Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Structured Packings

Table 3

Liquid film thickness at different mesh sizes.

	Fine	Medium	Coarse
Rocha et al. [22] (for 3D modeling)
Number of computational cells	1657700	1315200	771584
Liquid film thickness (mm)	0.26	0.269	0.372
Rocha et al. [22] (for 2D modeling)
Number of computational cells	25000	22100	15500
Liquid film thickness (mm)	0.275	0.28	0.31
Cho et al. [23] (for 2D modeling)
Number of computational cells	20000	17280	10500
Liquid film thickness (mm)	0.265	0.27	0.30