Parscale - an open-source library for the simulation of intra-particle heat and mass transport processes in coupled simulations

Abstract

We introduce the open-source library ParScale for the modeling of intra-particle transport processes in non-isothermal reactive fluid-particle flows. The underlying equations, the code architecture, as well as the coupling strategy to the widely-used DEM solver LIGGGHTS is presented. A set of verification cases, embedded into an automated test harness, is presented that proofs the functionality of ParScale. To demonstrate the capabilities of ParScale, we perform simulations of a non-isothermal granular shear flow including heat transfer to the surrounding fluid. We present results for the conductive heat flux through the particle bed for a wide range of dimensionless cooling rates and particle volume fractions. Our data suggests that intra-particle temperature gradients need to be considered for an accurate prediction of the conductive flux in case of (i) a dense particle bed and (ii) for large cooling rates characterized by a critical Biot number of ca Bicrit ≈ 0.1

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