Resolved CFD-DEM (immersed boundary)

The second flavor of CFD-DEM is "resolved" CFD-DEM, which resolves the flow around each particle. It uses an immersed boundary/fictitious domain method to represent the solids within the CFD domain.

The examples below illustrate some of the capabilities and the applicability of CFDEM®coupling for unresolved CFD-DEM.
This feature is part of the public release.

Example: immersed boundary, 4-way coupled CFD-DEM
In the following "proof of concept" the CFD-DEM functionality is combined with an immersed boundary method.

Example: immersed boundary, 1-way coupled CFD-DEM
In the following "proof of concept" the CFD-DEM functionality is combined with an immersed boundary method.

Example: immersed boundary, 4-way coupled resolved CFD-DEM
Since version 2.0.4 of the CFDEM coupling we have a resolved CFD-DEM functionality using fictitious domain method.