General Circulation Experiments with the Primitive Equations
This paper by Smagorinsky establishes some of the foundational equations for understanding particle-fluid physics.
Entrainment Reduction: Modeling and Plant Results
Also available on Youtube. About This Presentation Presented by Sibashis Banerjee of Tronox at the 2022 Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference. Summary This talk will cover the use of modeling…
Fluidized Bed Reactor Application for Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Plastic
This presentation by Song Wang at the 2022 Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ conference discusses Encina’s fluidized bed catalytic pyrolysis reaction system which converts post-consumer plastics to valuable products.
A First-Ever Innovative Brown-Field Modification in Conservative Cement Industry – De-Risked by Smart Simulation
This presentation by Martin Weng discusses how the Barracuda Virtual Reactor was used to de-risk the modification of a German cement plant.
Industrial Scale Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor
This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate solid particle erosion in a 90-degree elbow, capturing particle-wall impacts and wear patterns under varying mass loadings. The simulation demonstrates how particle collisions influence erosion severity and distribution, enabling evaluation of component durability in particulate-laden flows.
Erosion in a 90-Degree Elbow
This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate solid particle erosion in a 90-degree elbow, capturing particle-wall impacts and wear patterns under varying mass loadings. The simulation demonstrates how particle collisions influence erosion severity and distribution, enabling evaluation of component durability in particulate-laden flows.
Cement Calciner Decomposition Furnace
This application model provides a ready-to-use, literature-based reference for engineers studying calciner heat transfer, reaction kinetics, alternative-fuel co-processing, and carbon-capture-ready calciner designs using Barracuda Virtual Reactor.
Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) Shaft Furnace for Steel Production
This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate the direct reduction of iron ore in a MIDREX-style shaft furnace. The simulation tracks moving bed hydrodynamics and reduction reactions between iron oxide particles and a hydrogen–carbon monoxide gas mixture, enabling evaluation of solids conversion, gas species evolution, and furnace temperature profiles.
Proppant Transport in Hydraulic Fractures
This application model simulates proppant transport in hydraulic fractures, capturing fluidization, sedimentation, and particle size effects to help optimize fracture coverage and well productivity.
Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor
This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate combustion inside the riser of a lab-scale CFB combustor. The simulation tracks fluid-particle interactions and chemical reactions between air and volatile species released from coal particles. This enables users to evaluate combustion performance, temperature profiles, and gas species distributions such as O₂, CO₂, NO, and SO₂ across the riser.