Catalyst Heat-Up Simulation
chtMultiRegionFoam, heat-transfer coupling with inter-region source terms and porous media
In the automotive and power-plant construction sector, catalyst systems are used to clean the exhaust gas from the engine. Commonly, the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system is used to reduce the NOx emissions. For such purpose, the SCR catalyst substrate has to have a defined minimum temperature before the DeNOx reactant is injected (around 280 °C). The following tutorial gives details about the coupling of the fluid and solid region with an energy transfer between these regions.
Energy transfer can be modeled using three different models
The training case shows the coupling of the solid and fluid regions (regarding energy transfer) using the constant heat transfer model. However, OpenFOAM® also allows one to use two other models which might be more accurate. The constant heat transfer model still requires two input parameter such as the total heat-transfer area and the heat-transfer coefficient (HTC). Other models can calculate the HTC based on a Nusselt correlation, which is not investigated here but mentioned.
As the catalyst substrate allows the fluid to go only in one direction while forcing a pressure drop, the Darcy-Forchheimer equation is used to model the porous zone of the two catalysts. The model parameters used here are just arbitrary to demonstrate the usage and set-up of such a coupling problem.
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