Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: Porous medium REVs represented by fluid/solid-cylinder and fluid/porous-cylinder interactions

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: Computational domain of a representative unit structure; the depth is H

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: Velocity profiles at the outlet for grid independence check for flow through an REV with impermeable square rods with (a) FLUENT and (b) IB method

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: A comparison of streamwise velocity contours between (a) FLUENT and (b) the IB method. The contour level is 0∼3 for both pictures.

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: The parallel speedup with different number of processes

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: The correlation between the dimensionless pressure drop and ε3/(1 – ε)2 for 2D patterns of objects in REVs. The solid line is for the analytical values based on the permeability equation expressed in the figure. The symbols indicate the results from simulations of the IB method. (a) Square rods and (b) circular rods.

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: The correlation between the dimensionless pressure drop and ε3/(1 – ε)2 for 3D patterns of objects in REVs. The solid line implies the analytical values based on the permeability equation attached on the figure. The symbols indicate the results from simulations of the IB method. (a) Cubes and (b) spheres.

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: Species percentage sorption with different patterns of REV with impermeable materials

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: Species percentage sorption with solid or microporous circular rods in REV

Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Computation of Flow Through a Three-Dimensional Periodic Array of Porous Structures by a Parallel Immersed-Boundary Method J. Fluids Eng. 2014;136(4):040905-040905-10. doi:10.1115/1.4026357 Figure Legend: Species percentage sorption with solid or microporous circular rods in REV in comparison with that of the analytical solution in a uniform porous medium