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Flamelet Modeling of Turbulent Spray Diffusion Flame

Boxiong Chen 01/03/2013

Gaseous turbulent Diffusion Flame to Turbulent Spray Diffusion Flame


Turbulent combustion of liquid fuels is relevant to many industrial applications. The modeling of such applications requires good understanding of both physical and chemical processes in twophase system. Include:
The evolution of spray properties The heating and vaporization of the liquid Gas phase phenomena such as turbulence and chemical reaction

Gaseous turbulent Diffusion Flame to Turbulent Spray Diffusion Flame


The standard flamelet model for gaseous turbulent diffusion flame was developed. Scalars like temperature and Species are obtained by integrating counterflow solution with assumed or solved PDF. It was extended to turbulent spray diffusion flame (Hollmann and Gutheil, 1996). Liquid phase induces more mapping scalar.

Literatures of the Works


Hollmann and Gutheil, Modeling of Turbulent Spray Diffusion Flames including Detailed Chemistry
Spray heat and mass transfer were accounted for by including modeled terms in gaseous equations.

Gutheil and Sirignano, Counterflow Spray Combustion Modeling including Detailed Transport and Detailed Chemistry
Spray flamelet library was computed using detailed transport and detailed chemical mechanism with 23 species and 168 elementary reactions.

Hollmann and Gutheil, Flamelet modeling of turbulent Spray Diffusion Flames Based on a Laminar Spray Flame Library
Spray Laminar flamelet was incorporated, result was compared against experiment

Gutheil, Issues in Computational Studies of Turbulent Spray Combustion

Focus
The different structure of spray turbulent diffusion flame and gaseous counterpart Flamelet library Treatment in PDF

Structure of Spray Diffusion Flame

Configuration and Difference in Structure


A liquid monodisperse methanol spray enters from the left with carrier gas air, and it is directed against an air stream leading to a double flame where the left is a spray flame and the right is gas diffusion flame Multiple solutions are observed for low strain cases.
Quenched solution of gas diffusion flame can occur at low strain, which is counter-intuitive

Multiple solutions do not persist at higher strain rate because the reaction zones merge due to reduction of flame thickness (The two peak are compressed together)

Modeling
For turbulent spray flames, the approach must be extended to account for the dependence of the laminar spray flamelet on the initial droplet size, and initial spray velocity, and the equivalence ratio.

Solution for the Flamelet Library


In Gutheil and Sirignano 1998, monodisperse, single-component sprays are considered. Similarity transformation is applied to the gas and liquid properties, 1-D equations with boundary layer approximation are solved. The system of gas and liquid equations is strongly coupled, and the source terms due to chemical reactions make the system strongly nonlinear and stiff.

Modeling
The Favre averaged value of any variable in the turbulent flow field then depends on five variables, and it yields

PDF has to be modeled

Modeling of PDF
For the mixture fraction, a beta function or modified beta function is used. For the scalar dissipation rate at stoichio-metry, a logarithmic normal distrubution with standard deviation being used. For the initial droplet size, two Diracdelta functions were used, and the PDFs of both the initial droplet velocity and equivalence ratio were taken to be univariate Diracdelta functions with initial droplet velocity and global equivalence ratio The assumption of statistical independence

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