Energies, Volume 15, Issue 20
2022 October-2 - 369 articles
Cover Story: The design and optimization of photobioreactors (PBR) benefit from the development of robust and quantitatively accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models, which incorporate the complex interplay of fundamental phenomena. We propose a comprehensive computational model for tubular PBR equipped with glass sponges. The simulation model offers three submodels for hydrodynamics, light supply, and biomass kinetics based on lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM). The novel mesoscopic model is applied to simulate a tubular PBR with transparent walls and an internal sponge structure. We showcase the coupled simulation results and validate specific submodel outcomes by comparison to experiments. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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