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Adaptive mesh refinement of gas-liquid flow on an inclined plane

Adaptive mesh refinement of gas-liquid flow on an inclined plane
Adaptive mesh refinement of gas-liquid flow on an inclined plane
Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) is one of the various methods that can be used to reduce the carbon footprint of the energy sector. The efficiency with which CO2 is absorbed from flue gas using packed columns is highly dependent on the structure of the liquid films that form on the packing materials. This work examines the hydrodynamics of these liquid films using the CFD solver, OpenFOAM to solve two-phase, isothermal, non-reacting flow using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. Local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is used to ensure improved resolution of the geometrical grids at the gas-liquid interface. Comparisons are made between the solutions obtained using AMR and those obtained using highly refined static meshes. It was observed that local AMR produced results with much better correlation to experimental data
0098-1354
297-306
Cooke, J.J.
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Armstrong, L.M.
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Luo, K.H.
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Cooke, J.J., Armstrong, L.M., Luo, K.H. and Gu, S. (2014) Adaptive mesh refinement of gas-liquid flow on an inclined plane. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 60, 297-306. (doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2013.09.007).

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Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) is one of the various methods that can be used to reduce the carbon footprint of the energy sector. The efficiency with which CO2 is absorbed from flue gas using packed columns is highly dependent on the structure of the liquid films that form on the packing materials. This work examines the hydrodynamics of these liquid films using the CFD solver, OpenFOAM to solve two-phase, isothermal, non-reacting flow using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. Local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is used to ensure improved resolution of the geometrical grids at the gas-liquid interface. Comparisons are made between the solutions obtained using AMR and those obtained using highly refined static meshes. It was observed that local AMR produced results with much better correlation to experimental data

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e-pub ahead of print date: 3 October 2013
Published date: 10 January 2014
Organisations: Engineering Science Unit

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Local EPrints ID: 361045
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/361045
ISSN: 0098-1354
PURE UUID: a3525e2a-b421-4c2a-b48a-f366074b76ca

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Date deposited: 13 Jan 2014 09:29
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 15:45

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Author: J.J. Cooke
Author: L.M. Armstrong
Author: K.H. Luo
Author: S. Gu

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