TY - JOUR
TI - Eulerian-Lagrangian simulation of a bubbling fluidized bed reactor: Assessment of drag force correlations
AU - Ku Xiao-Ke
AU - Li Tian
AU - Lovas Terese
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2012
VL - 16
IS - 5
SP - 1442
EP - 1145
PT - Article
AB - An Eulerian-Lagrangian approach is developed within the OpenFOAM framework to  investigate the effects of three well-known inter-phase drag force  correlations on the fluidization behavior in a bubbling fluidized bed  reactor. The results show a strong dependency on the restitution coefficient  and the friction coefficient and no occurrence of bubbling and slugging for  the ideal-collision case. The mean pressure drops predicted by the three  models agree quite well with each other.