湍流分层燃烧的直接数值模拟和小火焰模型研究

湍流分层燃烧广泛应用于工业燃烧装置,但是目前还比较缺乏适用于湍流分层燃烧的高精度数值模型。本文利用直接数值模拟数据库,对高Karlovitz数分层射流火焰的小火焰模型表现进行了先验性评估。考虑了两种小火焰模型,一种是基于自由传播层流预混火焰的小火焰模型M1,另一种是基于分层对冲小火焰的小火焰模型M2。研究发现M1和M2在c-Z空间的结果与直接数值模拟在定性上是一致的。在物理空间,M2对过程变量反应速率脉动值的预测结果要优于M1.     

小火焰模型在贫燃预混火焰中的研究

由层流小火焰库引入详细化学反应机理,通过简化的PDF方法计算组分浓度、平均温度和密度等变量,以钝体火焰稳定燃烧室和某燃气轮机上的燃烧室为例,模拟甲烷/空气贫燃条件下预混燃烧的平均火焰位置和火焰厚度,计算结果与实验结果吻合良好,这表明此方法能够较好计算出平均湍流火焰的主要特征。     

湍流燃烧二阶矩模型的研究进展

湍流燃烧模型在燃烧过程数值模拟中十分重要。商业软件中仍然应用的简单模型,如EBU和预设PDF模型,常常不能很好地模拟有限反应动力学。目前通行的湍流燃烧模型,如层流小火焰模型和条件矩模型,只对一定的火焰类型和火焰结构的效果较好。PDF方程模型更通用,但计算量太大,用于大涡模拟更是如此。另一类是统计矩模型,即基于湍流模型的思路,用雷诺展开和取平均,封闭未知项的二阶矩模型,但是遇到了高度非线性的温度指数函数的困难。不同研究者采取了不同的近似处理,都低估了时平均反应率。作者彻底放弃各种近似方法,构建了终版的二阶矩模型,用于不同的单相和两相燃烧的雷诺平均模拟和大涡模拟,得到了实验验证和直接数值模拟的验证。     

基于WSGGM模型修正的对冲火焰燃烧分区特性研究

本文利用灰气体加权平均模型(Weighted Sum of Gray Gases Model,WSGGM)对对流扩散火焰模型(OPPDIF)中的能量方程进行修正,并对高温扩散均相燃烧结构模型(Hot Diluted Diffusion Ignition,HDDI)在常规空气和富氧环境进行对冲火焰燃烧数值模拟。结果表明,相对于标准模型,采用修正模型所得到的温度分布在常规空气和富氧气氛下均较低且温度分布特性变化较大。本文进一步明确无焰燃烧的临界条件,对高温扩散均相燃烧模型分析表明,在T_f较高且X_f较低时,甲烷燃料的化学热解区域消失,燃料在燃烧周期内只表现出热释放特性。通过建立的燃烧区域和燃烧路径分析得知,无焰富氧燃烧相比于空气无焰燃烧更容易达到但更难维持,而相对于常规有焰燃烧,无论是在常规空气气氛下还是在富氧气氛下,其化学反应速率均下降一个量级。而由于富氧环境下的CO_2富集,抑制了H和OH基团的生成,使得C1反应链更加具有活性。     

加力燃烧室热态流场的大涡模拟

本文采用k方程亚网格尺度模型对带V形槽稳定器模型加力燃烧室紊流化学反应流进行大涡模拟的研究,采用亚网格EBU燃烧模型估算化学反应速率,用热通量辐射模型估算辐射通量。数值计算表明,在稳定器后面开始在短时间内出现涡的交替脱落和逐渐消失过程,然后形成稳定的回流区,数值计算结果与实验比较吻合,表明可用大涡模拟研究实际燃烧室瞬态燃烧流场。     

