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Default Reaction in porous media - very slow convergence
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Hi there!

I am trying to simulate a honeycomb catalytic reactor by using the porous media model in Fluent. For the moment, I am using a small axisymmetric 2D grid and my reaction network only consists of 6 reactions (adsorption/desorption of O2 and CO, surface reaction to CO2, desorption of CO2). I use the steady-state pressure-based solver.

First, I run the case without reactions. It converges almost immediately.
Then I set the surface-to-volume ratio to 91000 for the porous zone and I run it again. However, it looks like the reaction does only proceed at the inlet of the porous zone, and the reaction front moves VERY SLOWLY through the reactor. I monitor the mole fraction of CO2 at the outlet and this increases slowly during the entire simulation.
The case reaches convergence after almost half a million iterations, which is way too much since my grid is only 45x30 cells. All underrelaxation factors are set to 1 so that is not the problem. There are no instabilities in the residuals.

Does anyone know this problem or has an idea how to solve it? Thanks in advance!

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Laurien
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