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Fluent's well-established granular flow modeling
is central to progress made by SINTEF Materials
and Chemistry for chemical-looping combustion,
an important technology in reducing emissions.
Developing fundamental models was eased with
user-defined functions (UDFs) compiled within the
stable, parallelized solver.
Using the Euler–granular model, simulating the effect
of hardware on distribution of droplets and catalyst
for a fluidized catalytic cracking unit can lead to a
better understanding of riser reactor performance.
Parallel scalability results (black) of aerodynamics
simulation, 111 million cells, compared with ideal (red)
ANSYS Fluent is the first commercial CFD code
to provide innovative adjoint solver technology.
This tool provides optimization information that
is difficult or cumbersome to determine. Because
it estimates the effect of a given parameter on
system performance — prior to actually modifying
the parameter — the adjoint solver further
increases simulation speed and, more importantly,
contributes to innovation.
Courtesy
KBC
Advanced
Technologies.
