which solver should be choose about a stirred tank?

sharonyue · October 24, 2012, 00:28

Hi Foamers

I want to simulate a gas- liquid stirred tank . when the agitator blade is running the gas is injected at the bottom.
I check out the solvers , bubbleFoam and twoPhaseeulerFoam maybe suitable for this. but twoPhaseeulerFoam has lots paremeters which bubbleFoam dont have.
so which solvers should I pick?
Thanks very much.

before I simulate the stirred tank, I try to simulate air being injected into water using twoPhaseEulerFoam.
seems like both air and water should be continuous phase， but in twoPhaseEulerFoam I have to set a dispersed phase. even if I set the air or the water is the dispersed phase, how can I know the da or db?

sharonyue · October 25, 2012, 08:14

can anybody help me about this? I have been obstructed by this for two days.

jiez · October 25, 2012, 10:00

Hi sharonyue,

I'm also working on this issue right now. I tried interFoam as well. I would suggest you to test these solvers first by comparing with experimental data.

There is another thread about this issue
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...ated-tank.html

Jie

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October 25, 2012, 08:14		#2
sharonyue Senior Member Dongyue Li Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Beijing, China Posts: 849 Rep Power: 18	can anybody help me about this? I have been obstructed by this for two days.

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jiez New Member Jie (Jay) Zhang Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ, U.S. Posts: 28 Rep Power: 16	Hi sharonyue, I'm also working on this issue right now. I tried interFoam as well. I would suggest you to test these solvers first by comparing with experimental data. There is another thread about this issue http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...ated-tank.html Jie