Combustion of ethanol-air mixtures in closed vessel - comparison of simulations with the use of RANS and LES method
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Numerical simulations of reacting and non-reacting flows within a scramjet combustor configuration experimentally mapped at the University of Virginia s Scramjet Combustion Facility (operating with Configuration A ) are described in this paper. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and hybrid Large Eddy Simulation / Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (LES / RANS) methods are utilized, with the intent of comparing essentially blind predictions with results from non-intrusive flow-field measurement methods including coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS), hydroxyl radical planar laser-induced fluorescence (OH-PLIF), stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV), wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS), and focusing Schlieren. NC State's REACTMB solver was used both for RANS and LES / RANS, along with a 9-species, 19- reaction H2-air kinetics mechanism by Jachimowski. Inviscid fluxes were evaluated using Edwards LDFSS flux-splitting scheme, and the Menter BSL turbulence model was utilized in both full-domain RANS simulations and as the unsteady RANS portion of the LES / RANS closure. Simulations were executed and compared with experiment at two equivalence ratios, PHI = 0.17 and PHI = 0.34. Results show that the PHI = 0.17 flame is hotter near the injector while the PHI = 0.34 flame is displaced further downstream in the combustor, though it is still anchored to the injector. Reactant mixing was predicted to be much better at the lower equivalence ratio. The LES / RANS model appears to predict lower overall heat release compared to RANS (at least for PHI = 0.17), and its capability to capture the direct effects of larger turbulent eddies leads to much better predictions of reactant mixing and combustion in the flame stabilization region downstream of the fuel injector. Numerical results from the LES/RANS model also show very good agreement with OH-PLIF and SPIV measurements. An un-damped long-wave oscillation of the pre-combustion shock train, which caused convergence problems in some RANS simulations, was also captured in LES / RANS simulations, which were able to accommodate its effects accurately.
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LES and RANS simulations of a Siemens scaled combustor are compared against comprehensive experimental data. The steady RANS simulation modeled one quarter of the geometry with 8M polyhedral cells using the SST-k-ω model. Unsteady LES simulations were performed on the quarter geometry (90°, 8M cells) as well as the full geometry (360°, 32M cells) using the WALE sub-grid model and dynamic evaluation of model coefficients. Aside from the turbulence model, all other models are identical for the RANS and LES. Combustion was modeled with the Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) model, which represents the thermo-chemistry by mixture fraction and reaction progress. RANS simulations are performed using Zimont and Peters turbulent flame speed (TFS) expressions with default model constants, as well as the kinetic rate from the FGM. The flame speed stalls near the wall with the TFS models, predicting a flame brush that extends to the combustor outlet, which is inconsistent with measurements. The FGM kinetic source model shows improved flame position predictions. The LES predictions of mean and rms axial velocity, mixture fraction and temperature do not show improvement over the RANS. All three simulations over-predict the turbulent mixing in the inner recirculation zone, causing flatter profiles than measurements. This over-mixing is exacerbated in the 900 case. The experiments show evidence of heat loss and the adiabatic simulations presented here might be improved by including wall heat-loss and radiation effects.
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The turbulent mixing of axisymmetric jet flows is investigated using large-eddy simulation (LES) and Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The flowfield of interest consists of a round jet and a surrounding, coaxial annular jet ejected into a quiescent free stream. This flow situation arises, for example, in the flow of hydrogen and oxygen in rocket combustion systems. In such cases, the jets have significantly different densities, which has been found experimentally to strongly influence the downstream turbulent mixing dynamics. The goal of the present study is to evaluate the capacity of the LES and RANS methodologies to accurately predict jet mixing without the complicating effects of combustion. Simulations were performed for test cases matching an experimental study that has been documented in the open literature. Both air-air and hydrogen-air jet combinations were investigated, yielding density ratios ranging from 1.46 to 0.08. The LES and RANS results were compared to one another and to experimental measurements in terms of centerline decay and radial distribution of mean velocity and concentration. The results highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the two computational approaches for this class of problems.