非预混燃烧大涡模拟的代数二阶矩模型

一种改进的代数二阶矩燃烧模型被应用在Flame-D的大涡模拟中。代数二阶矩模型能够将化学反应速率的脉动项进行模拟,更准确地计算化学反应速率。在实际燃烧过程中,化学反应速率不仅与当地的温度以及组分浓度等相关,更与反应物的混合速率有密切的关系。研究考虑了亚网格尺度内混合速率对化学反应速率的影响,提出了改进的代数二阶矩模型。通过与相同模拟条件下的涡耗散概念模型的模拟结果以及实验结果进行对比,改进的代数二阶矩模型的准确性得到了验证,同时亚网格化学反应速率的模拟对总化学反应速率的影响也得到了研究。     

旋流和无旋突扩流动的LES和RANS模拟

本文用smagorinsky-Lilly亚网格尺度湍流模型对旋流突扩流动(s=0.53)和无旋突扩流动(s=0)进行了大涡模拟(LES模拟),同时分别用压力应变项为IPCM和IPCM+Wall模型的雷诺应力方程模型进行了RANS模拟,和LES的统计结果对比。LES的统计结果与雷诺应力模型的模拟结果及实验对照表明,LES结果与实验结果的吻合比雷诺应力模型的好,说明所用的亚网格尺度湍流模型对旋流流动是适用的,LES结果是可信的。LES的瞬态结果揭示出在旋流作用下,流场中存在复杂的旋涡脱落现象。大涡结构极易破碎成小涡,而在无旋突扩流动的情况下,由于剪切的作用更强,大涡结构的尺寸和范围比旋流流动的要大。     

煤粉低尘燃烧器热态试验研究

以液排渣旋风燃烧技术为基础的煤粉低尘燃烧器可在燃烧过程实现捕渣,为工业加热提供含尘浓度低的高温火焰,是工业加热过程实现以煤代油的先进燃烧技术。本论文介绍了新型煤粉低尘燃烧器的热态燃烧试验研究结果,该燃烧器采用端面旋流进风,煤粉和一次风在旋转气流外层送入,分级燃烧等技术。热态试验研究表明,采用上述技术的煤粉低尘燃烧器具有燃烧完全,捕渣率高,NOx排放浓度低等特点。     

甲醇喷雾湍流反应流的JPDF数值模拟

喷雾湍流燃烧过程中,液滴、湍流和化学反应之间强烈耦合,物理化学机理非常复杂。本文将速度-标量-频率联合概率密度函数JPDF输运方程方法应用于两相喷雾湍流反应流问题,利用火焰面模型解耦流动和化学反应动力学的耦合关系,建立起相应的数值计算模型。采用Monte-Carlo数值计算方法,针对澳大利亚悉尼大学Masri等人以甲醇为燃料所进行的湍流喷雾燃烧值班火焰这一试验进行了数值模拟,通过与Fluent下的计算结果及试验结果的对比分析,验证了本文所建模型的准确性。     

旋流气粒两相流动的研究

旋流气粒两相流动广泛存在于燃气轮机燃烧室,旋风分离器和旋风炉,锅炉旋流燃烧器等装置中。用测量和数值模拟更好地了解其流动特性,对优化和放大设计,用以提高燃烧效率和收集效率、降低流动阻力和污染物排放,稳定火焰,都十分重要。对其进行了系统的实验测量和数值模拟研究,包括用相位多普勒仪等测量进行的实验研究,雷诺平均模拟和大涡模拟的数值研究,阐明了两相速度,两相湍流特性和颗粒浓度分布等规律,有助于研制低阻力和高效率低污染燃烧装置。     

Application and theoretical analysis of the flamelet model for supersonic turbulent combustion flows in the scramjet engine

