A comparison of CFD software packages' ability to model a submerged jet

Alasdair MacKenzie; A Lopez; K Ritos; M T Stickland; W M Dempster

A comparison of CFD software packages' ability to model a submerged jet

Alasdair MacKenzie, A Lopez, K Ritos, M T Stickland, W M Dempster

Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

Particle erosion from slurry flow is a common problem in many industrial applications, including the mining and the oil and gas industry. Erosion modelling is a known complex problem, and consists of three equally important parts; fluid flow modelling, particulate flow modelling, and erosion modelling. It is the first of these, the fluid flow, which is analysed here. The paper compares three different computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software packages,
ANSYS Fluent, Star-CCM+ and OpenFOAM, on their ability to model the fluid phase in the submerged jet impingement test. The computational results were verified by results from an experimental rig where the fluid flow was measured by particle image velocimetry (PIV). Despite the apparent simplicity of the jet impingement test, this paper highlights the difficulties of capturing the
experimental results with computational methods.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 11th International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
Place of Publication	Dickson, Australia
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 7 Dec 2015
Event	Eleventh International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries - Australia, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 7 Dec 2015 → 9 Dec 2015

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Conference	Eleventh International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	7/12/15 → 9/12/15

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
particulate erosion
laser Doppler velocimetry
particle image velocimetry
shear stress transport

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