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A channel flow with a high Reynolds number but coarse grids is numerically studied to investigate the prediction possibility of its turbulence which is three-dimensional and time-dependent. In the present paper, a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model, a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and a Navier-Stokes equation with no model are tested with a new approach of hybrid RANS/LES, which reduces to RANS model in the boundary layers and at separation, and to Smagorinsky-like LES downstream of separation, and then compared with each other. It is found that the simulations of hybrid RANS/LES method sustain turbulence like those of LES and with no model, and the results are stable and fairly accurate. This indicates strongly that gradual improvements could lead to a simple, stable, and accurate approach to predict turbulence phenomena of wall-bounded flow.
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Large-Eddy simulation (LES) has become an important tool in computational fluid mechanics but still is far from replacing Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approaches. The present work compares combustion models for LES and RANS derived from the same physical assumptions. Thus a direct comparison of results from both approaches for a combusting flow becomes possible. The models are based on the assumption of a fractal shape of the flame surface, leading to the Lindstedt-Vaos model in RANS. Its generalization to LES is presented here. Both RANS and LES models are validated with data from a turbulent Bunsen flame to evaluate their sensitivity to turbulence level and length scale. The predicted turbulent burning velocity shows a very similar behavior in both models. The models are also tested with a second validation configuration, the combusting flow over a backward-facing step. This flow clearly shows the different behavior of RANS and LES methods in unsteady flows containing large coherent turbulent structures.
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In this work, simulations of a strongly swirled premixed flame at atmospheric pressure were carried out using classical RANS-methods as well as different hybrid RANS/LES approaches. In the context of RANS, a large number of simulations using the k-ε-model were performed to study the impact of sensitivities related to boundary conditions and model parameters. For the transient simulations, the hybrid methods, DES (Detached Eddy Simulation) and SAS (Scale Adaptive Simulation) as implemented in ANSYS-CFX, were employed. These methods were used to avoid the prohibitive computational cost of LES in boundary layers but to resolve the detached eddies to capture the flame turbulence interaction. Combustion modeling in CFX is based on a transport equation for the progress variable combined with a turbulent flame speed closure to treat the chemical source term. In addition, isothermal LES was performed in advance to identify the coherent structures, such as precessing vortex cores, which were observed experimentally.
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Turbulent swirling flows and methane-air swirling diffusion combustion are simulated by both large-eddy simulation (LES) using a Smagorinsky-Lilly subgrid-scale (SGS) turbulence model, a second-order moment (SOM) subgrid-scale combustion model and an eddy break up (EBU) combustion model and Reynolds-averaged NavierStokes (RANS) modeling using the Reynolds stress equation model and a second-order moment (SOM) combustion model. For swirling flows, the LES statistical results give better agreement with the experimental results than the RANS modeling, indicating that the adopted subgrid-scale turbulence model is suitable for swirling flows. For swirling combustion, both the proposed SOM SGS combustion model and the RANS-SOM model give the results in good agreement with the experimental results, but the LES-EBU modeling results are not in agreement with the experimental results.
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큰 에디 모사(LES)는 복잡한 연소실 유동에서 RANS 모델과 비교해 난류 유동장에 대해 모델의 보편성과 더 정확한 결과를 제공하기 때문에 점차적으로 사용이 증대되고 있다. 내연 기관의 연소실 내 난류 유동장 해석을 큰 에디 모사를 사용하여 수행하였다. 이산화 방식, 초기 조건, 시간 간격과 SGS 모델과 같은 모델과 수치 인자에 따른 영향을 평가하였다. SGS 모델을 사용한 LES 모사는 실험치와 유사한 결과를 보여주었다. Large eddy simulation (LES) is increasingly used as a tool for studying the dynamics of turbulence in combustion chamber flows due to the promise of wider generality and more accurate results compared to Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) models. This study presents the appropriate subgrid-scale(SGS) model in LES for predicting the turbulent flow field in the internal combustion engine. The study of the effects of model and numerical parameters such as discretization scheme, initial condition, time step and SGS model was performed. The results of LES using the SGS model were found to be in the good agreement with experimental data.
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