Abstract

Multiphase large-eddy simulations of a particle-laden turbulent flow in a helically rib-roughened pipe were performed for Re=10000,16000, and 20000 by using an Euler–Lagrange approach. Cyclic boundary conditions were imposed to the continuous as well as the dispersed phase, to get a fully developed particle-laden turbulent flow and a constant deposition rate Ṅd of the solid particles. The validation of the computation of the turbulent continuous and the disperse phase by the cyclic Euler–Lagrange approach, as well as the deposition of the particles, is based on particle-laden backward-facing step and cyclic duct flow simulations. An adhesion model, dependent on a critical particle velocity up,crit, and a removal model, dependent on a critical wall-shear stress τw,crit, were added to the ribbed pipe flow simulations to take the physical effect of particle rebound and particle removal into account. Simulation results of deposition rates Ṅd and deposition velocities ud+ for a variety of particle diameters Dp and model parameters are investigated. The simulations showed that significantly less particle adhere to the wall when taking into account the adhesion and removal model. A self-cleaning effect of the almost entire pipe wall at specific particle diameters Dp or particle relaxation times τp+ due to wall-shear stress removal could be found as well as a limit value from which the effect of this kind of removal is reduced.

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