Prediction of Radiative Transport in Nonhomogeneous Combustion Gas Mixtures With a Wide Band G(K) Model

Author(s):  
Liping Liu ◽  
Jing He

A wide band cumulative absorption coefficient distribution, g(k), model is adopted to predict radiative transport in combustion gas mixtures. Prior research has demonstrated similar accuracy of the model to the statistical narrow-band model and superiority to the exponential wideband model under isothermal and homogeneous conditions. This study aims to assess its usefulness in nonhomogeneous media. Sample calculations are performed in a 1D planar slab containing H2O/CO2 mixtures. The six-flux discrete ordinate method (S6-DOM) is employed to solve the radiative transfer equation (RTE), followed by an eight-point Gaussian quadrature of moments with zeroth-order fit. Predictions on the radiative source distribution along the slab and the net radiative flux at the walls are compared to the benchmark line-by-line calculation (LBL) and the statistical narrow-band correlated-k distribution model using the 7-point Gauss-Lobatto quadrature scheme (SNBCK-7). The differences between the g(k) model and LBL are below 5% for a large domain of the layer, with a CPU reduction by a factor of over 30 compared to SNBCK-7 and on the order of 104∼105 compared to LBL. The wide band g(k) model shows significant promise as an accurate and efficient tool to predict radiative transfer in nonhomogenerous media for combustion and fire simulations.

Author(s):  
German Malikov ◽  
Alexandr Titaev ◽  
Vladimir Lisienko ◽  
Raymond Viskanta

A new and simple expression for the calculation of the total gas emittance of H2O-CO2 mixtures for modeling radiation transfer in combustion furnaces is presented. Its accuracy is established by comparing the predictions with those based on the well established exponential wide band model. The computational time was found to be reduced by a factor of 10–30 in comparison to other methods for computing the total emittance of combustion gas mixtures.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1008-1009 ◽  
pp. 839-845
Author(s):  
Yue Zhou ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Hai Yang Hu

The k-distribution method applied in narrow band and wide band is extended to the full spectrum based on spectroscopic datebase HITEMP, educing the full-spectrum k-distribution model. Absorption coefficents in this model are reordered into a smooth,monotonically increasing function such that the intensity calculations are performed only once for each absorption coefficent value and the resulting computations are immensely more efficent.Accuracy of this model is examined for cases ranging from homogeneous one-dimensional carbon dioxide to inhomogeneous ones with simultaneous variations in temperature. Comparision with line-by-line calculations (LBL) and narrow-band k-distribution (NBK) method as well as wide-band k-distribution (WBK) method shows that the full-spectrum k-distribution model is exact for homogeneous media, although the errors are greater than the other two models. After dividing the absorption coefficients into several groups according to their temperature dependence, the full-spectrum k-distribution model achieves line-by-line accuracy for gases inhomogeneous in temperature, accompanied by lower computational expense as compared to NBK model or WBK model. It is worth noting that a new grouping scheme is provided in this paper.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 946-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Kim ◽  
J. A. Menart ◽  
H. S. Lee

The S-N discrete ordinates method is applied to analyze radiative heat transfer in nongray gases. Spectral correlation between the terms in the equation of transfer is considered for black or nearly nonreflecting walls. Formulations to apply the S-N method using a narrow-band or the exponential wide-band model are presented. The net radiative wall heat fluxes and the radiative source distributions are obtained for uniform, parabolic, and boundary layer type temperature profiles, as well as for a parabolic concentration profile. The narrow- and wide-band nongray solutions are compared with gray-band approximations using the same band models. The computational speed of the gray-band approximation is obtained at the expense of accuracy in the internal fluxes and radiative source distributions. The wall radiative flux predictions by the gray-band approximation are satisfactory.


2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhixiong Guo ◽  
Shigenao Maruyama

The radiation element method by ray emission method, REM2, has been formulated to predict radiative heat transfer in three-dimensional arbitrary participating media with nongray and anisotropically scattering properties surrounded by opaque surfaces. To validate the method, benchmark comparisons were conducted against the existing several radiation methods in a rectangular three-dimensional media composed of a gas mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen and suspended carbon particles. Good agreements between the present method and the Monte Carlo method were found with several particle density variations, in which participating media of optical thin, medium, and thick were included. As a numerical example, the present method is applied to predict radiative heat transfer in a boiler model with nonisothermal combustion gas and carbon particles and diffuse surface wall. Elsasser narrow-band model as well as exponential wide-band model is adopted to consider the spectral character of CO2 and H2O gases. The distributions of heat flux and heat flux divergence in the boiler furnace are obtained. The difference of results between narrow-band and wide-band models is discussed. The effects of gas model, particle density, and anisotropic scattering are scrutinized.


1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (14) ◽  
pp. 2227-2236 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Liu ◽  
Ö.L. Gülder ◽  
G.J. Smallwood ◽  
Y. Ju

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Liu

Three-dimensional non-grey gas radiation analyses were conducted using the statistical narrow-band model along with up-dated band parameters. The exact narrow-band averaged radiative transfer equation was solved using a ray-tracing method. Accurate numerical results were presented for non-grey real gas radiative transfer in a three-dimensional rectangular enclosure containing (i) an isothermal pure water vapor at 1000 K and 1 atm, (ii) an isothermal and inhomogeneous H2O/N2 mixture at 1000 K and 1 atm, and (iii) a nonisothermal and homogeneous mixture of CO2/H2O/N2 at 1 atm.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Liu ◽  
S. N. Tiwari

The Monte Carlo method (MCM) is applied to analyze radiative heat transfer in nongray gases. The nongray model employed is based on the statistical narrow band model with an exponential-tailed inverse intensity distribution. The amount and transfer of the emitted radiative energy in a finite volume element within a medium are considered in an exact manner. The spectral correlation between transmittances of two different segments of the same path in a medium makes the statistical relationship different from the conventional relationship that only provides the noncorrelated results for nongray analysis. Two features of the MCM that are different from other nongray numerical methods are discussed. The simplicity of the MCM is demonstrated by considering the case of radiative transfer between two reflecting walls. The results for the radiative dissipation distributions and the net radiative wall heat fluxes are obtained for uniform, parabolic, and boundary layer type temperature profiles, as well as for a parabolic concentration profile. They are compared with available results of other methods. Good agreements are found for all the cases considered.


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