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Air seeding equipment consists of various machine components that rely on pneumatic conveying of seeds (granular material) for its operation. However, studying air seeder dynamic features in detail is difficult through experimental measurements. A simulation was performed to study seed motion in a horizontal tube section of an air seeder distributor system. The simulation incorporated two-way coupling between discrete element modeling (DEM) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Simulated particles were assigned material properties corresponding to field peas. Air velocity was assigned values of 10, 15, 20, and 25 m/s. The solid loading ratio (SLR) in this study included values between 0.5 and 3 to describe typical seed metering rates used in air seeding. The different pneumatic conveying conditions were studied to determine their overall effect on the average seed velocity and seed contact force. The simulation was validated through the comparison of average seed velocity data from the literature and current pneumatic conveying theory. The effect of SLR on the average seed velocity was found to be not significant for the simulated SLR values. The CFD-DEM simulation was able to capture seed collisions between seeds and the surrounding boundaries. The seed contact force increased with the air velocity, and the number of seed collisions increased with the SLR.

Coupled CFD-DEM Simulation of Seed Flow in an Air Seeder Distributor Tube