Higher particle velocity than fluid velocty

Submitted by Detian Liu on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 03:39

Dear all,
I am a new comer in CFDEM, recently I just used CFDEM to simulate the suspended sediment transport, but I always get some particles' velocity larger than the fluid velocity, it that because the time step of DEM side, or I use a wrong model? And in most of time, how can we decide the time step of the DEM side?
Thank you for your help!
Best Wishes!

my couplingProperties is:

ModelType B; // A or B

couplingInterval 10;//CFD timestep 0.0001, DEM timestep 0.00001

voidFractionModel divided;//centre;//bigParticle;//

locateModel engine;//standard;

meshMotionModel noMeshMotion;

regionModel allRegion;

IOModel basicIO; //trackIO; //

probeModel off;

dataExchangeModel twoWayMPI;//twoWayFiles;//oneWayVTK;//

averagingModel dense;//dilute;//

clockModel off; //standardClock;//

smoothingModel constDiffSmoothing; //off;//

//useDDTvoidfraction;

forceModels
(
//DiFeliceDrag
SchillerNaumannDrag
//KochHillDrag
//MeiLift
//virtualMassForce
//gradPForce
//viscForce
Archimedes
);

momCoupleModels
(
implicitCouple
);

turbulenceModelType LESProperties;//RASProperties;//