Modeling of a cryogenic liquid pool boiling by CFD simulation Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 Elsevier Ltd. A boiling model is developed by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code to calculate the source term of a cryogenic liquid spill. The model includes the effect of the changing ground temperature on the vaporization rate of the cryogenic liquid. Simulations are performed for liquid nitrogen. The model can describe different boiling regimes (film, transition and nucleate). The heat flux calculated for each boiling regimes are compared to the experimental data from literature. The developed numerical model seems to have a good ability to predict the heat flux for the film boiling stage. Model development is still necessary to improve the prediction of the nucleate boiling regime. Overall, the approach shows very promising results to model the complex physical phenomena involved in in the vaporization of cryogenic liquid pool spilled on ground.

authors

• Vechot, Luc

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES

author list (cited authors)

• Liu, Y. i., Olewski, T., & Vechot, L. N.

citation count

• 30

complete list of authors

• Liu, Yi||Olewski, Tomasz||Vechot, Luc N

publication date

• January 2015

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES  Journal

keywords

• Boiling
• Cfd Modeling
• Cryogenic Liquid
• Lng
• Source Term
• Spill

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jlp.2015.04.006

start page

• 125

end page

• 134

volume

• 35

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.jlp.2015.04.006