scholarly journals Large Eddy Simulation of a Premixed Flame in Hot Vitiated Crossflow With Analytically Reduced Chemistry

Author(s):  
Oliver Schulz ◽  
Nicolas Noiray

This numerical study deals with a premixed ethylene–air jet at 300 K injected into a hot vitiated crossflow at 1500 K and atmospheric pressure. The reactive jet in crossflow (RJICF) was simulated with compressible 3D large eddy simulations (LES) with an analytically reduced chemistry (ARC) mechanism and the dynamic thickened flame (DTF) model. ARC enables simulations of mixed combustion modes, such as autoignition and flame propagation, that are both present in this RJICF. 0D and 1D simulations provide a comparison with excellent agreement between ARC and detailed chemistry in terms of autoignition time and laminar flame speed. The effect of the DTF model on autoignition was investigated for varying species compositions and mesh sizes. Comparisons between LES and experiments are in good agreement for average velocity distributions and jet trajectories; LES remarkably capture experimentally observed flame dynamics. An analysis of the simulated RJICF shows that the leeward propagating flame has a stable flame root close to the jet exit. The lifted windward flame, on the contrary, is anchored in an intermittent fashion due to autoignition flame stabilization. The windward flame base convects downstream and is “brought back” by autoignition alternately. These autoignition events occur close to a thin layer that is associated with radical build-up and that stretches down to the jet exit.

Author(s):  
Oliver Schulz ◽  
Nicolas Noiray

This numerical study deals with a premixed ethylene-air jet at 300 K injected into a hot vitiated crossflow at 1500 K and atmospheric pressure. The reactive jet in crossflow (RJICF) was simulated with compressible 3-D large eddy simulations (LES) with an analytically reduced chemistry (ARC) mechanism and the dynamic thickened flame (DTF) model. ARC enables simulations of mixed combustion modes, such as autoignition and flame propagation, that are both present in this RJICF. 0-D and 1-D simulations provide a comparison with excellent agreement between ARC and detailed chemistry in terms of autoignition time and laminar flame speed. The effect of the DTF model on autoignition was investigated for varying species compositions and mesh sizes. Comparisons between LES and experiments are in good agreement for average velocity distributions and jet trajectories; LES remarkably capture experimentally observed flame dynamics. An analysis of the simulated RJICF shows that the leeward propagating flame has a stable flame root close to the jet exit. The lifted windward flame, on the contrary, is anchored in an intermittent fashion due to autoignition flame stabilization. The windward flame base convects downstream and is “brought back” by autoignition alternately. These autoignition events occur close to a thin layer that is associated with radical build-up and that stretches down to the jet exit.


Author(s):  
Ashoke De ◽  
Sumanta Acharya

A thickened-flame (TF) modeling approach is combined with a large eddy simulation (LES) methodology to model premixed combustion, and the accuracy of these model predictions is evaluated by comparing with the piloted premixed stoichiometric methane-air flame data of Chen et al. (1996, “The Detailed Flame Structure of Highly Stretched Turbulent Premixed Methane-Air Flames,” Combust. Flame, 107, pp. 233–244) at a Reynolds number Re=24,000. In the TF model, the flame front is artificially thickened to resolve it on the computational LES grid and the reaction rates are specified using reduced chemistry. The response of the thickened-flame to turbulence is taken care of by incorporating an efficiency function in the governing equations. The efficiency function depends on the characteristics of the local turbulence and on the characteristics of the premixed flame such as laminar flame speed and thickness. Three variants of the TF model are examined: the original thickened-flame model, the power-law flame-wrinkling model, and the dynamically modified TF model. Reasonable agreement is found when comparing predictions with the experimental data and with computations reported using a probability distribution function modeling approach. The results of the TF model are in better agreement with data when compared with the predictions of the G-equation approach.


Author(s):  
B. Franzelli ◽  
A. Vié ◽  
B. Fiorina ◽  
N. Darabiha

Accurate characterization of swirled flames is a key point in the development of more efficient and safer aeronautical engines. The task is even more challenging for spray injection systems. On the one side, spray interacts with both turbulence and flame, eventually affecting the flame dynamics. On the other side, spray flame structure is highly complex due to equivalence ratio inhomogeneities caused by the evaporation process. Introducing detailed chemistry in numerical simulations, necessary for the prediction of flame stabilization, ignition and pollutant concentration, is then essential but extremely expensive in terms of CPU time. In this context, tabulated chemistry methods, expressly developed to account for detailed chemistry at a reduced computational cost in Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent gaseous flames, are attractive. The objective of this work is to propose a first computation of a swirled spray flame stabilized in an actual turbojet injection system using tabulated chemistry. A Large Eddy Simulation of an experimental benchmark, representative of an industrial swirl two-phase air/kerosene injection system, is performed using a standard tabulated chemistry method. The numerical results are compared to the experimental database in terms of mean and fluctuating axial velocity. The reactive two-phase flow is deeper investigated focusing on the flame structure and dynamics.


