scholarly journals A PrioriDirect Numerical Simulation Modelling of the Curvature Term of the Flame Surface Density Transport Equation for Nonunity Lewis Number Flames in the Context of Large Eddy Simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit Katragadda ◽  
Nilanjan Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Transport Equation ◽  
Surface Density ◽  
Lewis Number ◽  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Flame Surface ◽  
Flame Surface Density ◽  
Curvature Term ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Large Eddy

A Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) database of freely propagating statistically planar turbulent premixed flames with Lewis numbersLeranging from 0.34 to 1.2 has been used to analyse the statistical behaviours of the curvature term of the generalised Flame surface Density (FSD) transport equation, in the context of the Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Lewis number is shown to have significant influences on the statistical behaviours of the resolved and sub-grid parts of the FSD curvature term. It has been found that the existing models for the sub-grid curvature termCsgdo not capture the qualitative behaviour of this term extracted from the DNS database for flames withLe<<1. The existing models ofCsgonly predict negative values, whereas the sub-grid curvature term is shown to assume positive values within the flame brush for theLe=0.34and 0.6 flames. Here the sub-grid curvature terms arising from combined reaction and normal diffusion and tangential diffusion components of displacement speed are individually modelled, and the new model of the sub-grid curvature term has been found to captureCsgextracted from DNS data satisfactorily for all the different Lewis number flames considered here for a wide range of filter widths.

scholarly journals Modelling of the Curvature Term of the Flame Surface Density Transport Equation for Large Eddy Simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit Katragadda ◽  
Nilanjan Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Transport Equation ◽  
Surface Density ◽  
Flame Surface ◽  
Flame Surface Density ◽  
New Model ◽  
Curvature Term ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Diffusion Component ◽  
Normal Diffusion ◽  
Displacement Speed

A simplified chemistry based three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) database of freely propagating statistically planar turbulent premixed flames with a range of different values of turbulent Reynolds number has been used for the a priori modelling of the curvature term of the generalised Flame Surface Density (FSD) transport equation in the context of Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The curvature term has been split into the contributions arising due to the reaction and normal diffusion components of displacement speed and the term originating from the tangential diffusion component of displacement speed. Subsequently, these contributions of the curvature term have been split into the resolved and subgrid contributions. New models have been proposed for the subgrid curvature terms arising from the combined reaction and normal diffusion components and the tangential diffusion component of displacement speed. The performances of the new model and the existing models for the subgrid curvature term have been compared with the corresponding quantity extracted from the explicitly filtered DNS data. The new model for the subgrid curvature term is shown to perform satisfactorily in all cases considered in the current study, accounting for wide variations in LES filter size.

scholarly journals Effects of Turbulent Reynolds Number on the Performance of Algebraic Flame Surface Density Models for Large Eddy Simulation in the Thin Reaction Zones Regime: A Direct Numerical Simulation Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit Katragadda ◽  
Nilanjan Chakraborty ◽  
R. S. Cant
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Fractal Dimension ◽  
Direct Numerical Simulation ◽  
Surface Density ◽  
Flame Surface ◽  
Algebraic Models ◽  
Flame Surface Density ◽  
Turbulent Reynolds Number ◽  
Reaction Zones

A direct numerical simulation (DNS) database of freely propagating statistically planar turbulent premixed flames with a range of different turbulent Reynolds numbers has been used to assess the performance of algebraic flame surface density (FSD) models based on a fractal representation of the flame wrinkling factor. The turbulent Reynolds number Rethas been varied by modifying the Karlovitz number Ka and the Damköhler number Da independently of each other in such a way that the flames remain within the thin reaction zones regime. It has been found that the turbulent Reynolds number and the Karlovitz number both have a significant influence on the fractal dimension, which is found to increase with increasing Retand Ka before reaching an asymptotic value for large values of Retand Ka. A parameterisation of the fractal dimension is presented in which the effects of the Reynolds and the Karlovitz numbers are explicitly taken into account. By contrast, the inner cut-off scale normalised by the Zel’dovich flame thicknessηi/δzdoes not exhibit any significant dependence on Retfor the cases considered here. The performance of several algebraic FSD models has been assessed based on various criteria. Most of the algebraic models show a deterioration in performance with increasing the LES filter width.

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