In the framework of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulation, supersonic turbulent combustion flows at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) combustor and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) integrated scramjet engine are numerically simulated using the flamelet model. Based on the DLR combustor case, theoretical analysis and numerical experiments conclude that: the finite rate model only implicitly considers the large-scale turbulent effect and, due to the lack of the small-scale non-equilibrium effect, it would overshoot the peak temperature compared to the flamelet model in general. Furthermore, high-Mach-number compressibility affects the flamelet model mainly through two ways: the spatial pressure variation and the static enthalpy variation due to the kinetic energy. In the flamelet library, the mass fractions of the intermediate species, e.g. OH, are more sensible to the above two effects than the main species such as H₂O. Additionally, in the combustion flowfield where the pressure is larger than the value adopted in the generation of the flamelet library or the conversion from the static enthalpy to the kinetic energy occurs, the temperature obtained by the flamelet model without taking compressibility effects into account would be undershot, and vice versa. The static enthalpy variation effect has only little influence on the temperature simulation of the flamelet model, while the effect of the spatial pressure variation may cause relatively large errors. From the JAXA case, it is found that the flamelet model cannot in general be used for an integrated scramjet engine. The existence of the inlet together with the transverse injection scheme could cause large spatial variations of pressure, so the pressure value adopted for the generation of a flamelet library should be fine-tuned according to a pre-simulation of pure mixing.     

Prediction of soot and thermal radiation in a model gas turbine combustor burning kerosene fuel spray at different swirl levels

Combustion of kerosene fuel spray has been numerically simulated in a laboratory scale combustor geometry to predict soot and the effects of thermal radiation at different swirl levels of primary air flow. The two-phase motion in the combustor is simulated using an Eulerian–Lagragian formulation considering the stochastic separated flow model. The Favre-averaged governing equations are solved for the gas phase with the turbulent quantities simulated by realisable k–? model. The injection of the fuel is considered through a pressure swirl atomiser and the combustion is simulated by a laminar flamelet model with detailed kinetics of kerosene combustion. Soot formation in the flame is predicted using an empirical model with the model parameters adjusted for kerosene fuel. Contributions of gas phase and soot towards thermal radiation have been considered to predict the incident heat flux on the combustor wall and fuel injector. Swirl in the primary flow significantly influences the flow and flame structures in the combustor. The stronger recirculation at high swirl draws more air into the flame region, reduces the flame length and peak flame temperature and also brings the soot laden zone closer to the inlet plane. As a result, the radiative heat flux on the peripheral wall decreases at high swirl and also shifts closer to the inlet plane. However, increased swirl increases the combustor wall temperature due to radial spreading of the flame. The high incident radiative heat flux and the high surface temperature make the fuel injector a critical item in the combustor. The injector peak temperature increases with the increase in swirl flow mainly because the flame is located closer to the inlet plane. On the other hand, a more uniform temperature distribution in the exhaust gas can be attained at the combustor exit at high swirl condition.     

拉伸流扩散火焰面结构及熄火的研究

对拉伸层流扩散火焰面进行了数值模拟,考察了在以往湍流燃烧的火焰面模型中,假定Lewis数等于1的可靠性,研究了不同分子扩散和火焰辐射对火焰面结构、氮氧化物排放和熄火临界的影响.计算结果表明,Lewis数等于1的假定在火焰面结构的计算中存在很大的近似性,火焰辐射可以引起低拉伸条件下的熄火临界.     

Effect of swirl on combustion dynamics in a lean-premixed swirl-stabilized combustor

The effect of inlet swirl on the flow development and combustion dynamics in a lean-premixed swirl-stabilized combustor has been numerically investigated using a large-eddy-simulation (LES) technique along with a level-set flamelet library approach. Results indicate that when the inlet swirl number exceeds a critical value, a vortex-breakdown-induced central toroidal recirculation zone is established in the downstream region. As the swirl number increases further, the recirculation zone moves upstream and merges with the wake recirculation zone behind the centerbody. Excessive swirl may cause the central recirculating flow to penetrate into the inlet annulus and lead to the occurrence of flame flashback. A higher swirl number tends to increase the turbulence intensity, and consequently the flame speed. As a result, the flame surface area is reduced. The net heat release, however, remains almost unchanged because of the enhanced flame speed. Transverse acoustic oscillations often prevail under the effects of strong swirling flows, whereas longitudinal modes dominate the wave motions in cases with weak swirl. The ensuing effect on the flow/flame interactions in the chamber is substantial.     

