旋流燃烧室内颗粒运动的数值模拟

本文应用流体相湍流脉动速度大小和方向均具有随机性的颗粒相随机轨道模型,对有直流一次风和旋流二次风的旋流燃烧室内的颗粒运动进行了数值模拟。得到的颗粒相轴向总质量流通量、轴向与切向速度分布与实验测量数据相符合,并比 Gosman 颗粒随机轨道模型的模拟结果有一定的改进。     

旋流煤粉燃烧的一维综合数值模拟

发展了综合考虑气－固两相旋流流动，气相燃烧，颗粒相变与燃烧及两相辐射传热的旋流煤粉燃烧－维数学模型，给出了气－固两相能量方程中颗粒相就源项的计算表达式，应用这一模型对涡旋燃烧炉环形通道内多组工况的旋流气体燃烧和煤粉燃烧进行了数值模拟，计算得到的炉内温度分布和燃烧效率与实验数据基本相符，表明本文建立的模型可用于旋流煤粉燃烧的一维综合数值模拟。     

燃烧室出口辐射对气膜冷却传热影响研究

燃气轮机高温透平中包含对流/导热/辐射等复杂传热现象。本文依托高温流热固耦合实验台,提出燃烧室与透平联合计算的方法,采用数值模拟和实验对比的方式分析了平板气膜冷却的对流/导热/辐射传热特性。同时研究了不同燃气吸收系数以及不同进口辐射条件对于平板气膜冷却的表面温度分布的影响。结果表明:辐射传热是燃气轮机首级高温叶片传热特性的重要影响因素,辐射传热使得实验平板温度抬升50～70 K,燃烧室/透平联合计算方法有效地分析了燃烧室出口辐射强度对高温平板气膜冷却辐射传热的影响;高温燃气辐射特性对于平板温度分布具有明显影响。     

基于持续同调的边坡土颗粒应力链失稳分析

采用颗粒离散元方法和持续同调理论,研究了内排土场堆叠至不同高度时的边坡稳定性。为便于研究,现采用一水平金属板向下施加压力,代替不同厚度土层的重力荷载,对边坡在竖向荷载作用下的失稳破坏过程进行了颗粒离散元模拟。研究了二维边坡土颗粒速度总矢量、边坡失稳破坏时滑移开裂面的角度以及边坡坡顶y方向的平均速度等宏观响应过程,并构建了自然堆积下边坡堆积体颗粒的法向力链无向网络模型。最后,用持续同调方法对边坡坡顶颗粒接触力链网络的拓扑特征进行分析,获得条码图,建立了岩体结构持续同调特征与失稳演化的关系。本文为研究边坡失稳拓扑识别提供了一种新方法,从而可以有效预测边坡的失稳破坏。     

Swirl effects on variable-density jet mixing in confined flows

An experimental investigation on swirl effects on inhomogeneous confined jet mixing in a combustor configuration is reported. The confined swirling flow was simulated by a swirler with a central jet mounted in a cyclindrical tube. Helium and air jets set at different velocities were injected into the confined swirling air flow. The resulting flow fields due to two vane swirlers with constant vane angles of 35° and 66° were compared. Results show that the 35° vane swirler produces a solid-body rotation core with a slope about twice that created by the 66° vane swirler. It is the behavior of this solid-body rotation core that determines jet mixing rather than the swirler vane angle. Consequently, the coaxial jet decays much faster, the mixing is more intense, and the turbulence intensities are higher for the 35° vane swirler. In view of these results, combustor designers should be more concerned with behavior of the solid-body rotation core produced by the swirler, instead of the swirler vane angle.     

Experimental Study on Stabilization of Lifted Swirl Flames in a Model GT Combustor

This study reports on experimental investigations on isothermal and reacting swirled non-premixed flows under varying pressure conditions. In this configuration, a central high speed fuel jet was surrounded by a heated swirling air flow. For the reacting case natural gas served as fuel whereas for isothermal conditions fuel was replaced by a mixture of helium and air to achieve Reynolds-similarity. The optically accessible combustor allowed for application of laser diagnostics. Here we report on Laser Doppler Anemometry and planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) experiments used to characterize the flow field and visualize selected scalars, respectively. Acetone served as a fluorescence marker for mixture fraction investigations. The hydroxyl radical was used to provide general features of the reaction zone such as flame shape and mean stabilization. To expose the influence of pressure on the flame structure three different operating points were investigated varying the combustor pressure between 2 and 6 bar while the inflow bulk velocities remained the same. Striking features of the present configuration are a detached flame, multiple recirculation zones, and complex coherent flow structures.     

Analysis of Unsteady Motion with Respect to Noise Sources in a Gas Turbine Combustor: Isothermal Flow Case

In order to evaluate the direct and indirect contributions to the total combustion noise emission, a combustion chamber consisting of a swirl burner and an exit nozzle of Laval-shape, representing a gas turbine combustor, is investigated by means of experiments and large eddy simulation. Focused on the isothermal flow case first and encouraged by a good overall agreement between the LES and the experimental data for the flow field, a first characterisation of the flow with respect to noise sources is performed. To analyse acoustic properties of the flow, time and length scales are evaluated inside the combustor. Furthermore, the evidence for the existence of a precessing vortex core (PVC), typical for configurations with swirl, is revealed. Finally, the effect of the PVC on the flow inside the Laval nozzle is discussed.     

On the effect of the nozzle design on the performances of gas–liquid cylindrical cyclone separators

This paper constitutes an experimental study of the separation performances of a gas–liquid cylindrical cyclone (GLCC) separator that interests the oil industry. The global hydrodynamics behavior in the GLCC is characterized by flow visualization under various inflow operating conditions. The effect of the inlet nozzle design on the performances of the separator is studied by using three different nozzles, and it proves to be a key parameter. With an insufficient nozzle restriction, low swirl intensity is imparted to the flow. Due to inadequate centrifugal effects, liquid is prematurely carried over by the gas as flooding occurs in the separator upper part. High amounts of gas are also carried under by the liquid stream. On the other hand, with a too severe nozzle convergence, the important drag applied by the gas leads to liquid “short circuiting” the cyclone toward the gas outlet. In addition to the nozzle design, the separator performances are influenced by phenomena such as liquid bridging or the occurrence of the slug flow regime at the cyclone inlet. This paper leads to a better understanding of the links between the hydrodynamics in the GLCC and its operational limits, which is necessary to enable reliable scaling up tools.     

双侧进气突扩燃烧室内液雾燃烧的数值模拟

本文采用全双流体模型对部分切向进气管式双侧进气突扩燃烧室内的液雾燃烧过程进行了数值模拟，将液雾群按初始尺寸分组，数值模拟结果表明不同尺寸液雾的蒸发及燃烧过程显著不同，小尺寸的液雾是先蒸发后燃烧，而较大尺寸的液雾则是边蒸发边燃烧．模拟结果还表明，部分切向进气方式有利于在燃烧室的头部产生大面积的中心回流区，该回流区的存在有利于加强混合及火焰稳定．