A comparison of different approaches to integrate flamelet tables with presumed-shape PDF in flamelet models for turbulent flames

Flamelet models for turbulent combustion modelling make use of presumed-shape probability density functions (PDFs) for integrating laminar flamelet solutions to obtain an integrated flamelet table that can readily be used for turbulent flame calculations. The existence of non-unique approaches for such an integration has rarely been investigated before. For the first time, this work studies systematically the non-uniqueness of the flamelet table integration approaches. A flamelet model called the flamelet/progress variable model is used in the study, although the issue exists generally in many other flamelet models. Two classes of table integration approaches are investigated, one preserving the laminar flamelet structures during integration and the other not. Three different table integration approaches are examined and compared in detail to provide a thorough understanding of the different approaches. A partially stirred reactor is used as a test case for examining the different approaches. A method based on the transported PDF method is also employed to provide a reference for the assessment of the different flamelet table integration approaches. It is found in general that the flamelet preserving integration approach yields a more reasonable joint PDF of the mixture fraction and the progress variable, and the prediction results are closer to the referenced transported PDF results.     

鲁棒PDF控制策略在永磁同步电机系统中的设计及仿真

对电机控制系统的经典反馈设计方案是建立在简化的受控对象模型基础之上,而实际模型参数的变化会引起控制系统性能的改变。本文针对实际应用的永磁同步电机,为了保证电机控制系统的强鲁棒性,通过对其系统灵敏度的理论推导,给出了一种新的控制器参数设计方法。该设计方法以系统灵敏度为评价指标来度量系统的鲁棒性,结合应用于二阶控制对象的伪微分反馈控制器结构,来削弱控制对象参数值的改变对控制系统性能的影响。并建立了精确的永磁同步电机仿真模型,将该方法应用于其速度控制。仿真结果表明在该控制方案下,在永磁同步电机的转动惯量和定子电阻值变化时具有较小超调量变化(小于4%)的响应特性。同时与普通PID控制对比分析,验证了用该方案设计的PMSM调速系统具有较高的抗参数变化的鲁棒性。     

Flow Structure of Lifted Swirling Jet Flames

Swirling combustion is widely applied in various applications such as gas turbines, utility boilersor waste incinerators. This article contributes to the ongoing research by providing experimentaldata that are gathered in the mixing zone of a lifted swirling premixed natural gas flame. Theobjective of this paper is fivefold: (1) to introduce the lifted swirling flame featuring lowNO _x emissions (2) to provide experimental data such as major species distributions, temperature and streamlines of the flow pattern, (3) to report on velocity bias in probability density function (PDF) distributions and to present PDF sequences of velocities in medium scale swirling flows, (4) to make an assessment on the local small-scale turbulence that is present in the swirling mixinglayer and (5) to provide new experimental data for model verification and development.The PDFs are corrected in order to compensate for the velocity bias phenomenon, which is typicalfor randomly sampled LDA data. Sequences of axial PDF data are presented and measurement locationsof interest are selected to look at the PDF characteristics of the internal and externalrecirculation zones, the mixing layer and the onset of the reacting flow into detail. The mixinglayer PDFs covered a wide velocity range and revealed bimodality; even the concept ofmulti-modality is suggested and explored. Analysis showed that a sum of two Gaussian distributionscan accurately envelop the experimental PDFs. The reason for this broadband turbulence behavior isto be found in combination of precessing and flapping motion of the flow structures, and also incombustion generated instabilities of the lifted flame. As a result, the flame brush is wide (largescale motion) and the mixing (small-scale turbulence) flattens any high temperatures in thecombustion process.The multi-scale turbulence concept is subsequently used to make anassessment of the local turbulence characteristics in the mixing layer.The idea is that the PDFs capture both contributions of the flow-inherent fine grain turbulence (u _l ) which is superposed on slowlarge scale fluctuating structures. It is this u _l that will be of interest in continued research on the classification of the lifted flame into acombustion regime diagram (e.g. Borghi diagram). Finally, the bimodalitycharacter in reacting flows and the prediction of large-scale structuresmay be a challenge for LES researchers.     

