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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12571 |
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| author | Sadowski, Wojciech Velten, Christin Brömmer, Maximilian Demir, Hakan Hülz, Kerstin di Mare, Francesca Zähringer, Katharina Scherer, Viktor |
| author_facet | Sadowski, Wojciech Velten, Christin Brömmer, Maximilian Demir, Hakan Hülz, Kerstin di Mare, Francesca Zähringer, Katharina Scherer, Viktor |
| contents | The present study focuses on the gas flow through an experiment-scale modular packed bed reactor consisting of square bars, arranged in layers. Each layer is rotated by $30^\circ$ resulting in a complex shape of the void spaces between the bars. Particle Image Velocimetry measurement results inside and on top of the studied system are presented for particle-based Reynolds numbers of 100 and 200, and used as validation data for two sets of particle-resolved numerical simulations, using boundary conforming meshing strategy and treating the solid boundaries via the blocked-off method. The flow inside the bed is largely independent from the Reynolds number and seems to be determined by the geometry of the void spaces. The flow in the freeboard is dominated by the presence of slowly dissipating jets downstream of the bed, which are characterized by unsteady oscillations at the higher Reynolds number. The numerical results obtained with both methods are in good agreement with the measurements, both inside and above the bed. However, stronger deviations between the results can be observed in the freeboard and can be traced to numerical properties of the current simulation approaches. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Low Reynolds number flow in a packed bed of rotated bars Sadowski, Wojciech Velten, Christin Brömmer, Maximilian Demir, Hakan Hülz, Kerstin di Mare, Francesca Zähringer, Katharina Scherer, Viktor Fluid Dynamics The present study focuses on the gas flow through an experiment-scale modular packed bed reactor consisting of square bars, arranged in layers. Each layer is rotated by $30^\circ$ resulting in a complex shape of the void spaces between the bars. Particle Image Velocimetry measurement results inside and on top of the studied system are presented for particle-based Reynolds numbers of 100 and 200, and used as validation data for two sets of particle-resolved numerical simulations, using boundary conforming meshing strategy and treating the solid boundaries via the blocked-off method. The flow inside the bed is largely independent from the Reynolds number and seems to be determined by the geometry of the void spaces. The flow in the freeboard is dominated by the presence of slowly dissipating jets downstream of the bed, which are characterized by unsteady oscillations at the higher Reynolds number. The numerical results obtained with both methods are in good agreement with the measurements, both inside and above the bed. However, stronger deviations between the results can be observed in the freeboard and can be traced to numerical properties of the current simulation approaches. |
| title | Low Reynolds number flow in a packed bed of rotated bars |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12571 |