Hi all,
as the topic suggests, does anyone know if the TFM model can be used to model snow deposition and erosion? Specifically on roofs. One issue with regular CFD tools is that they approximate deposition and erosion as particle transport is not so easily modeled. My hope is that MFiX and TFM can be used, where the particle transport is supported more natively. Breaking off chunks of snow due to wind is not so easily modeled in regular CFD tools, where mostly erosion models work due to skin friction.
And secondly, has the been any improvements recently on stability using turbulence models, when using gas instead of liquid with TFM? I have had issues in MFiX in the past where I never could get the turbulence model to work, only for liquids.
This is typically how I’ve looked into snow transport before using other CFD tools, but then only getting “snow concentrations” on the surfaces, not a real physical build up.
