Facing an issue with the discrete population balance model in a multiphase flow simul
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I am working on a multiphase flow using population balance to track the development of a dispersed secondary phase, in a cylindrical pipe.
The geometry is 2D. It's a rectangle. The inlet is split into 2: a water inlet and an air inlet. The inlet velocities are such that the inlet volume fraction of air is 10%. I use the Eulerian multiphase model, and the Discrete population balance model. I set my minimum diameter as 8e-06 m, and my maximum diameter as 8e-03 m. I set the bin number to 30. I can then print the bin sizes, which I use in MATLAB to obtain the bin fractions as a normal distribution, as shown in Plot 1. I initialized the air inlet with these bin fractions. The pipe is 2-m long, and so I defined a line every 0.1 m starting at the inlet and ending at the outlet. At each line I defined a report file for the number densities of each bins. After running the simulation and processing the data, having the number densities of each bin at each line, I plot Number density vs Bin size, in Plot 2, at the whole inlet (the line at x=0). Plot 3 shows Number densities vs Bin sizes at the air inlet only. My issue is that the number densities, which are proportional to the bin fractions, should supposedly also show a normal distribution, since this is how I initialized them. Can anyone knowledgeable on the matter provide me with any insights please? |
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