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Applied Thermal Engineering 25 (2005) 3083–3103 /locate/apthermeng Eulerian approach for multiphase flow simulation in a glass melter S.L. Chang a,z , C.Q. Zhou b,*, B. Golchert a a Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA b Purdue University Calumet, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hammond, IN 46323, USA Received 22 January 2004; accepted 28 March 2005 Available online 22 June 2005 Abstract A glass furnace, consisting of a combustion space and a glass melter, uses combustion heat to melt sand and cullet into liquid glass to make products. Glass quality is mainly dependent on the temperature, glass composition, and the level of impurities in a glass melter, which include solid batch/cullet particles, liquid glass, and gas bubbles. A comprehensive computational model using an Eulerian approach has been devel- oped to simulate multiphase flows in a glass melter. It includes all the phases, divides solid particles or gas bubbles into various size groups, and treats each group as a continuum. The derived mass, momentum, and energy conservation equations of the flow are solved for local properties for each phase. The simulation considers the heating and melting of the batch (mainly from the radiative heat from combustion and from the convective heat from the molten glass), the formation and transport of bubbles, and the heating and mixing of the liquid glass. The approach was incorporated into a multiphase reacting flow computational fluid dynamics code that simulates overall glass furnace flows to evaluate the glass quality and furnace efficiency. 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Ke