Particle migration modeling in solid propellants

Particle migration modeling in solid propellants

Raoul Andriulli, Nabil Souhair, Luca Fadigati, Mattia Magnani, Fabrizio Ponti

Abstract. This work presents the development of an OpenFOAM solver to predict the migration of solid particles in concentrated suspensions under non-uniform shear flow. The solver modifies the pimpleFoam solver by implementing the conservation equation for particle volume fraction. It adapts the equation of motion for non-Newtonian flows and establishes a model for the viscous field using Krieger’s correlation. The code is successfully validated by the experimental results from literature.

Keywords
Solid Rocket Motors, Casting Process, Particle Migration, Numerical Simulation, OpenFOAM

Published online 11/1/2023, 5 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Raoul Andriulli, Nabil Souhair, Luca Fadigati, Mattia Magnani, Fabrizio Ponti, Particle migration modeling in solid propellants, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 690-694, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-147

The article was published as article 147 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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