Analyzing data with Python and NumPy
Barracuda can export a large amount of data to text files that can be further analyzed to gain additional insight into the performance of a model. For example, particle snap…
Modeling and Process Features of Plug Flow Reactor with Internal Recirculation for Biomass Pyrolysis
Virtual Reactor simulation of a biomass pyrolysis reactor, by Kokourine and Adham at Hatch, verifies that plug-flow with internal-recirculation (PFIR) can be achieved under reasonable operating conditions.
Numerical Simulation of a Commercial FCC Regenerator Using Multiphase Particle-in-Cell Methodology (MP-PIC)
The simulation results in this paper show the numerous modeling capabilities of the MP-PIC approach to identify possible performance and reliability issues of an industrial Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) regenerator..
Increase Performance & Accelerate Barracuda Virtual Reactor Simulations in the Cloud
This presentation by Peter Blaser, Roque Lopez, and Sam Clark discusses enhancements that allow the Barracuda Virtual Reactor to be used on high performance computing systems.
How to use Interact features from a script or the command line
If you’re interested in automatically controlling BCs based on user-specified parameters, please see the newer post: Using a PID Controller Script to Control Boundary Conditions Example Scenario Your model has a thermal…
Influence of Drag Laws on Pressure and Bed Material Recirculation Rate in a Cold Flow Model of an 8 MW Dual Fluidized Bed System by Means of CPFD
A cold flow model of an 8 MW dual fluidized bed (DFB) system is simulated using Barracuda Virtual Reactor, and then the effect of the chosen drag law on the hydrodynamics is analyzed.
Intrusive Probes in Riser Applications
In this paper, Barracuda Virtua Reactor was used to help disprove the notion that probes do not affect the data collected in circulating fluidized bed risers and prove that intrusive probe measurements consistently mispredict the behavior of the system.
Using cutplanes in GMV
GMV cutplanes are a useful tool for visualizing 3-dimensional simulation results. They allow engineers to get a sense of the 3-dimensional behavior of a system by viewing several planes of…
CPFD Software Expands R&D Team
CPFD Software announces expansion of its team of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experts by adding Pramod Bangalore as a Senior CFD Engineer.
Computational Particle-Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Gas-Solid Flow in a Circulating Fluidized Bed with Air or O2/CO2 as Fluidizing Gas
Computational particle-fluid dynamics (CPFD) simulation was carried out to examine the influence of air versus O2/CO2 as the fluidizing gas on the hydrodynamics of gas-solid flow in a cold-mode circulating fluidized bed.