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Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer Through Beds of Spheres Using COMSOL

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Fluid flow and heat transfer in fixed beds with tube to particle diameter ratios of N=3 and N=5.96 were simulated using COMSOL, a multiphysics program. The geometries of these models consisted of 55 and 400 spheres respectively. This type of study is traditionally done using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package, however, in this study it was desired to see how well a multiphysics package could compare. Results obtained from COMSOL were compared to data from published studies which performed similar simulations using a CFD package, and the data agreed relatively well. So COMSOL is a useful tool for simulating these types of models.

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  • E-project-081611-112631
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  • 2011
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  • 2011-08-16
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