A joint SSPDF–CMC method for simulating turbulent methane–air jet combustion |
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Authors: | Chun Zou Chuguang Zheng Lixing Zhou |
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Institution: | aNational Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;bDepartment of Engineering Mechanics and State Key Laboratory of Clean Coal Combustion, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China |
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Abstract: | A joint single scalar probability density function and conditional moment closure (SSPDF–CMC) method is proposed for modeling a turbulent methane–air jet flame. In general, the probability density function (PDF) of passive scalar (such as mixture fraction) is non-Gaussian and not fully determined by the advecting velocity field, therefore the presumed shape of PDF of mixture fraction assumed as clipped Gaussian distribution or beta function in normal conditional moment closure (CMC) method is incorrect. In SSPDF–CMC method, the PDF of mixture fraction is obtained using a Monte-Carlo method to solve a PDF transport equation. An assumption that the averaged scalar advection is approximately equal to the averaged scalar dissipation in the wake of a grid-generated turbulence flow is adopted to model the averaged scalar dissipation. The predictions using the proposed method are compared with those using the conventional CMC method and the experimental data. It is seen that the predicted Favre conditional averaged statistics and Favre unconditional averaged statistics using the proposed method are in better agreement with the measurement data than those using the conventional CMC method. The predicted conditional or unconditional mean NO even using the SSPDF model is only in fair agreement with the experiments. It shows that the first-order closure for the conditional reaction rate of NO should be improved. |
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Keywords: | PACS: 47 27 Eq 47 11 +j 47 70 FwTurbulence modeling Turbulent combustion Computational fluid dynamics |
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