A CFD ANALYSIS OF AIR FLOW IN A STATIONARY DRUM PARTIALLY FILLED WITH SOLID MATERIAL

This project deals with the computational fluid dynamics analysis of air flow in stationary drum partially filled with solid material. This involves with the three dimensional analysis of air flow through a drum having tangential inlet and axial outlet. The software and analysis are to be carried out by ANSYSFLUENT. ANSYS FLUENT is Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software in which flow fields and other physics are calculated in detail for various engineering applications. The analysis was done to analyze velocity and temperature distribution, pressure, air flow and turbulence. The models are first generated and then are meshed and then various velocity and pressure contours are to be drawn and graphed in this paper to analyze the air flow through drum. Standard k - ε turbulence model is allowed to predict the three-dimensional flow and the conjugate various profiles.