钝体后湍流预混燃烧的PDF模拟

本文采用PDF方法对矩形燃烧室内钝体后的湍流预混火焰进行了数值模拟。脉动速度-频率-标量联合的PDF输运方程用Monte Carlo方法求解,质量、动量和能量的平均值由基于无结构网格的有限体积法求解,压力通过状态方程获得。PDF方程中所需的平均密度、平均速度和压力由有限体积法提供,并将用Monte Carlo方法求出的雷诺应力、化学反应源项和比热比传递给有限体积法。本文对丙烷和空气燃烧的不同简化化学反应机理进行了研究,并与实验结果进行比较,获得满意的结果。     

FV/MC混合算法求解轴对称钝体后湍流流场

介绍一种有限容积／Monte Carlo结合求解湍流流场的相容的混合算法．有限容积法求解Reynolds平均的动量方程和能量方程，Monte Carlo方法求解模化的脉动速度—频率—标量联合的PDF方程．将该算法发展到无结构网格，探讨了在无结构网格中实现两种方法的耦合，包括颗粒定位，颗粒场和平均场之间数据交换等问题．并以二维轴对称钝体后湍流流场作为算例，比较了计算结果与实验结果．     

惯性颗粒所见被动标量统计特性的DNS与模型研究

本文采用DNS方法,对惯性颗粒所见各向同性湍流中具有平均标量梯度的被动标量场统计特性进行了研究。结果表明：惯性对颗粒温度脉动强度,两相温度关联,自相关特性以及颗粒热流与两相交叉热流的统计特性具有明显的影响。在PDF方法的框架下,系统地推导了非等温气固两相流的PDF方程,且基于朗之万随机体系对方程进行了封闭,并利用前面的...     

应用PDF方法对甲烷射流火焰组分浓度分布的数值研究

本文用k-ε模型和PDF方程相结合的方法对甲烷湍流射流扩散火焰进行了求解，发现Peters等提出的四步反应模型在径向分布预示性能不好，本文对甲烷射流扩散火焰的实际工况进行了分析，提出反应模型的改进方案。改进后的模型所给出的组分浓度分布比原四步反应模型更符合实验结果。验证了修正模型所依据的思想．     

Impact of Turbulent Flow and Mean Mixture Fraction Results on Mixing Model Behavior in Transported Scalar PDF Simulations of Turbulent Non-premixed Bluff Body Flames

Numerical simulation results are presented for three turbulent jet diffusion flames, stabilized behind a bluff body (Sydney Flames HM1-3). Interaction between turbulence and combustion is modeled with the transported joint-scalar PDF approach. The focus of the study is on the impact of the quality of simulation results in physical space on the behavior of two micro-mixing models in composition space: the Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (‘EMST’) model and the modified Curl coalescence dispersion (‘CD’) model. Profiles of conditional means and variances of thermo-chemical quantities, conditioned on the mixture fraction, are discussed in the recirculation region and in the neck zone behind. The impact of the flow and mixing fields in physical space on the mixing model behavior in composition space is strong for the CD model and increases as the turbulence – chemistry interaction becomes stronger. The EMST conditional profiles, on the contrary, are hardly affected.     

A Field Monte Carlo Formulation for Calculating the Probability Density Function of a Single Scalar in a Turbulent Flow

The probability density function (PDF) formulation of one scalar field undergoing diffusion, turbulent convection and chemical reaction is restated in terms of stochastic fields. These fields are smooth in space as they have a length scale similar to that of the PDF. Their evolution is described by a set of stochastic partial differential equations, which are solved using a finite volume scheme with a stochastic source term. The application of this methodology to a particular flow is shown first for a linear source term, with exact analytical solution for the mean and standard deviation, and then for a nonlinear reaction.