Non-Linear Gridding Demo
This video shows how to use the non-linear gridding in Barracuda Virtual Reactor. Concepts covered in this video: Using growth factor to create regions of smoothly growing or shrinking cell…
100 years of scaling up fluidized bed and circulating fluidized bed reactors
This paper discusses how the landscape of fluidization technology has evolved over the last century.
Experimental and Numerical Research on Chemical Looping Gasification of Coal Char in a Pressured Fluidized Bed Reactor
Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulations and experiments were used to study the gasification of Erdos bituminous coal char with Fe2O3/Al2O3 under the pressure of 0.1-0.5 MPa
Tecplot for Barracuda – Using batch_movie
This video is part of the Tecplot for Barracuda Training Videos collection. This video shows how to use the batch_movie utility script to make videos of your simulation results. Concepts covered in…
MP-PIC Simulation of Biomass Steam Gasification Using Ilmenite as an Oxygen Carrier
For a better understanding of this process, biomass steam gasification using ilmenite as an oxygen carrier is numerically investigated in this work using Barracuda Virtual Reactor, which is a modified Euler–Lagrange approach.
Understanding Variation in Barracuda Simulation Results
Randomness in Barracuda Simulations in Barracuda Virtual Reactor often necessitate modelling the interactions of millions, if not billions, of particles while simultaneously accounting for fluid dynamics, chemistry, and thermal calculations.…
CPFD Software to give Guest Lecture at PSRI’s Fluidization Seminar in Chicago, February 6-9
CPFD Software’s Peter Blaser would gave a lecture about “Simulation of Industrial-Scale Fluidized Beds and Fluid-Particle Systems” on February 8th, 2024 at PSRI’s Fluidization Seminar in Chicago
System Configuration and Testing for Running Barracuda in Multi-GPU Mode
The addition of multi-GPU capabilities to Barracuda Virtual Reactor opens up a range of new possibilities for simulations by enabling far larger systems to run within a reasonable timeframe. However,…
Tecplot for Barracuda – Extracting and Analyzing Bubble Properties
This video is part of the Tecplot for Barracuda Training Videos collection. This video shows how to extract and analyze bubble properties using PyTecplot in Tecplot for Barracuda. Related webinars…
Artificial Intelligence for Hybrid Modeling in Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
This study reports a novel hybrid model using Barracuda Virtual Reactor and AI for the prediction of six critical process variables of importance in an industrial-scale FCC