• A DNS study of droplet spreading and penetration on a porous medium 

      Das, S.; Milacic, E.; Patel, H.V.; Deen, N.G.; Kuipers, J.A.M. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We have investigated the dynamics of droplet spreading and liquid penetration at the surface of a porous medium at zero-gravity condition. A coupled IBM-VOF finite volume code has been used to perform pore-scale level fully ...
    • Controlled coalescence with local front reconstruction method 

      Rajkotwala, A.H.; Mirsandi, H.; Peters, E.A.J.F.; Baltussen, M.W.; Van Der Geld, C.W.M.; Kuerten, J.G.M.; Kuipers, J.A.M. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The physics of droplet collisions involves a wide range of length scales. This poses a difficulty to accurately simulate such flows with traditional fixed grid methods due to their inability to resolve all scales with ...
    • Direct numerical simulation of coupled heat and mass transfer in fluid‐solid systems 

      Lu, Jiangtao; Peters, E.A.J.F.; Kuipers, J.A.M. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this paper, an efficient ghost-cell based immersed boundary method is introduced to perform direct numerical simulation (DNS) of particulate flows. The fluid-solid coupling is achieved by implicit incorporation of the ...
    • Direct numerical simulation of proppant transport in a narrow channel for hydraulic fracturing application 

      Maitri, R.V.; Koimtzoglou, I.; Das, S.; Kuipers, J.A.M.; Padding, J.T.; Peters, E.A.J.F. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      An efficient and accurate model for the direct numerical simulations (DNS) of liquid-solid flows is presented in this work. In this numerical model, fluid-solid coupling is achieved by implementing the no-slip boundary ...
    • Direct numerical simulation of the effective drag in gas‐liquid‐solid systems 

      Baltussen, Maike W.; Kuipers, J.A.M.; Deen, Niels G. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter, 2017)
      Due to the increase in the oil prices and the depletion of the oil reserves, Fischer-Tropsch processes for the production of synthetic fuels, methanol synthesis and other gas-to-liquid processes are rapidly gaining interest. ...
    • Experimental and numerical investigation of a bubbling dense gas‐solid fluidized bed 

      Yang, Lei; Padding, J.T.; Kuipers, J.A.M. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter, 2017)
      Eulerian models incorporating kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) are widely used to simulate gassolids flow. The most widely used KTGF models have been derived for dilute flows of slightly inelastic, frictionless ...
    • Multiphase Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of Oil-Water Flows Through Homogeneous Porous Rocks 

      Patel, H.V.; Kuipers, J.A.M.; Peters, E.A.J.F. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Water flooding is commonly used to recover oil from porous rocks using pressurized water. Present study focuses on fully resolved pore-scale level multiphase Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of oil-water flows through ...
    • Multiscale approach to fully resolved boundary layers using adaptive grids 

      Panda, A.; Peters, E.A.J.F.; Baltussen, M.W.; Kuipers, J.A.M. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Bubbly flows are omnipresent in most industrial processes. Often the intended use of such processes is to facilitate efficient mass and heat transfer for reactive flows. Mass and heat transfer coupled with fluid flow in ...
    • Stochastic DSMC model for large scale dense bubbly flows 

      Kamath, Satish; Padding, Johan T.; Buist, Kay A.; Kuipers, J.A.M. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Bubble columns are widely used in the chemical industry because of their simple design and high efficiency. The scale-up of these kinds of columns is challenging and time-consuming. Since high throughput is targeted, they ...
    • Viscoelastic flow simulations in disordered porous media 

      De, S.; Kuipers, J.A.M.; Peters, E.A.J.F. (SINTEF Proceedings;2, Chapter; Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We investigate creeping flow of a viscoelastic fluid through a three dimensional random porous medium using computational fluid dynamics. The simulations are performed using a finite volume methodology with a staggered ...