In order to ensure the high carbon conversion in a short residence time in a coal slurry entrained gasifier, the objectiveof this study lies in to investigate the effect of important variables to influence on the complex reacting flow and therebyto clarify the physical feature occurring inside the gasifier using a comprehensive gasifier computer program. To this end,the gasification process of a 1.0ton/day gasifier is numerically modeled using the code of Fluent and systematicallyinvestigated with the change of major design and operation parameters. Special emphasis is given on the effect of theparticle size distribution on the gasification process, since it is associated with various length and time scales via multi-phase and with complex reacting flows. Three different particle sizes are tested for a given coal mass flow rate, the firstis 70µm mean diameter with Rosin-Rammler distribution based on the actual measurement. But in the other two casestwo uniform mean particle diameters are employed, that is, very fine 1µm and 70µm with mean diameter itself. Thecalculation results of these three cases show quite different flow pattern, temperature and reacting flows probably causedby the different particle trajectory as well as reaction rate. However, the results obtained can be explained in a consistentmanner with particle size. Especially, it is noted that the presence of coal particle, the diameter of which is larger thanthat of mean diameter of Rosin-Rammler distribution, shows a significantly retarded gasification reaction in a gasifier,even if its mass fraction is less than 50%.