1209 Optimization of Mixing Process using Particle Method MPS

Abstract

Efficient mixing or kneading process of materials having different material properties, e.g., density, viscosity, are required in many industries. In general mixing process contains many parameters to be adjusted for homogeneous and quick material mixing and much time and cost are needed to determine adequate parameters. So mixing process is considered as one of suitable manufacturing process to apply numerical optimization technique. Recently unique computational fluid dynamics software using Moving Particle Simulation (MPS) method have been developed. MPS is a kind of particle method and have been developed as an incompressible fluid flow solver. MPS is completely Lagrangian formulation and doesn't need spatial mesh definition. So MPS has many advantages especially for mixing simulation. In this paper efficient optimization technique using commercial MPS software Particleworks^[○!R] is demonstrated.