COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF COUNTERFLOW TURBULENT PREMIXED FLAMES BY THE COHERENT FLAMELET MODEL

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1A) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
E. Lee ◽  
K.Y. Huh

The Coherent Flamelet Model (CFM) is applied to symmetric counterflow turbulent premixed flames studied by Kostiuk et al. The flame source term is set proportional to the sum of the mean and turbulent rate of strain while flame quenching is modeled by an additional multiplication factor to the flame source term. The turbulent rate of strain is set proportional to the turbulent intensity to match the correlation for the turbulent burning velocity investigated by Abdel-Gayed et al. The predicted flame position and turbulent flow field coincide well with the experimental observations. The relationship between the Reynolds averaged reaction progress variable and flame density seems to show a wrong trend due to inappropriate modeling of the sink and source term in the transport equation.

Author(s):  
Kazuya Tsuboi ◽  
Shinnosuke Nishiki ◽  
Tatsuya Hasegawa

An analysis of local flame area was performed using DNS (Direct Numerical Simulation) databases of turbulent premixed flames with different density ratios and with different Lewis numbers. Firstly, a local flame surface at a prescribed progress variable was identified as a local three-dimensional polygon. And then the polygon was divided into some triangles and local flame area was evaluated. The turbulent burning velocity was evaluated using the ratio of the area of turbulent flame to that of planar flame and compared with the turbulent burning velocity obtained by the reaction rate.


2013 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
pp. 484-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Hyuk Shin ◽  
Timothy Lieuwen

AbstractThis paper describes analyses of the nonlinear dynamics of harmonically forced, turbulent premixed flames. A key objective of this work is to analyse the ensemble-averaged dynamics of the flame front position, $\langle \xi \rangle $, excited by harmonic forcing of amplitude $\varepsilon $, in the presence of stochastic flow fluctuations of amplitude $\mu $. Low-amplitude and/or near-field effects are quantified by a third-order perturbation analysis, while the more general case is analysed computationally by solving the three-dimensional level-set equation, extracting the instantaneous flame position, and ensemble averaging the results. We show that different mechanisms contribute to smoothing of flame wrinkles, manifested as progressive decay in the magnitude of $\langle \xi \rangle $. Near the flame holder, random phase jitter, associated with stochastic velocity fluctuations tangential to the flame, is dominant. Farther downstream, propagation of the ensemble-averaged front normal to itself at the time-averaged turbulent burning velocity, $ \overline{{S}_{T, eff} } $, leads to destruction of wrinkles, analogous to the laminar case, an effect that scales with $\mu $. A second, new result is the demonstration that the ensemble-averaged turbulent burning velocity, ${S}_{T, eff} (s, t)$, is modulated by the harmonic forcing, i.e. ${S}_{T, eff} (s, t)= \overline{{S}_{T, eff} (s)} + { S}_{T, eff}^{\prime } (s, t)$, where ${ S}_{T, eff}^{\prime } $ has an inverse dependence upon the instantaneous, ensemble averaged-flame curvature, an effect that scales with $\varepsilon $ and $\mu $. We show that this curvature dependence follows from basic application of Huygens propagation to flames with stochastic wrinkling superimposed upon base curvature. This effect also leads to smoothing of flame wrinkles and is analogous to stretch processes in positive-Markstein-length, laminar flames.


Author(s):  
Kazuya Tsuboi ◽  
Tatsuya Hasegawa

To investigate the relationship between local burning velocity and flame displacement speed with different density ratio, a numerical analysis was performed using DNS databases of statistically steady and fully developed turbulent premixed flames. The local burning velocity based on fuel consumption rate is considered to be most appropriate as the definition of burning rate because combustion is a kind of chemical reactions. Since it is impossible, however, that the local burning velocity is obtained experimentally by using any present measurement technology, the numerical results using the local burning velocity cannot be compared with any experimental data. Hence the flame displacement speed, which can be obtained and compared easily with experiments, has previously been used for numerical analyses. Thus, to realize comparison of numerical results using the local burning velocity with some experimental ones, it is necessary to reveal the relationship between the local burning velocity and the flame displacement speed.


Author(s):  
Hideaki Kobayashi

Two high-pressure combustion phenomena recently observed by the author’s group are reviewed. The first one is the flame spread of a droplet array in the supercritical pressure range of the fuel in microgravity. Microgravity experiments are essential for research on droplet combustion, especially at high pressure, because of the large Grashof number in normal gravity. The flame spread rate for an n-decane droplet array was measured at high pressure, and a fuel-vapor jet was found to be generated due to an imbalance of surface tension of the droplet surface, leading to a higher flame spread rate. The second phenomenon is turbulent premixed combustion at high pressure and high temperature, environmental conditions of which are very close to those in SI engines and premixed-type gas turbine combustors. Information on the flame characteristics in such conditions has been very limited. A high-pressure combustion test facility with a large high-pressure combustion chamber enabled us to stabilize turbulent premixed flames with a high turbulence Reynolds number and to perform flame observations and measurements for extended period using lasers. Turbulent burning velocity was successfully measured and significant effects of intrinsic flame instability on flame structure and turbulent burning velocity at high pressure were revealed. Effects of CO2 dilution on high-pressure and high-temperature premixed flames were also investigated to evaluate the fundamental effects of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in practical high-load high-pressure combustors.


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 1367-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasim Shahbazian ◽  
M. Mahdi Salehi ◽  
Clinton P.T. Groth ◽  
Ömer L. Gülder ◽  
W. Kendal Bushe

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