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Water spray evaporation in a hot air flow is a common process for many industrial applications. Spray nozzles should be well adjusted and distributed specifically to achieve efficient evaporation. The present study addressed simulation of the process within the Eulerian-Lagrangian workframe with k-∈ turbulence model. Simulation was carried out via OpenFOAM and postprocessed with ParaView. SprayFOAM solver was used to obtain a solution for 2D and 3D representations of the wind tunnel. Custom JANAF-based approximations were introduced for thermophysical properties of working mediums (air and water vapor). Obtained results were accurate enough to validate the presented model against adopted experimental data. Drift eliminator was modelled with virtual interfaces (baffles), which were tested in two scenarios: accumulating and removing droplets from the computational domain.

Numerical simulation of unsteady flow of a compressible fluid in a fixed bed filled with porous elements has been performed. The research was carried out via ANSYS Fluent software. The scientific substantiation and verification of the physical and mathematical approaches incorporated in ANSYS Fluent for the problem of unsteady flow in a fixed bed has been carried out. For the computational domain, the interfaces of the flow area and the surface of porous particles are coupled by combining the contacts into a component part. The numerical results were verified using experimental data. The study was carried out in the range of velocity from 0.25 to 3.25 m/s. An expression is proposed for determining the pressure drop in a fixed bed, in which the pressure drop depends on the velocity, flow properties and the linear coefficient of local resistance. The values of the linear coefficient of local resistance are determined for the most common nozzle shapes in the industry: cylinder, Raschig ring, convex cylinder with 7 holes, sphere with 7 holes. It was found that with an increase in velocity, the value of the linear coefficient of local resistance decreases.