Modelling and Simulation of Micro-channel Reactor Using FLUENT Software

Abstract

Presented here is an insight of the momentum and energy transport phenomena occurring in a micro-channel with non-continuum (slip flow) boundary conditions. The following context deals with, ‘FLUENT simulation of flow and energy based calculations using pressure correction-based iterative SIMPLE algorithm with 1st order upwind scheme in convective terms to simulate a steady incompressible two-dimensional flow through a micro-channel’. In the present work, the slip flow of liquid through a micro-channel has been modelled using a slip length assumption instead of using conventional Maxwell’s slip flow model, which essentially utilizes the molecular mean free path concept and is extended to determine the temperature variation in the channel. The models developed, following this approach, forms a basis to the physics of liquid flow and energy transport through micro-channels.