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浙江大学学报(工学版)
Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science)  2019, Vol. 53 Issue (7): 1237-1251    DOI: 10.3785/j.issn.1008-973X.2019.07.002
Mechanical and Energy     
Ultrasonic coupled microreactor CFD-DEM dynamic modeling and regulating method
Shuai ZHENG,Da-peng TAN*(),Lin LI,Yin-long ZHU
College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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Abstract  

An ultrasonic coupled flow flied regulating method was proposed in order to improve the microreactor flow field uniformity and restrain the particle aggregation. A fluid mechanic model for microreactor internal flow field was constructed based on the computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD-DEM), and the regularities of multiphase flow field and particle motion were obtained. The particle collision effects and nonlinear flow field profiles of microreactor channels under ultrasonic excitation were acquired by revising the source item of the realizable k-ε turbulence model. The chaotic states of particle groups were analyzed by the fractal method. The numerical simulations were conducted by taking the T shape confluence microreactor as an instance. Results show that the proposed method can improve the internal flow field uniformity of microreactor, and can restrain the phenomenon of particle aggregation.

Key words： microreactor      ultrasonic excitation      computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD-DEM)      particle aggregation      fractal method     
Received: 10 October 2018      Published: 25 June 2019
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Corresponding Authors: Da-peng TAN     E-mail: tandapeng@zjut.edu.cn
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Shuai ZHENG,Da-peng TAN,Lin LI,Yin-long ZHU. Ultrasonic coupled microreactor CFD-DEM dynamic modeling and regulating method. Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science), 2019, 53(7): 1237-1251.

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微反应器计算流体力学与离散元建模及调控

为了提高微反应器内部流场均匀性，抑制固相颗粒团聚，提出超声波耦合流场强化调控方法. 基于计算流体力学与离散元耦合（CFD-DEM）方法，建立微反应器流体动力学模型，得到微反应器流道的多相流场分布与颗粒运动规律. 对可实现k-ε湍流模型源项进行修正，得到微型反应器在超声波激振作用下的颗粒碰撞冲击效应与内部流场非线性分布特征. 结合分形方法，对流道中的颗粒群混沌态分布进行定量分析. 以T形汇流反应器为例，开展数值仿真研究. 结果表明，超声波耦合流场强化可以提高反应器内的流场分布均匀性，对离散颗粒团聚进行有效的抑制.


关键词： 微型反应器,  超声波激振,  计算流体力学与离散元耦合（CFD-DEM）,  颗粒团聚,  分形方法 
Fig.1 Microreactor flow passage structure diagram
Fig.2 Fractal processing for microreactor flow field recognition
Fig.3 Computation flow chart of CFD-DEM numerical model
Fig.4 Verification of grid independence
Fig.5 Flow field parameter curves by ultrasonic excitation
Fig.6 Velocity cloud charts without ultrasonic excitation
Fig.8 Velocity cloud charts with ultrasonic excitation
Fig.9 Pressure cloud charts with ultrasonic excitation
Fig.7 Pressure cloud charts without ultrasonic excitation
Fig.10 Flow field profiles with different excitation frequency
Fig.11 Particle distributions in microreactor flow passage without ultrasonic excitation
Fig.12 Particle distributions in microreactor flow passage with ultrasonic excitation
Fig.13 Particle volume fraction profiles of characteristic points
Fig.14 Particle velocity profiles of characteristic points
Fig.15 Particle fractal dimension of passage joining point without ultrasonic excitation
Fig.16 Particle fractal dimension of passage buckling point without ultrasonic excitation
Fig.17 Particle fractal dimension of passage joining point with ultrasonic excitation
Fig.18 Particle fractal dimension of passage buckling point with ultrasonic excitation
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