Category Archives: Application Models

This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate sand and water flowing through a downhole sand screen.

This application model extends CPFD Software’s industrial-scale cement calciner model to simulate co-firing with municipal sludge.

This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate proppant transport and settling in a single hydraulic fracture, including the interaction of a realistic proppant size distribution with slickwater. The validated Barracuda results also provide training data for a Graph Neural Network reduced-order model (GNN-ROM), which closely reproduces the predicted bed profiles at a fraction of the computational cost.

This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate the evaporation of multi-component FCC feed across an industrial-scale riser.

This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate TRISO particle production within a 3D spouted bed reactor operating under acetylene pyrolysis conditions.

This application model uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to evaluate ammonia co-firing in an industrial-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) combustor, building on previously validated and scaled coal combustion models.

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.

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.

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.

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.