CFDEM and turbulence

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Submitted by Riccardo Maione on Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:28

Hello All,

I have now managed to write a compressible solver and, now, what I would like to do is some low-reynolds modeling.
What I saw in the code however is that turbulence models are the same as in the case of no-particle, so in order to do some turbulence modeling, it is necessary to write a turbulence model that takes into account the voidfraction. However I saw that there is also an example of "cfdemSolverPiso" in a turbulent case, even if OpenFoam's model do not take into account voidfraction. So my question is, in order to use CFDEM in a turbulent case (and in my case with a compressible solver), a new turbulence model is necessary to account for voidfraction?

Thanks All for your attention