SUMMARYThis paper details an approach to modelling gas-solid fluidized beds using the two-fluid granular temperature model. Details concerning the difficulties associated with the boundary conditions, particularly for curved boundaries, are described along with a novel means of obtaining the internal stress of the solid-phase, in part, by solving an implicit equation. This results in a scheme that is stable even when the solid volume fraction is close to maximum packing. A transient, mixed finite element discretization is used to solve the multi-phase equations with a discontinuous finite element representation of the granular temperature and continuity equations. A new solution method is proposed to solve the coupled momentum and continuity equations based on Arnoldi iteration. Two fluidized beds are modelled, one in the bubbling regime and the other in the slugging regime. These simulations are compared with experiments.
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