... transfer process over isothermal plates. Design/methodology/approach This work is an extension and finalization of previous studies of the leading author. The numerical methodology was proposed and experimentally validated in previous studies. Using OpenFOAM® and other free and open-source numerical...

... physical assembly of (a) experimental apparatus for measuring temperatures, (b) data acquisition system and (c) positioning of the experimental apparatus for measuring temperatures inside the isolation chamber Natural convection Validation Empirical correlations OpenFOAM® Corrugated plates...

... and κ – ε turbulence models, occurred from the results from 48 numerical models, which were simulated using the OpenFOAM® software. Comparing the experimental mean Nusselt number with the numerical values obtained in the simulations and the analysis of the relative errors were used...

... conditions, turbulent regime and using the free and open-source software OpenFOAM®. The studied parameters were: boundary conditions (using or not using wall functions in properties ε, κ, ν_t and ω), degree of mesh refinement, refinement layers and turbulence...

...Cesar Martin Venier; Andrés Reyes Urrutia; Juan Pablo Capossio; Jan Baeyens; Germán Mazza Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of ANSYS Fluent^® and OpenFOAM®, at their current state of development, to study the relevant bubbling fluidized bed (BFB...