
Juan Ali Medina MendezBrandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg | BTU · Chair of Numerical Fluid and Gas Dynamics
Juan Ali Medina Mendez
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Introduction
I focus on the modelling and simulation of technically relevant process engineering flows. The flows are simplified on a geometric level, and reduced order models such as the One Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) are applied to study interactions between turbulence, molecular transport, and body forces. Investigations have addressed turbulent combustion with detailed or reduced chemical kinetics, turbulent wall-bounded flows with and without heat transfer, electrohydrodynamic flows, among others.
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Progress in the modeling of structured catalysts is crucial for enhancing efficiency and scalability in industrial applications. Extensive research has investigated reactive flows over catalyst surfaces, covering chemical kinetics analysis and (direct) numerical simulations of the complete fluid flow in fixed-bed or structured catalysts. Nonetheles...
The goal of this work is the formulation of a model for the parameterization of homogeneous roughness‐induced drag in turbulent flow simulations. We characterize rough surfaces using their surface‐area moments of roughness‐peaks. Additionally, we consider a probabilistic self‐similar power law distribution for the roughness heights, in such a way t...
We discuss the fluid mechanics modeling of structured catalysts for use on carbon dioxide (CO2) methanation. Various zero-dimensional (0-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) homogeneous models are evaluated in order to allow better informed modeling decisions.
Modeling and simulation of turbulent jet noise is an ongoing numerical challenge relevant to noise pollution control. In the present study, the concept of a novel dimensionally reduced modeling approach based on the so-called one-dimensional turbulence model (ODT) is discussed. ODT aims to resolve source terms due to velocity and kinematic pressure...
This work presents a novel framework for the evaluation of far‐field sound radiation, specializing to a low Mach number jet flow. The framework comprises an analytical and a numerical part. In the analytical part, a low Mach number asymptotic analysis is presented to obtain the spectral sources of sound radiation starting from a pressure wave equat...
Turbulent mixed convection in an air‐water system is evaluated with a novel numerical solver implementing the stochastic One‐Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model in a turbulent air flow surrounded by a laminar cocurrent water falling film in a cylindrical geometry. The ODT model is used as a reduced order surrogate model for the effects of turbulent...
Joint predictive modeling of hydrodynamics and electrokinetics is a standing numerical challenge but crucial for various applications in electrochemistry and power engineering. The present lack in modeling of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) turbulent flows lies in the treatment of small-scale processes and scale interactions. To overcome these limitation...
This work presents an overview of issues for the modeling of laminar flows in monolith catalysts. Both 0-D and 3-D models are evaluated for a parallel channel structured honeycomb catalyst (PC-HC), and a gyroid 3-D printed structured catalyst (G-3D). At the 0-D homogeneous reactor modeling level, the analysis is focused on the effect of the bulk po...
This work presents an economical alternative for the numerical simulation of turbulent flows in Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs). Simulations are carried out using a stochastic reduced order model. Results for the mass-related penetration in an industrial-like ESP (Re ≈ 21600) signalize the importance of the charging state of the particle field w...
This work presents an overview of issues for the modeling of laminar flows in monolith catalysts. Both 0-D and 3-D models are evaluated for a parallel channel structured honeycomb catalyst (PC-HC), and a gyroid 3-D printed structured catalyst (G-3D). At the 0-D homogeneous reactor modeling level, the analysis is focused on the effect of the bulk po...
Friction factor enhancements in pipe-flows subject to fixed electric fields are evaluated using the stochastic One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model. To that extent, low Mach asymptotics are used to derive the leading order effects of the governing equations in electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flows considering low mobility ratios. Temporal and spatial O...
The One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model framework for the simulation of particle-laden wire-tube electrostatic precipitators is detailed in this work by specifying initial conditions, governing equations, and the mechanism for two-way coupling between the electrostatic fields and the hydrodynamic flow. Unlike in a previous investigation [1], a t...
The One‐Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is applied for the evaluation of internal pipe flows subject to electrohydrodynamic (EHD) forces. The ODT formulation presented here incorporates the effects of the electrostatic potential energy transfer to the kinetic energy of the flow due to EHD instabilities in the presence of a corona discharge. Resu...
