Dapelo, Davide ORCID: 0000-0002-3442-6857, Trunk, Robin, Krause, Mathias J and Bridgeman, John ORCID: 0000-0001-8348-5004
(2019)
Towards Lattice-Boltzmann modelling of unconfined gas mixing in anaerobic digestion.
COMPUTERS & FLUIDS, 180.
pp. 11-21.
Abstract
A novel Lattice-Boltzmann model to simulate gas mixing in anaerobic digestion is developed and described. For the first time, Euler–Lagrange multiphase, non-Newtonian and turbulence modelling are applied jontly with a novel hybrid boundary condition. The model is validated in a laboratory-scale framework and flow patterns are assessed through Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) and innovative Positron-Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT). The model is shown to reproduce the experimental flow patterns with fidelity in both qualitative and quantitative terms. The model opens up a new approach to computational modelling of the complex multiphase flow in anaerobic digesters and offers specific advantages, such as computational efficiency, over an analogous Euler-Lagrange finite-volume computational fluid dynamics approach.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Anaerobic digestion, Validation, Homogenised Lattice-Boltzmann method, Boundary conditions, Non-Newtonian, OpenLB |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2023 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 10:20 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.12.008 |
Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.12.008 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3170419 |