On 5th December 2018, Yuki Mori (M2), Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, won “Outstanding poster award” at The 24th SCEJ Symposium on Fluidization & Particle Processing.It was given for the superior presentation by the student in a poster session.
<About awarded research>
Circulating fluidized bed is an important machine in the field of chemical engineering. Because it shows complex phenomena, numerical simulations are often performed. DEM-CFD method, one of the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach, is often used. Although this method is widely used, it has a problem of calculational difficulty when we apply this method to industrial-scale gas-solid systems because these systems have an enormous number of particles. To overcome this difficulty, we developed an integrated-DEM-CFD method, which combines coarse graining model and advanced DEM-CFD method. The coarse graining model is enabled us to calculate large-scale systems by using coarse grain particles which represent a crowd of particles, and the advanced DEM-CFD method can calculate the effect of arbitrarily shaped wall by using the structured grid. In this study, to validate integrated-DEM-CFD method, we performed numerical simulation and experiment of circulating fluidized bed under comparable conditions.
<Comments>
It is my great honor to win this award. I really thank Prof. Mikio Sakai for his excellent supervision, and I also thank all members of my laboratory. I will keep researching hard and try to improve our researches.
Hitomi Yanaka (D3), Department of Systems Innovation, received Young Researcher Awards in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing
