Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in the E-Cigarettes Industry

Abstract

An advanced pod E-cigarette, launched by Shenzhen Woody Vapes Technology Co., Ltd., was researched and analysed in this paper with the help of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. The standard k-ε turbulent model was introduced to simulate the flow of air, the Broadband Noise Source model adapted to measure the noise and the Discrete Phase Model (DPM) used to calculate the trajectories of the aerosols. The pressure, velocity and noise fields, the trajectories of the aerosols, obtained by Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation, were analysed to optimize the structure design of this pod system. Several related experiments were performed and significant improvement was also confirmed.