The traditional fixed-bed reactor design is usually not suitable for the low tube-to-particle diameter ratios (

N

=

D/d

8) where the local phenomena of channeling near the wall and backflow in the bed are dominant. The recent "solid particle" meshing method is too complicated for mesh generation

especially for non-spherical particles in large random packed beds

which seriously hinders its development. In this work

a novel high-fidelity mesh model is proposed for simulation of fixed bed reactors by combining the immersed boundary and adaptive meshing methods. This method is suitable for different shapes of particles

which ingeniously avoids handling the complex "contact point" problem. Several packed beds with two different shapes of particles are investigated with this model

and the local flow in the bed is simulated without geometrical simplification. The predicted pressure drop across the fixed bed and heat transfer of the single particle are in good agreement with the corresponding empirical relations. Compared with spherical particles

the packed bed packing with pentaphyllous particles has lower pressure drop and better heat/mass transfer performance

and it shows that this method can be used for the screening of particle shapes in a fixed bed.