Towards CFD Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Turbulent Pipe Line Transportation

Safe and financially efficient pipeline transportation of carbon dioxide is a critical issue in the developing field of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology. Presence of large and small scale structures and high Reynolds numbers in the pipeline, draw special attention to numerical simulation of turbulent material transport through the individual components of the carbon dioxide (CO2) chain process. In this study Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of incompressible turbulent channel flow and pipe flow has been performed using OpenFoam an open source CFD tool. The results are compared with those from Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and the existing experimental data.