Two-phase turbulence models for simulating dense gas–particle flows

Abstract

The two-fluid model is widely adopted in simulations of dense gas–particle flows in engineering facilities. Present two-phase turbulence models for two-fluid modeling are isotropic. However, turbulence in actual gas–particle flows is not isotropic. Moreover, in these models the two-phase velocity correlation is closed using dimensional analysis, leading to discrepancies between the numerical results, theoretical analysis and experiments. To rectify this problem, some two-phase turbulence models were proposed by the authors and are applied to simulate dense gas–particle flows in downers, risers, and horizontal channels; Experimental results validate the simulation results. Among these models the USM-Θ and the two-scale USM models are shown to give a better account of both anisotropic particle turbulence and particle–particle collision using the transport equation model for the two-phase velocity correlation.