Author(s):  
V. A. SABELNIKOV ◽  
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V. V. VLASENKO ◽  
S. BAKHNE ◽  
S. S. MOLEV ◽  
...  

Gasdynamics of detonation waves was widely studied within last hundred years - analytically, experimentally, and numerically. The majority of classical studies of the XX century were concentrated on inviscid aspects of detonation structure and propagation. There was a widespread opinion that detonation is such a fast phenomenon that viscous e¨ects should have insigni¦cant in§uence on its propagation. When the era of calculations based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier- Stokes (RANS) and large eddy simulation approaches came into effect, researchers pounced on practical problems with complex geometry and with the interaction of many physical effects. There is only a limited number of works studying the in§uence of viscosity on detonation propagation in supersonic §ows in ducts (i. e., in the presence of boundary layers).


Author(s):  
Kin’ya Takahashi ◽  
Masataka Miyamoto ◽  
Yasunori Ito ◽  
Toshiya Takami ◽  
Taizo Kobayashi ◽  
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The acoustic mechanisms of 2D and 3D edge tones and a 2D small air-reed instrument have been studied numerically with compressible Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Sound frequencies of the 2D and 3D edge tones obtained numerically change with the jet velocity well following Brown’s semi-empirical equation, while that of the 2D air-reed instrument behaves in a different manner and obeys the semi-empirical theory, so called Cremer-Ising-Coltman theory. We have also calculated aerodynamic sound sources for the 2D edge tone and the 2D air-reed instrument relying on Ligthhill’s acoustic analogy and have discussed similarities and differences between them. The sound source of the air-reed instrument is more localized around the open mouth compared with that of the edge tone due to the effect of the strong sound field excited in the resonator.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiajun Chen ◽  
Yue Sun ◽  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Dakui Feng ◽  
Zhiguo Zhang

Mixing in pipe junctions can play an important role in exciting force and distribution of flow in pipe network. This paper investigated the cross pipe junction and proposed an improved plan, Y-shaped pipe junction. The numerical study of a three-dimensional pipe junction was performed for calculation and improved understanding of flow feature in pipe. The filtered Navier–Stokes equations were used to perform the large-eddy simulation of the unsteady incompressible flow in pipe. From the analysis of these results, it clearly appears that the vortex strength and velocity non-uniformity of centerline, can be reduced by Y-shaped junction. The Y-shaped junction not only has better flow characteristic, but also reduces head loss and exciting force. The results of the three-dimensional improvement analysis of junction can be used in the design of pipe network for industry.


Author(s):  
Veeraraghava Raju Hasti ◽  
Gaurav Kumar ◽  
Shuaishuai Liu ◽  
Robert P. Lucht ◽  
Jay P. Gore

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfei Ma ◽  
Jiahuan Cui ◽  
Nagabhushana Rao Vadlamani ◽  
Paul Tucker

Inlet distortion often occurs under off-design conditions when a flow separates within an intake and this unsteady phenomenon can seriously impact fan performance. Fan–distortion interaction is a highly unsteady aerodynamic process into which high-fidelity simulations can provide detailed insights. However, due to limitations on the computational resource, the use of an eddy resolving method for a fully resolved fan calculation is currently infeasible within industry. To solve this problem, a mixed-fidelity computational fluid dynamics method is proposed. This method uses the large Eddy simulation (LES) approach to resolve the turbulence associated with separation and the immersed boundary method (IBM) with smeared geometry (IBMSG) to model the fan. The method is validated by providing comparisons against the experiment on the Darmstadt Rotor, which shows a good agreement in terms of total pressure distributions. A detailed investigation is then conducted for a subsonic rotor with an annular beam-generating inlet distortion. A number of studies are performed in order to investigate the fan's influence on the distortions. A comparison to the case without a fan shows that the fan has a significant effect in reducing distortions. Three fan locations are examined which reveal that the fan nearer to the inlet tends to have a higher pressure recovery. Three beams with different heights are also tested to generate various degrees of distortion. The results indicate that the fan can suppress the distortions and that the recovery effect is proportional to the degree of inlet distortion.


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