Computational investigations of the coupling between transient flame dynamics and thermo-acoustic instability in a self-excited resonance combustor

Combustion instability due to thermo-acoustic interactions is a critical combustion problem that requires a thorough understanding because of its adverse impact on stable and reliable operation of combustors in high-speed propulsion devices like gas turbines and rockets. This work conducts computational investigations of the coupling between the transient flame dynamics such as the ignition delay and local extinction and the thermo-acoustic instability developed in a self-excited resonance combustor to gain deep insights into the mechanisms of thermo-acoustic instability. A 2D modelling framework that employs different flamelet models (the steady flamelet model and the flamelet/progress variable approach) is developed to enable the examination of the effect of the transient flame dynamics caused by the strong coupling of the turbulent mixing and finite-rate chemical kinetics on the occurrence of thermo-acoustic instability. The models are validated by using the available experimental data for the pressure signal. Parametric studies are performed to examine the effect of the occurrence of the transient flame dynamics, the effect of artificial amplification of the Damköhler number, and the effect of neglecting mixture fraction fluctuations on the predictions of the thermo-acoustic instability. The parametric studies reveal that the occurrence of transient flame dynamics has a strong influence on the onset of the thermo-acoustic instability. Further analysis is then conducted to localise the effect of a particular flame dynamic event, the ignition delay, on the thermo-acoustic instability. The reverse effect of the occurrence of the thermo-acoustic instability on the transient flame dynamics in the combustor is also investigated by examining the temporal evolution of the local flame events in conjunction with the pressure wave propagation. The above observed two-way coupling between the transient flame dynamics (the ignition delay) and the thermo-acoustic instability provides a plausible mechanism of the self-excited and sustained thermo-acoustic instability observed in the combustor despite the fact that the results are obtained from 2D simulations. The same analysis is expected to be extensible to fully 3D simulations.     

Combustion and emission modelling of a direct-injection spark-ignition engine by combining flamelet models for premixed and diffusion flames

The combustion and emission production processes of a DISI (direct-injection spark-ignition) engine were modelled by combining flamelet models for premixed and diffusion flames. A new surrogate fuel was proposed to approximate the complicated composition of real gasoline. In contrast to simpler conventional models, the fuel was modelled as a ternary mixture of three hydrocarbons: iso-octane, n-heptane and toluene. Turbulent flame propagation in a partially premixed field was modelled by a premixed flamelet model. The mass fractions of the detailed composition of species in burnt gas were predicted by a diffusion flamelet model. For the pollutant formation modelling, a two-step oxidation of CO and H₂ was used to simulate the secondary diffusion flame. The extended Zeldovich mechanism was used to model NOx formation, while a phenomenological model was used to model soot formation. This model was initially applied to a simple geometry to investigate the fundamentals of the model's behaviour, after which three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations were performed in a realistic engine geometry.     

Partially premixed flamelet in LES of acetone spray flames

An effective partially premixed flamelet model for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent spray combustion is formulated. Different flame regimes are identified with a flame index defined by budget terms in a 2-D multi-phase flamelet formulation, and the application in LES of partially pre-vaporized spray flames shows a favorable agreement with experiments. Simulations demonstrate that, compared to the conventional single-regime flamelets, the present partially premixed flamelet formulation shows its ability in capturing the subgrid regime transitions, yielding a well prediction of peak gas temperature and the downstream flame spreading. A propagating premixed flame front is found coupled with a trailing diffusion burning through the spray evaporation, and the spray effect on regime discrimination is manifested with transport budget analysis. A two-phase regime indicator is then proposed, by which the evaporation-dictated regime is properly described. Its intended use will rely on both gas and spray flamelet structures.     

