Model of Lehr et al. (2002). The coalescence rate is calculated by. More...

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Public Member Functions
	TypeName ("LehrMilliesMewes")
	Runtime type information. More...

	LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence (const populationBalanceModel &popBal, const dictionary &dict)

virtual	~LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence ()
	Destructor. More...

virtual void	addToCoalescenceRate (volScalarField &coalescenceRate, const label i, const label j)
	Add to coalescenceRate. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from coalescenceModel
	TypeName ("coalescenceModel")
	Runtime type information. More...

	declareRunTimeSelectionTable (autoPtr, coalescenceModel, dictionary,(const populationBalanceModel &popBal, const dictionary &dict),(popBal, dict))

	coalescenceModel (const populationBalanceModel &popBal, const dictionary &dict)

autoPtr< coalescenceModel >	clone () const

virtual	~coalescenceModel ()
	Destructor. More...

virtual void	correct ()
	Correct diameter independent expressions. More...

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from coalescenceModel
static autoPtr< coalescenceModel >	New (const word &type, const populationBalanceModel &popBal, const dictionary &dict)

Protected Attributes inherited from coalescenceModel
const populationBalanceModel &	popBal_
	Reference to the populationBalanceModel. More...

Detailed Description

Model of Lehr et al. (2002). The coalescence rate is calculated by.

$\frac{\pi}{4} (d_i + d_j)^2 \mathrm{min}(u^{\prime}, u_{\mathrm{crit}}) \mathrm{exp} \left[ - \left(\frac{\alpha_{\mathrm{max}}^{1/3}}{\alpha^{1/3}} - 1\right)^2 \right]\,,$

where

$u^{\prime} = \mathrm{max} \left( \sqrt{2} \epsilon_c^{1/3} \sqrt{d_i^{2/3} + d_j^{2/3}}, |\vec{u}_i - \vec{u}_j| \right)$

is the characteristic velocity for coalescence. Note that a velocity difference between bubble i and j is only present if the corresponding size groups are assigned to different velocity groups.

	=	Diameter of bubble i [m]
	=	Diameter of bubble j [m]
$\epsilon_c$	=	Turbulent dissipation rate of continuous phase [m^2/s^3]
$\alpha$	=	Total void fraction of the bubbles [-]
$\alpha_{max}$	=	Maximum packing density of the bubbles [-]
$u_{crit}$	=	Critical velocity for coalescence [m/s]
$\vec{u}_i$	=	Velocity vector of bubble i [m/s]
$\vec{u}_j$	=	Velocity vector of bubble j [m/s]

Reference:

        Lehr, F., Millies, M., & Mewes, D. (2002).
        Bubble‐size distributions and flow fields in bubble columns.
        AIChE Journal, 48(11), 2426-2443.

Usage

Property	Description	Required	Default value
`uCrit`	Crit. coalescence velocity	no	0.08
`alphaMax`	Maximum packing density	no	0.6

Source files

Definition at line 148 of file LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence.H.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence()

LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence	(	const populationBalanceModel &	popBal,
		const dictionary &	dict
	)

◆ ~LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence()

virtual ~LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence ( )

inlinevirtual

Destructor.

Definition at line 176 of file LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence.H.

References LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence::addToCoalescenceRate().

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Member Function Documentation

◆ TypeName()

TypeName ( "LehrMilliesMewes" )

Runtime type information.

◆ addToCoalescenceRate()

virtual void addToCoalescenceRate	(	volScalarField &	coalescenceRate,
		const label	i,
		const label	j
	)

virtual

Add to coalescenceRate.

Implements coalescenceModel.

Referenced by LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence::~LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

applications/solvers/multiphase/multiphaseEulerFoam/phaseSystems/populationBalanceModel/coalescenceModels/LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence/LehrMilliesMewesCoalescence.H

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