Study of hydrodynamics performance of a multi-venturi filtering system for BWR severe accident venting strategies [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2020 The aim of this project was to determine the capacity of a multi-venturi scrubber filtering system to cope with vented gas mass-flow rate coming from a BWR Mark II primary containment during a long-term station blackout.
Reyes-Garcia Alejandro Antonio +4 more
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Investigation gas behavior inside a gas centrifuge using dsmc code developed and dsmcFOAM solver [PDF]
مجله علوم و فنون هستهای, 2021 To model a gas behavior within a centrifuge machine, a powerful tool is required similarly. With high-speed cover, all the computational limitations for applying the influential derives such as feed, scoop, baffle effects, etc., formed flow regimes ...
S. Yousefi nasab +4 more
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An OpenFOAM solver for computing suspended particles in water currents
Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2023 A new OpenFOAM solver has been developed for computing the spatial variation of particle concentrations in flowing water. The new solver was programmed in C ++ using OpenFOAM libraries, and the source code has been made openly available.
N. Olsen +3 more
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On floating point precision in computational fluid dynamics using OpenFOAM [PDF]
Future generations computer systems, 2022 Thanks to the computational power of modern cluster machines, numerical simulations can provide, with an unprecedented level of details, new insights into fluid mechanics.
Federico Brogi +5 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Numerical investigation of the effect of nanoparticle sedimentation on the thermal behavior of cavities with different cross-sectional shapes [PDF]
Journal of Particle Science and Technology, 2023 In this paper, the thermal behavior of nanofluids was numerically simulated during nanoparticle sedimentation. A new solver was developed in the open-source framework, i.e. openFoam, using the finite volume method by combining appropriate solvers.
Miralam Mahdi, Amir Noori, Atie Farrokh
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Coupling of OpenFOAM with a Lagrangian vortex particle method for external aerodynamic simulations
The Physics of Fluids, 2023 In the field of computational aerodynamics, it is vital to develop tools that can accurately, but also efficiently, simulate the flow around bluff objects and calculate the aerodynamic forces acting on them.
R. Pasolari, C. Ferreira, A. van Zuijlen
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A Review on the Modelling of Wave-Structure Interactions Based on OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM® Journal, 2022 The modelling of wave-structure interaction (WSI) has significant applications in understanding natural processes as well as securing the safety and efficiency of marine engineering.
Luofeng Huang +13 more
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Influence of T shape baffles arrangement on flow hydraulic characteristics in fishways [PDF]
Journal of Hydraulic Structures, 2022 Hydraulic structures constructed along the rivers cause disturbances in the natural process of aquatic life and the ecosystem of the region. In order to solve this problem, fishway structure is widely used to facilitate the communication path between ...
Dana Ghaderi +2 more
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Cyclic Heat Transfer Solver for OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM® Journal, 2023 Channels with periodically repeating geometries are often simulated using periodic or cyclic boundary conditions. By calculating the temperature and flow field in one periodic module, the resulting distributions can be generalized to multiple modules ...
Michael Coe, Daniel Holland
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Eulerian-Lagrangian modelling of detonative combustion in two-phase gas-droplet mixtures with OpenFOAM: Validations and verifications [PDF]
, 2020 A hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian solver RYrhoCentralFoam is developed based on OpenFOAM to simulate detonative combustion in two-phase gas-liquid mixtures.
Zhiwei Huang +4 more
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