Development of snowYadeFoam solver for snow particles simulation

The research and modeling of the icing process is important for the aircraft industry, wind power, energy supply and other areas of human life in the northern regions. In this paper, we carry out a numerical simulation of the icing of a model body using the Euler-Lagrangian (CFD-DEM) approach. The free open source package YADE is used to calculate the motion of snow crystals, and the free open source package OpenFOAM is used to simulate flow hydrodynamics. The snowYadeFoam solver is being developed, based on the icoFoamYade solver for calculating the interaction of snow crystals with each other and with a streamlined body. A “cohesive frictional material” model is used in the calculations, which describes the cohesion of particles to each other, adhesion of particles to model body and friction during their interaction.