Vortex-In-Cell Simulation of Free Falling Particulate Jet

Abstract

A two-way coupling three-dimensional Vortex-In-Cell (VIC) method is developed for the simulation of gas-solid turbulent flow. The evolution of vortex elements and the motion of solid particles are tracked in the Lagrangian frame, while the flow field is solved by the vorticity Poisson equation on the Eulerian grid. Two-way coupling is implemented by introducing a vorticity source term induced by the motion of particle. This method is applied to simulate the particulate jet generated by solid particles falling from a circular orifice into unbounded quiescent air. The simulation results agree well with the experiment conducted by Ogata, which confirmed the validation of this method. The simulation results demonstrate that the air velocity radial distribution due to the particulate jet satisfies Gaussian distribution. The particle flow rate has little influence on the spread of particles, while velocity of particles increases with increasing the particle flow rate.