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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation of a high-pressure homogenization process

Wieth, Lars 1; Kelemen, Katharina 2; Braun, Samuel 1; Koch, Rainer 1; Bauer, Hans Jörg 2; Schuchmann, Heike Petra 2
1 Institut für Thermische Strömungsmaschinen (ITS), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

High-pressure homogenization is a widely used process in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industry for producing emulsions. Because of small dimensions and high velocities, the experimental and numerical investigation of such a process is challenging. Hence, the development of products is mostly based on trial and error. In this paper, simulations of a generic high-pressure homogenization process using the Lagrangian, mesh-free smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method are presented and compared to experimental findings using Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry (μ-PIV). The SPH code has been developed and validated with the scope of simulating technical relevant multi-phase problems (Höfler et al. 2012). The present simulations cover the investigation of two different dynamic viscosities of the dispersed phase as well as different droplet trajectories. The comparison between the simulations and the experiments focusses on the velocity distribution of the continuous phase and the droplet deformation and breakup. In both cases a qualitatively good agreement is observed, demonstrating the ability of our SPH implementation for simulating technical relevant two-phase flows.


Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-016-1705-6
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Bio- und Lebensmitteltechnik (BLT)
Institut für Thermische Strömungsmaschinen (ITS)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2016
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1613-4982, 1613-4990
KITopen-ID: 1000063516
HGF-Programm 34.14.02 (POF III, LK 01) Vergasung
Erschienen in Microfluidics and nanofluidics
Verlag Springer
Band 20
Heft 2
Seiten 42
Schlagwörter High-pressure homogenization Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics μ-PIV Multi-phase flows Emulsion
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