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Influence of bundle porosity on shell-side hydrodynamics and mass transfer in regular fiber arrays: A computational study

  • Autori: Cancilla N.; Gurreri L.; La Rosa M.; Ciofalo M.; Cipollina A.; Tamburini A.; Micale G.
  • Anno di pubblicazione: 2023
  • Tipologia: Articolo in rivista
  • OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/584914

Abstract

CFD predictions of the effects of a fiber bundle porosity on shell-side hydrodynamics and mass transfer under conditions of steady laminar flow were obtained. Fluid was assumed to flow around regular hexag-onal or square arrays of cylindrical fibers of different pitch to diameter ratios, yielding bundle porosities ranging from the theoretical minimum up to similar to 1. A large number of axial, transverse and mixed flow combinations were simulated by letting the axial and transverse flow Reynolds numbers and the trans-verse flow attack angle vary. Both fully developed and developing conditions (entrance effects) were con-sidered. The continuity and momentum equations, along with a transport equation for the concentra-tion of a high-Schmidt number solute, were solved by a finite volume CFD code. Fully developed condi-tions were simulated by the well-established "unit cell" approach, in which the computational domain is two-dimensional and includes a single fiber with the associated fluid, periodic boundary conditions are imposed between all opposite sides and compensative terms are introduced to account for large-scale longitudinal or transversal gradients. Developing flow was studied by using a fully three-dimensional computational domain. Predictions were validated against experimental, computational and analytic liter-ature results. The simulations showed that lattices with different porosities exhibit a qualitatively similar behavior, but differ significantly in important quantities such as the Darcy permeability, the Sherwood number and the hydrodynamic and mass transfer development length.