A spray flamelet/progress variable approach combined with a transported joint PDF model for turbulent spray flames

A spray flamelet/progress variable approach is developed for use in spray combustion with partly pre-vaporised liquid fuel, where a laminar spray flamelet library accounts for evaporation within the laminar flame structures. For this purpose, the standard spray flamelet formulation for pure evaporating liquid fuel and oxidiser is extended by a chemical reaction progress variable in both the turbulent spray flame model and the laminar spray flame structures, in order to account for the effect of pre-vaporised liquid fuel for instance through use of a pilot flame. This new approach is combined with a transported joint probability density function (PDF) method for the simulation of a turbulent piloted ethanol/air spray flame, and the extension requires the formulation of a joint three-variate PDF depending on the gas phase mixture fraction, the chemical reaction progress variable, and gas enthalpy. The molecular mixing is modelled with the extended interaction-by-exchange-with-the-mean (IEM) model, where source terms account for spray evaporation and heat exchange due to evaporation as well as the chemical reaction rate for the chemical reaction progress variable. This is the first formulation using a spray flamelet model considering both evaporation and partly pre-vaporised liquid fuel within the laminar spray flamelets. Results with this new formulation show good agreement with the experimental data provided by A.R. Masri, Sydney, Australia. The analysis of the Lagrangian statistics of the gas temperature and the OH mass fraction indicates that partially premixed combustion prevails near the nozzle exit of the spray, whereas further downstream, the non-premixed flame is promoted towards the inner rich-side of the spray jet since the pilot flame heats up the premixed inner spray zone. In summary, the simulation with the new formulation considering the reaction progress variable shows good performance, greatly improving the standard formulation, and it provides new insight into the local structure of this complex spray flame.     

Modelling compression ignition engines by incorporation of the flamelet generated manifolds combustion closure

Tabulated chemistry models allow to include detailed chemistry effects at low cost in numerical simulations of reactive flows. Characteristics of the reactive fluid flows are described by a reduced set of parameters that are representative of the flame structure at small scales so-called flamelets. For a specific turbulent combustion configuration, flamelet combustion closure, with proper formulation of the flame structure can be applied. In this study, flamelet generated manifolds (FGM) combustion closure with progress variable approach were incorporated with OpenFOAM® source code to model combustion within compression ignition engines. For IC engine applications, multi-dimensional flamelet look-up tables for counter flow diffusive flame configuration were generated. Source terms of non-premixed combustion configuration in flamelet domain were tabulated based on pressure, temperature of unburned mixture, mixture fraction, and progress variable. A new frozen flamelet method was introduced to link one dimensional reaction diffusion space to multi-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) physical space to fulfill correct modelling of thermal state of the engine at expansion stroke when charge composition was changed after combustion and reaction rates were subsided. Predictability of the developed numerical framework were evaluated for Sandia Spray A (constant volume vessel), Spray B (light duty optical Diesel engine), and a heavy duty Diesel engine experiments under Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes turbulence formulation. Results showed that application of multi-dimensional FGM combustion closure can comprehensively predict key parameters such as: ignition delay, in-cylinder pressure, apparent heat release rate, flame lift-off , and flame structure in Diesel engines.     

An a priori study of different tabulation methods for turbulent pulverised coal combustion

In many practical pulverised coal combustion systems, different oxidiser streams exist, e.g. the primary- and secondary-air streams in the power plant boilers, which makes the modelling of these systems challenging. In this work, three tabulation methods for modelling pulverised coal combustion are evaluated through an a priori study. Pulverised coal flames stabilised in a three-dimensional turbulent counterflow, consisting of different oxidiser streams, are simulated with detailed chemistry first. Then, the thermo-chemical quantities calculated with different tabulation methods are compared to those from detailed chemistry solutions. The comparison shows that the conventional two-stream flamelet model with a fixed oxidiser temperature cannot predict the flame temperature correctly. The conventional two-stream flamelet model is then modified to set the oxidiser temperature equal to the fuel temperature, both of which are varied in the flamelets. By this means, the variations of oxidiser temperature can be considered. It is found that this modified tabulation method performs very well on prediction of the flame temperature. The third tabulation method is an extended three-stream flamelet model that was initially proposed for gaseous combustion. The results show that the reference gaseous temperature profile can be overall reproduced by the extended three-stream flamelet model. Interestingly, it is found that the predictions of major species mass fractions are not sensitive to the oxidiser temperature boundary conditions for the flamelet equations in the a priori analyses.