Features question

spridal5 · May 30, 2007, 14:07

I was jsut wondering if OpenFOAM was easy enough to use to help model the following situations:

Wastewater Primary and secondary settling tanks
Wastewater grit removal
Various Stormwater treatment devices

Any help at all would be great. Thanks

liu · May 30, 2007, 15:07

Yes. I am doing some simulations for waste water treatment plant. For secondary settling tanks, it's ok and there is a solver shipping with OpenFOAM. But for primary tanks, it's not so easy to model simply because not to many experiments and no good model for it. For now, I am just using the "partially-mixed" approach as for the secondary tanks.

For grit removal, I have no idea. Someone must come up with some model.

May 30, 2007, 14:07	I was jsut wondering if OpenFO	#1
spridal5 New Member Bob Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I was jsut wondering if OpenFOAM was easy enough to use to help model the following situations: Wastewater Primary and secondary settling tanks Wastewater grit removal Various Stormwater treatment devices Any help at all would be great. Thanks

May 30, 2007, 15:07	Yes. I am doing some simulatio	#2
liu Senior Member Xiaofeng Liu Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: State College, PA, USA Posts: 118 Rep Power: 17	Yes. I am doing some simulations for waste water treatment plant. For secondary settling tanks, it's ok and there is a solver shipping with OpenFOAM. But for primary tanks, it's not so easy to model simply because not to many experiments and no good model for it. For now, I am just using the "partially-mixed" approach as for the secondary tanks. For grit removal, I have no idea. Someone must come up with some model. __________________ Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Penn State University 223B Sackett Building University Park, PA 16802 Web: http://water.engr.psu.edu/liu/

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