Effects of Fiber Arrangement on Flow Characteristics Along a Four-Fiber Element of Fiber Extractors.

ABSTRACT: Fiber extractors, as process-intensified equipment, facilitate many applications, such as the purification of oils. The development of high-fidelity computational models is crucial to optimize the design. However, simulating microscale flows around tens of thousands of microfiber arrays is computationally unfeasible. Thus, it is necessary to identify smaller elements, consisting of only a few fibers, that can represent flow within massively arrayed fiber extractors. This study employed computational fluid dynamics to investigate different configurations of four-fiber elements to achieve this aim. Following previous modeling featuring flow around only one fiber, the goal was to understand how variations in inter-fiber distances affect the phase structures of a corn oil/water mixture, the st

SUBMITTER: Ayeni OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12029199 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature