Abstract

The widespread industrial application of fluid/particle flow systems demands an increase in the overall development and enhancement of such systems. In spite of recent advances in computational capability, development of more general simulations, and design and scale-up tools for particle flow systems continues to pose a considerable challenge due to the complexity of flow pattern. Prior to the 1980s, research in fluid/ particle systems was mainly focused on the development of both overall flow measurements and the correlation and equations for the main flow parameter. During the last three decades, significant advances have been made in the development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach to fluid/particle flow systems. CFD approach is considered to be one of the major contributors to the Design and Scale-up and in turn economical feasibility of the processes deal with fluid/ particle flows. In addition, CFD has played a significant role in shortening the gap between fluid/ particle processes laboratory-scale and commercialscale. However, further research in the areas of reducing computational time and performing additional model verification through simulation of commercial-scale processes will be necessary to obtain successful widespread industrial application of a computational fluid dynamics approach to fluid/particle flow systems.