TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Ali A1 - González-Castaño, Miriam A1 - Baena-Moreno, Francisco Manuel A1 - Arellano-García, Harvey T1 - CO2 methanation: on the modeling of reacting laminar flows in structured Ni/MgAl2O4 catalysts T2 - Journal of Physics: Conference Series Y1 - 2022 UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2367/1/012015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2367/1/012015 IS - 2367 PB - IOP Publishing ER - TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Ali A1 - Dorneanu, Bogdan A1 - Arellano-García, Harvey T1 - Homogeneous modeling for laminar flows in structured catalysts: CO2 methanation T2 - Book of Abstracts zur Jahrestagung der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppe Fluidverfahrenstechnik, 04. – 06. März 2024 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www-docs.b-tu.de/fg-stroemungsmodellierung/public/Medina_2024_AbstractDechemaFluidverfahrenstechnik_Catalysts.pdf PB - Ruhr Universität CY - Bochum ER - TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Ali A1 - Dorneanu, Bogdan A1 - Arellano-García, Harvey T1 - Homogeneous modeling for laminar flows in structured catalysts: CO2 methanation Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www-docs.b-tu.de/fg-stroemungsmodellierung/public/Medina_2024_Poster_DECHEMA2024_Fluidverfahrenstechnik.pdf CY - Bochum ER - TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Ali A1 - Dorneanu, Bogdan A1 - Schmidt, Heiko A1 - Arellano-García, Harvey T1 - Revisiting homogeneous modeling with volume averaging theory: structured catalysts for steam reforming and CO2 methanation T2 - Journal of Physics: Conference Series N2 - 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. Nonetheless, this comes at a high computational cost. This study focuses on the homogeneous modeling of structured catalysts utilizing volume-averaging theory (VAT) as a more efficient method for representing the behaviour of such systems. We discuss modeling strategies for both 1-D and 3-D simulations. For steady 1-D flow simulations, we assess the influence of simplified gas chemical kinetics versus detailed surface chemistry, comparing with experimental data from the literature for a CO2 methanation processes. We also simulate 3-D flows of a steam reforming process, previously studied in the literature, using models which rely on different assumptions regarding the nature of the porous catalyst. Our findings reveal significant discrepancies based on different modeling assumptions, underscoring the necessity for accurate modeling of permeability and diffusivity tensors in homogeneous models. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2899/1/012004 SN - 1742-6596 VL - 2899/2024 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Alí A1 - Parra Lafuente, Adrián A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - A volume-averaging and stochastic turbulence modeling framework for homogeneous roughness-induced drag in turbulent flows T2 - Special Issue: 94th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) N2 - 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 that an assumed set of discrete roughness elements can behave as a probabilistic fractal set. Upon these assumptions, the surface characterization is complete and yields wall-normal profiles of porosity, average roughness element diameter, and equivalent pore diameter of the roughness affected porous flow. The profiles are supplied to a (pore-based) Reynolds number and porosity-based drag parameterization for staggered cylinder arrays available in the literature, as well as a one-dimensional map-based turbulence model, the one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model. The purpose of the latter is a way to provide the missing effects of the equivalent dispersion tensor in the porous flow close to the rough surface, as well as that of the nonlinear turbulent transport away from the wall. Simulations are then carried out in order to evaluate the effects of two different rough surfaces on a turbulent channel flow, comparing results with existing direct numerical simulation (DNS) data. Overall, reasonable agreement is obtained, which suggests that, by using the proposed model, it is possible to model the effects of rough surfaces on wall-bounded turbulent flows, without the explicit need of the full topological representation of the surface on the numerical domain. To that extent, one clear flow control application for the suggested approach would be that of drag-based surface optimization. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pamm.202400136 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.202400136 SN - 1617-7061 VL - 24 IS - 3 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Wiley ER - TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Alí A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Fractal roughness representation in a stochastic one-dimensional turbulence modeling approach T2 - Book of Abstracts 13th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP13), Montréal, Canada, June 25-28, 2024 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www-docs.b-tu.de/fg-stroemungsmodellierung/public/Medina_2024_TSFP13_Roughness_PFA_ODT.pdf CY - Montréal, Canada ER - TY - GEN A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Alí A1 - Dorneanu, Bogdan A1 - Schmidt, Heiko A1 - Arellano-García, Harvey T1 - Revisiting homogeneous modeling with volume averaging theory: structured catalysts for steam reforming and CO2 methanation T2 - Book of Abstracts XXVI Fluid Mechanics Conference (FMC 2024), Warsaw, Poland, September 10-13, 2024 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www-docs.b-tu.de/fg-stroemungsmodellierung/public/Medina_2024_AbstractFMC26_Catalysts.pdf PB - University of Technology CY - Warsaw ER - TY - GEN A1 - Naik Burye, Nishidh Shailesh A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Alí A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Revisiting near-wall modeling of fully developed turbulent flow in concentric annuli T2 - Jahresbericht 2024 zum 24. DGLR-Fachsymposium der STAB 13.-14. November 2024, Regensburg Y1 - 2024 UR - http://bfm.rcbe.de/files/2024/11/2024_STAB-Jahresbericht.pdf SP - 174 EP - 175 PB - Deutsche Strömungsmechanische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, STAB CY - Regensburg ER - TY - GEN A1 - Joshi, Abhishek A1 - Medina Mendez, Juan Ali A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Simulating homogenous isotropic turbulence with deterministic and stochastic forcings using a one-dimensional turbulence model N2 - To understand the intermittency present in scalar fields we need to address the expense of current start-of-art DNS to probe the higher-order structure functions. These higher order moments become increasingly sensitive to increasing Reλ and much more prone to extreme events. Here, in this work, we investigate using a Reduced order model(ODT) to simulate Homogenous Isotropic turbulence as an initial step towards that goal by employing a linear forcing [1] proposed by Lundgren that is proportional to local and instantaneous velocity. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www-docs.b-tu.de/fg-stroemungsmodellierung/public/Joshi_2024_MFM_Poster.pdf ER - TY - GEN A1 - Marinković, Pavle A1 - Medina Méndez, Juan Ali A1 - Schmidt, Heiko A1 - Klein, Marten T1 - Ongoing development of a hybrid reduced order stochastic/LES solver for turbulent flows Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www-docs.b-tu.de/fg-stroemungsmodellierung/public/Marinkovic_2024_EIZ_poster.pdf CY - Cottbus ER -