Introduction

This tutorial examines the flow of air and a granular solid phase consisting of glass beads in a hot gas fluidized bed, under uniform minimum fluidization conditions. The results obtained for the local wall-to-bed heat transfer coefficient in ANSYS FLUENT can be compared with analytical results [ 1].

This tutorial demonstrates how to do the following:

• Use the Eulerian granular model.

• Set boundary conditions for internal flow.

• Calculate a solution using the pressure-based solver.