Zhengquan Li1,*, Pei Zhang1, Yongchang Sun1, Chenglin Zheng1, Liang Xu2, Dianyu E1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.3, pp. 1119-1132, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.016019
- 24 May 2021
Abstract In this paper, the gas and seed flow characters in the air-blowing seed metering device are investigated by using the coupled computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD-DEM) in three dimensions (3D). The method of establishing boundary model based on the computer-aided design (CAD) drawing, has been used to build the boundary model of seed metering device. The 3D laser scanning technique and multi-element method are adopted to establish the particle model. Through a combined numerical and experimental effort, using 3D CFD-DEM software, which is based on the in-house codes, the mechanisms governing the More >