CFD Simulation of Gas Distributor with Two Chambers

Abstract:

This paper investigated a new type of gas distributor with two chambers by CFD software. The distributor has a natural gas inlet and nine nozzle outlets. For the investigation of this project, the mass flow rate of the distributor was analyzed in this paper to provide a way to optimize the structure of distributor. The N-S equations approached with the RNG k-ε turbulence model and the discretization were employed second order upwind. The simulation results will provide a number of useful suggestions and references for the further design.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 989-994)
• Pages: 2264-2267
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.989-994.2264
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Dong Fang Zhao*, Feng Guo Liu
• Keywords: CFD, Gas Distributor, RNG K-ε Turbulence Model, Uniformity

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