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ANSYS BLOG
February 10, 2017
Ansys Fluent has advanced erosion fluid dynamics modeling by adding three industry-standard models to the previous default model.
Erosion wear is the loss of material due to repeated impact of solid particles on a surface and causes major economic losses across diverse industries such as oil and gas, hydraulic transportation, and chemical processes.
Erosion severely damages flow passages, valves and pipe fittings, leading to higher replacement costs as well as the loss of valuable production time. For example, some oil and gas fittings can fail after just 30 minutes of operation due to high erosion rates! Engineers need to quickly evaluate the erosion on dozens of design variations to find ways of stretching the part’s lifespan in order to reduce costs and maximize process up-time.
Erosion is a mechanical process that happens due to the repeated impact of solid particles on pipe surface. If the surface material is ductile, repeated particle impacts will result in the formation of craters and platelets; craters will grow with subsequent particle impact and eventually platelets are easily removed into the flow, Figure 1-a. Brittle material on the other hand, will grow lateral and radial cracks under sand particle impact, which will grow and eventually form small pieces that are removed by continuous solid particle impingement, Figure 1-b.
Erosion is a complex phenomenon that depends on many parameters. Particle parameters can include the following:
Flow parameters, on the other hand, have a stronger effect on erosion as it determines particle concentration, particle impact angle, and impact velocity. Other parameters affecting erosion are properties of target surface, i.e. surface hardness and multiphase effects[1].
Progress in understanding the erosion due to solid particles has been achieved by the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). CFD allows the accurate modeling of fluid flow and particle trajectory through pipelines and bends. Once the impact velocity and angle of the particles colliding against the surface are calculated, empirical correlations to quantify the erosion rate can be implemented.
Many empirical erosion correlations have been published in the literature. All include the impingement angle, impact velocity, particle diameter, particle mass, and collision frequency plugged into it. A typical erosion model has the following general form (default erosion fluid dynamics model in Ansys Fluent)
The particle impact angle, impact velocity and mass flow rate are calculated directly using CFD. Nevertheless, the impact angle function, particle diameter function, and velocity exponent have to be supplemented as input to the solver.
In addition to the default, three industry accepted erosion correlations have been added to Ansys Fluent in Ansys 18 to give you more flexibility: Finnie [2], Oka [3], and McLaury[4] Figure 2.
Erosion Models Available in Ansys Fluent
Just like turbulence modeling, there is no one size fits all erosion model. Each erosion model has been empirically calibrated for a certain flow scenario, so one should consider the relevant flow conditions for each model before using any erosion model.
Erosion rate is usually calculated after the flow field has been established in the domain. Actually, you can think of it as a post-processing step for CFD analysis. So, erosion can be predicted in low particle loading scenarios, particle volume loading <10%, using the following steps:
Discrete Particulate Model (DPM) Panel in Ansys Fluent
Particle Reflection Coefficients: a) Normal
Particle Reflection Coefficients: b) Tangential
(a) Contour Panel
(b) Erosion Rate Contour—Oka Erosion Model
(c ) Erosion Rate Surface Contours—McLaury Erosion Model
Contour Plot of DPM Erosion Rate in Ansys Fluent
Learn more about what Ansys 18 is delivering for fluids including the accuracy and advanced modeling in our release highlights page.
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