Parcels minimum temperature in reactingParcelFoam
Hello everybody !
I am currently working on a simulation involving liquid nitrogen being sprayed around in a methane (gaseous) pipe for cooling purposes. reactingParcelFoam seems to be a good choice, and initial tests with modified tutorials work really well. But once I introduce liquid N2 and methane at low temperatures (around 90K), the solver can't run and tells me: Pressure below triple point pressure: p = 9912.195865 < Pt = 12517.39172 I also noticed that my nitrogen particles were stuck at 200K although they are supposed to be at 81K. So I suspect that OpenFoam won't work at temperatures lower than 200K for stability reasons? The solver runs ok when I disable the parcels injection. Here are some files : Cloud properties Code:
solution Code:
thermoType Thanks for any help you might provide :) |
Hey again,
I figured out my mistake. In the constantProperties of the reactingCloudProperties file, we can add the field TMin (I had tried several variants such as tMin, TLow, Tlow etc but with no avail :D). So the subdictionary looks like this: Code:
constantProperties Since I enabled the liquidEvaporation model, I think it has to do with the phase change, but it still seems suspicious to me that cold particles in a hotter gas get colder just due to the phase change. Maybe someone more qualified in thermodynamics can point me in the right direction? Thanks! |
I would like to bump this thread as I have not solved all my issues :)
To sum up, I am spraying liquid nitrogen droplets (at around 81 kelvins) in a pipe full of gaseous methane (at 95 kelvins). I would expect the droplets to heat up and evaporate while the methane cools down. But although the methane cools down, the droplets drop in temperature around 62-64K (remember, I override the TMin limit). My thermophysicalProperties look like this : Code:
thermoType What am I missing here? Thanks for any help you might provide :) |
Hi again! Last post since I think I figured out why my particles act this way, I will stop spamming :D
So I conducted more tests with different concentrations of gaseous methane + gaseous nitrogen at the inlet, in addition to the liquid nitrogen being sprayed inside the pipe.
Considering these two cases, I think I missed the fact that the droplets temperature change also depends on the relative concentration of the gaseous N2 already present. The two mechanisms involved in the heat transfer are evaporation and convection. When the "relative humidity" in N2 is low, the heat loss by evaporation overtakes the heat gain happening through convection and the droplet temperature falls. In my case, the droplet temperature falls to 63.15K which is the triple point for N2, so my droplets go through sublimation basically. But when there is already a significant concentration of N2 in the gaseous phase, the evaporation is less prevalent, and the heat balance becomes positive thanks to convection, thus the temperature rises. Anyways, it seems like basic thermodynamics but it got me really confused :D I am not certain about this, so if anyone can confirm or correct me, that would be great, cheers! |
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