Large-Eddy Simulation of Lean Premixed Turbulent Flames of Three Different Combustion Configurations using a Novel Reaction Closure |
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Authors: | N K Aluri S Muppala F Dinkelacker |
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Institution: | 1.Institut für Fluid-und Thermodynamik,Universit?t Siegen,Siegen,Germany;2.Alstom Ltd.,Baden,Switzerland;3.Faculty of Engineering,Kingston University,Surrey,UK |
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Abstract: | This large eddy simulation (LES) study is applied to three different premixed turbulent flames under lean conditions at atmospheric
pressure. The hierarchy of complexity of these flames in ascending order are a simple Bunsen-like burner, a sudden-expansion
dump combustor, and a typical swirl-stabilized gas turbine burner–combustor. The purpose of this paper is to examine numerically
whether the chosen combination of the Smagorinsky turbulence model for sgs fluxes and a novel turbulent premixed reaction
closure is applicable over all the three combustion configurations with varied degree of flow and turbulence. A quality assessment
method for the LES calculations is applied. The cold flow data obtained with the Smagorinsky closure on the dump combustor
are in close proximity with the experiments. It moderately predicts the vortex breakdown and bubble shape, which control the
flame position on the double-cone burner. Here, the jet break-up at the root of the burner is premature and differs with the
experiments by as much as half the burner exit diameter, attributing the discrepancy to poor grid resolution. With the first
two combustion configurations, the applied subgrid reaction model is in good correspondence with the experiments. For the
third case, a complex swirl-stabilized burner–combustor configuration, although the flow field inside the burner is only modestly
numerically explored, the level of flame stabilization at the junction of the burner–combustor has been rather well captured.
Furthermore, the critical flame drift from the combustor into the burner was possible to capture in the LES context (which
was not possible with the RANS plus k–ɛ model), however, requiring tuning of a prefactor in the reaction closure. |
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Keywords: | Premixed combustion Reaction rate closure Large-eddy simulation Quality assessment |
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