Title: A novel method to include the free surface in a CFD model of jet injection into partially-baffled mixing vessels

Authors: Jean-Philippe Torre, Peter Higgins, Catherine Xuereb, David F. Fletcher

Addresses: Universite de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Genie Chimique, 6 allee Emile Monso, BP 34038, 31029 Toulouse, France; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. ' LEAP Australia, Suite 6, 750 Blackburn Rd., Clayton North, VIC 3168, Australia. ' Universite de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Genie Chimique, Toulouse, France. ' School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract: A novel methodology that can be used to perform simulations of fluid jet injection into a mixing vessel with a deformed free surface is presented and validated. The idea is to first use a two-fluid model to determine the location and shape of the free surface, and then results from the simulation are used to generate a single-phase model that has the same free surface shape. Example simulations are performed using ANSYS CFX for a pilot-scale partially-baffled vessel. Application of the methodology in the study of reaction quenching is presented but it is believed that this methodology has many other possible applications involving fluid or solid injection.

Keywords: CFD; computational fluid dynamics; free surfaces; partially-baffled mixing vessels; quenching; jet injection; solids addition; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2009.027367

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2009 Vol.9 No.6/7, pp.368 - 374

Published online: 21 Jul 2009 *

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