CO Prediction in LES of Turbulent Flames With Additional Modeling of the Chemical Source Term

The prediction of combustion processes using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) combined with tabulated chemistry has proven to be very successful and become very popular during the last years in both academia and industry. Technical combustion systems feature a wide range of time and length scales which need to be resolved. The LES describes the rather slow, but turbulent and unsteady flow field very well, while the fast chemical reactions can be represented by tabulated chemistry models like Flamelet Generated Manifolds. Pollutants, being only present at lower concentrations and developing slowly are not easy to capture with the standard manifold defined by the fast major combustion products. Therefore, additional modeling in order to predict the carbon monoxide emissions is presented in this paper. The choice of the reaction progress variable and the solution of an additional transport equation with and without extra modeling for the post flame zone was investigated. These models are applied to a standard test case and compared to experimental data and the standard tabulation approach.Copyright © 2012 by ASME