modeled using a stochastic tracking model, and the added mass force was involved to account for the effect of bubble acceleration on the surrounding fluid. The predicted gas holdup distribution showed that this method could give reasonable prediction comparable to the reported experimental data when the effect of turbulence was took into account in modification for drag coef- ficient. Keywords numerical simulation, gas holdup, stirred tank, discrete particle 1 INTRODUCTION quasi-fluid method[5]. An unsteady bubble flows with For multiphase flow modeling, there were mainly low frequency oscillation in a three-dimensional bub- two approaches for the dispersed phase, namely the ble column was simulated by Buwa et al.[6] , whose quasi-fluid or Eulerian[14] method and the discrete model involved the lift force and add mass force