We are pleaded to announce the release of OpenQBMM 3.0.0. Major changes are summarized below: Multiphase solver polydisperseBubbleFoam for gas-liquid systems based on the solution of a generalized population balance equation for a joint size-velocity NDF (Contributed by Jeffrey Heylmun). The computational model allows each bubble size to have its own velocity (polycelerity), and relies […]
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We are happy to welcome Alessio Domenico Lavino, from the Politecnico di Torino, in our research group. Alessio is joining us for a six-month stay to collaborate on OpenQBMM applied to mixing and population balance equations.
New visiting scholar working on mixing and population balance equations
New documentation on case setup and numerical settings is being added to the User’s guide. The code documentation has also been updated to reflect the recent changes to the development branch of OpenQBMM.
User’s guide
We are happy to welcome Ehsan Askari Mahvelati, from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the University of Sherbrook, in our research group. Ehsan is joining us for a two-month stay to collaborate on OpenQBMM applied to bioreactors.
Visiting student working on OpenQBMM
The pre-print of our paper “An open-source quadrature-based population balance solver for OpenFOAM”, on population balance modeling with OpenQBMM is available on HAL. Please, find it at this link https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01481110.
Preprint of paper on population balance modeling with OpenQBMM
The OpenQBMM live distribution provides rapid access to OpenQBMM, without requiring to build the per-requisites of the code, and, eventually, without installing a Linux distribution. It is ideal for learning about OpenQBMM, and for training purposes. Several formats are available, as illustrated in the dedicated page. The images are created with SUSE Studio, and are […]
OpenQBMM live distribution
Windows 10 (Anniversary update or following) users can now run OpenFOAM and OpenQBMM. The steps to follow are simple: Install WSL as explained here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about Start Ubuntu for Windows Add the repository for OpenFOAM provided by the OpenFOAM foundation sudo add-apt-repository http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu sudo sh -c “wget -O – http://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -“ Refresh the […]
Run OpenQBMM on Windows 10
OpenQBMM 2.0.0 is now available! A list of the major changes follows. A general framework for the solution of evolution equations involving a distribution function was implemented (univariatePDFTransportModel). Turbulent mixing models: a new solver, mixingTransportFoam, is provided to solve turbulent mixing models using velocity fields obtained from RANS flows solvers. The following mixing models are […]
OpenQBMM 2.0.0
OpenQBMM will be presented at the 11th OpenFOAM Workshop on June 28th, 2016, in Guimarães, Portugal.
OpenQBMM at the 11th OpenFOAM Workshop
Our paper titled A conditional quadrature method of moments for turbulent mixing coupled to a population balance equation is going to be presented at ICMF (Firenze, Italy) on Wednesday, May 25th (11:30-12:50).
OpenQBMM work presented at ICMF in Florence
We will present the current features of OpenQBMM at the 1ère journée française des utilisateurs de OpenFOAM, on May 18th, 2016 in Rouen, Normandie, France.
OpenQBMM at the 1ère journée française des utilisateurs de OpenFOAM ...
I am pleased to announce the first stable release of OpenQBMM, which includes the following features: Implementation of the Extended Quadrature Method of Moments for lognormal and gamma kernel density functions. Implementation of univariate population balance solver with kernels for aggregation, breakup and growth, diffusion. pbeFoam – Population balance solver for zero-dimensional problems, mostly used […]
OpenQBMM 1.0.0 released!
We are pleased to announce that we now have a discussion board where questions concerning the project can be asked, and feedback can be provided. We also created an IRC channel for more direct interaction. You can find more details on our support page. Our legal page was updated to add links to policies of […]
Forums and IRC chatroom
A verification and validation study of pbeFoam, our zero-dimensional solver for the solution of population balance equations, is now available here. This study focuses on aggregation and breakup problems, and was performed with the objective of verifying and validating the implementation of the EQMOM procedure with log-normal kernel density functions.
pbeFoam – Verification and validation for aggregation and breakup problems
The installation instructions for the OpenQBMM code were updated, and include more details on how to proceed with the installation, and a complete guide at how to install the required version of OpenFOAM.