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Numerical simulations of flow over a stationary particle in a dense gas-particle two-phase flow have been carried out for small Reynolds numbers (less than 100). In order to study the influence of the particles interaction on the drag force, three particle arrangements have been tested: a single particle, two particles placed in the flow direction and many particles located regularly in the flow field. The Navier-Stokes equations are discretized in the three-dimensional space using finite volume method. For the first and second cases, the numerical results agree reasonably well with the data in literature. For the third case, i.e., the multiparticle case, the influence of the particle volume fraction and Reynolds numbers on the drag force has been investigated. The results show that the computational values of the drag ratio agree approximately with the published results at higher Reynolds numbers (from 34.2 to 68.4), but there is a large difference between them at small Reynolds numbers.
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The project supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basis Research Projects in China (G19990222).
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Changfu, Y., Haiying, Q. & Xuchang, X. Drag force in dense gas-particle two-phase flow. Acta Mech Sinica 19, 228–234 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02484484
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