Mixing of Carbon Dioxide and Ethanol (VOF) CFD Simulation
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The present problem simulates the mixing of two substances including carbon dioxide and ethanol in a rectangular tank applying VOF model.
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Description
Project Description
The present problem simulates the mixing of two substances including carbon dioxide and ethanol in a rectangular tank. The VOF multiphase model has been used to simulate the present model. The constituents of this process include carbon dioxide with a molecular weight of 44.00995 kg.kmol-1 and ethanol with a molecular weight of 28.966 kg.kmol-1. The input flow enters the tank from the lower part with a temperature of 300 K. The inlet flow pressure is variable and time dependent. For this purpose, the pressure inlet boundary condition at the input boundary is used, which has a UDF in the form 8000000 + 66666.666 * t. This simulation process was performed in 180 s with a time step of 0.5 s.
Geometry & Mesh
The present model is drawn in two dimensions using Design Modeler software. The present model consists of a vertical rectangular tank for mixing materials with dimensions of 0.06 m * 0.3 m, which has an inlet section at the bottom with a width of 0.002 m. The following figure shows a view of the geometry.
The meshing of the model is done using ANSYS Meshing software and the mesh type is structured. The element number is 73788. The following figure shows a view of the mesh in zoomed mode.
CFD Simulation
To simulate the present model, several assumptions are considered:
- We perform a pressure-based solver.
- The simulation is unsteady. Because the model examines the changes in the volume fraction of existing phases over time.
- The gravity effect on the fluid is equal to -9.81 m.s-2 along the Y-axis.
A summary of the defining steps of the problem and its solution is given in the following table:
| Models | |||
| Viscous Model | k-epsilon | ||
| k-epsilon model | standard | ||
| near-wall treatment | standard wall function | ||
| Multi phase Model | Volume of Fluid | ||
| number of Eulerian phases | 2 (CO2 & ethanol) | ||
| formulation | Implicit | ||
| type of interface modeling | sharp | ||
| Energy | on | ||
| Boundary conditions | |||
| Inlet | Pressure Inlet | ||
| gauge total pressure | UDF | ||
| total temperature | 300 K | ||
| Walls | Wall | ||
| wall motion | stationary wall | ||
| heat flux | 0 W.m-2 | ||
| Solution Methods | |||
| Pressure-velocity coupling | SIMPLE | ||
| Spatial discretization | pressure | PRESTO | |
| density | second order upwind | ||
| momentum | second order upwind | ||
| volume fraction | compressive | ||
| turbulent kinetic energy | first order upwind | ||
| turbulent dissipation rate | first order upwind | ||
| energy | second order upwind | ||
| Initialization | |||
| Initialization method | Standard | ||
| gauge pressure | 0 pascal | ||
| x-velocity , y-velocity | 0 m.s-1 | ||
| temperature | 300 K | ||
Mixing Results
At the end of the solution process, two-dimensional contours of temperature, pressure, velocity, and volume fraction for each of the ethanol and carbon dioxide phases are obtained. These contours are obtained at the last second of the simulation process interval.
All files, including Geometry, Mesh, Case & Data, are available in Simulation File. By the way, Training File presents how to solve the problem and extract all desired results.
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