68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 22, 2015 — November 24, 2015)

V0057: Simulations of fully resolved turbulent bubbly flows in various geometries

Authors
  • Jun Fang, North Carolina State University
  • Michel Rasquin, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Igor Bolotnov, North Carolina State University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2015.GFM.V0057

Large scale fully resolved bubbly flow simulations is the emerging capability which is giving promising results in understanding the multiphase flow behavour. The presented video demonstrates the large scale simulations (more than two billion elements) for four different geometries: parallel plate channel; circular pipe; a single subchannel geometry from a nuclear reactor core and a 2x2 subchannel geometry with fully resolved spacer grids and mixing vanes from a pressurized water reactor core. We also show mean velocity, turbulent kinetic energy and void fraction distributions collected from the presented simulations.

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