Dear scientific community,
I am intending to create digital furnace whose components should have some type of own intelligence described by their own physical, chemical properties and be able to modulate the properties due to occurred situations. The "intelligent" components should be autonomous but also able to be connected and therefore represent uniform device (such as Lego).
Consider shaft furnace for magnesia sintering.
The shaft furnace is a vertical thermal apparatus for raw granular material thermal treatment. The material is charged from the top and proceeds through the furnace only by gravity force. In the bottom part of the furnace are placed burners. In the furnace occur several chemical reactions and physical processes which the mathematical model must be able to capture (dust creation, caustification, sintering, etc., stress). (Here is taking place a question about use of chemical and physical library for such purposes).
Simulations has to provide "Digital Furnace" on data level.
The process lasts approximately 8h.
I have 2 questions:
1.) It Is possible to model such equipment using CFD-DEM principles, codes ?
2.) It Is effective to model such equipment using CFD-DEM principles, codes ?
I am confident that such complex problem needs to be modeled on (at least) macroscopic level (for charge - independent grains) for achieving required informations.
I'll be thankful for your response. Have a nice day.
Sincerely
Paul