This thesis is an attempt to assess some of the effects that electroquasistatic body forces exert on turbulent internally forced convective flows. In order to do that, a stochastic turbulence model is employed, namely, the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model. The reduced dimensionality of ODT demands a reduction of the Navier-Stokes equations (a...
This is the abstract of a conference presentation on enhanced heat and mass transfer with electrostatic precipitators. (german)
The stochastic One‐Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is used in combination with a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach in order to illustrate the potential of the fully coupled model (ODTLES) for highly turbulent flows. In this work, we use a new C++ implementation of the ODTLES code in order to analyze the computational performance in a classica...
The incompressible temporally developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) is analysed using the map-based stochastic one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model. The TBL is a canonical flow problem, which is, in the present study, formed by a planar moving wall and a free stream at rest. An understanding of this idealised flow is of fundamental relevance...
A novel spatial formulation of the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is applied to a vertical pipe-flow with heat transfer, analogous to the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) performed by Bae et al. [Phys. Fluids 18, (075102) (2006)]. The framework presented here is an extension for radially confined domains of the cylindrical ODT spatial form...
The One-Dimensional Turbulence model is modified in this work for its application to a classical electrohydrodynamic (EHD) problem. Being the first study case, this work is focused on the influence of electrostatic fields and space charge on the velocity field inside a wire-plate Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) with one-way-coupling dynamics. The...
Electrostatic precipitation is highly appealing in the industry due to its uses in flue gas purification or chemical manufacture. This work is an attempt to model EHD flows using the stochastic One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model.
The One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is applied to reactive ows in open and closed systems represented by a lifted jet ame in a vitiated co ow, and a constant volume autoignition con guration, respectively. ODT is a one-dimensional model for turbulent ow simulations, which uses a stochastic formulation to represent the effects of turbulent ad...
A novel spatial formulation of the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is applied to a vertical pipe-flow with heat transfer, analogous to the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) performed by Bae et al. [Phys. Fluids 18, 075102 (2006)]. The framework presented here is an extension for closed domains of the cylindrical ODT spatial formulation for l...
Cylindrical pipe‐flow is evaluated by means of the One‐Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model applying both an incompressible and a low Mach number variable density framework. In the variable density formulation, the velocity field is decomposed into density‐related (non‐divergence‐free) and density‐unrelated (divergence‐free) contributions, as detaile...
The one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model resolves a full range of time and length scales and is computationally efficient. ODT has been applied to a wide range of complex multi-scale flows, such as turbulent combustion. Previous ODT comparisons to experimental data have focused mainly on planar flows. Applications to cylindrical flows, such as ro...
In this paper we overcome a key problem in an otherwise highly potential approach to study turbulent flows, ODTLES (One‐Dimensional Turbulence Large Eddy Simulation). From a methodological point of view, ODTLES is an approach in between Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and averaged/filtered approaches like RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier‐Stokes) o...
In this paper we overcome a key problem in an otherwise highly potential approach to study turbulent flows, ODTLES (One-Dimensional Turbulence Large Eddy Simulation). From a methodological point of view, ODTLES is an approach in between Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and averaged/filtered approaches like RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes) o...
In this paper we overcome a key problem in an otherwise highly potential approach to study turbulent flows, ODTLES (One-Dimensional Turbulence Large Eddy Simulation). From a methodological point of view, ODTLES is an approach in between Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and averaged/filtered approaches like RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes) o...
Constant volume premixed lean n-Heptane/air autoignition at high pressure is investigated using the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model. The configuration consists of a 1D fixed volume domain with a prescribed velocity spectrum and temperature fluctuations superimposed on an initial uniformly elevated scalar field. The sensitivity of the heat re...
The One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is applied to a constant volume configuration by means of a periodic, one-dimensional domain subject to randomized ensemble members with initial inhomogeneous temperature fields and homogeneous mass fraction profiles. The multidimensional turbulent interactions in the flow are modeled by the separate imple...
Constant volume n-Heptane autoignition flows are investigated using the model of One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT). The core of the study focuses on the comparison from ODT results (individual samples and mean) to the ones obtained by the Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) from Yoo et al. [Combust. Flame 158 (2011) 1727-1741]. The perfectly premixed...