Download or read book Numerical Simulations of Gas Turbine Combustor Flows written by D. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Diluted Spray Turbulent Combustion written by Bart Merci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the outcome of the 1st International Workshop on Turbulent Spray Combustion held in 2009 in Corsica (France). The focus is on reporting the progress of experimental and numerical techniques in two-phase flows, with emphasis on spray combustion. The motivation for studies in this area is that knowledge of the dominant phenomena and their interactions in such flow systems is essential for the development of predictive models and their use in combustor and gas turbine design. This necessitates the development of accurate experimental methods and numerical modelling techniques. The workshop aimed at providing an opportunity for experts and young researchers to present the state-of-the-art, discuss new developments or techniques and exchange ideas in the areas of experimentations, modelling and simulation of reactive multiphase flows. The first two papers reflect the contents of the invited lectures, given by experts in the field of turbulent spray combustion. The first concerns computational issues, while the second deals with experiments. These lectures initiated very interesting and interactive discussions among the researchers, further pursued in contributed poster presentations. Contributions 3 and 4 focus on some aspects of the impact of the interaction between fuel evaporation and combustion on spray combustion in the context of gas turbines, while the final article deals with the interaction between evaporation and turbulence.
Download or read book Flow and Combustion in Advanced Gas Turbine Combustors written by Johannes Janicka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With regard to both the environmental sustainability and operating efficiency demands, modern combustion research has to face two main objectives, the optimization of combustion efficiency and the reduction of pollutants. This book reports on the combustion research activities carried out within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 568 “Flow and Combustion in Future Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This aimed at designing a completely integrated modeling and numerical simulation of the occurring very complex, coupled and interacting physico-chemical processes, such as turbulent heat and mass transport, single or multi-phase flows phenomena, chemical reactions/combustion and radiation, able to support the development of advanced gas turbine chamber concepts
Download or read book Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Combustors with Applications written by Grant Douglas Swenson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numerical Simulation of a Low Emissions Gas Turbine Combustor Using KIVA 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion of Diluted Sprays written by Bart Merci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the results of the 2nd and 3rd International Workshops on Turbulent Spray Combustion. The focus is on progress in experiments and numerical simulations for two-phase flows, with emphasis on spray combustion. Knowledge of the dominant phenomena and their interactions allows development of predictive models and their use in combustor and gas turbine design. Experts and young researchers present the state-of-the-art results, report on the latest developments and exchange ideas in the areas of experiments, modelling and simulation of reactive multiphase flows. The first chapter reflects on flame structure, auto-ignition and atomization with reference to well-characterized burners, to be implemented by modellers with relative ease. The second chapter presents an overview of first simulation results on target test cases, developed at the occasion of the 1st International Workshop on Turbulent Spray Combustion. In the third chapter, evaporation rate modelling aspects are covered, while the fourth chapter deals with evaporation effects in the context of flamelet models. In chapter five, LES simulation results are discussed for variable fuel and mass loading. The final chapter discusses PDF modelling of turbulent spray combustion. In short, the contributions in this book are highly valuable for the research community in this field, providing in-depth insight into some of the many aspects of dilute turbulent spray combustion.
Download or read book Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Combustion written by Santanu De and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art models for turbulent combustion, with special emphasis on the theory, development and applications of combustion models in practical combustion systems. It simplifies the complex multi-scale and nonlinear interaction between chemistry and turbulence to allow a broader audience to understand the modeling and numerical simulations of turbulent combustion, which remains at the forefront of research due to its industrial relevance. Further, the book provides a holistic view by covering a diverse range of basic and advanced topics—from the fundamentals of turbulence–chemistry interactions, role of high-performance computing in combustion simulations, and optimization and reduction techniques for chemical kinetics, to state-of-the-art modeling strategies for turbulent premixed and nonpremixed combustion and their applications in engineering contexts.
Download or read book Coarse Grained Simulation and Turbulent Mixing written by Fenando F. Grinstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews our current understanding of the subject. For graduate students and researchers in computational fluid dynamics and turbulence.
Download or read book Combustion Noise written by Anna Schwarz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November, 2008 Anna Schwarz, Johannes Janicka In the last thirty years noise emission has developed into a topic of increasing importance to society and economy. In ?elds such as air, road and rail traf?c, the control of noise emissions and development of associated noise-reduction techno- gies is a central requirement for social acceptance and economical competitiveness. The noise emission of combustion systems is a major part of the task of noise - duction. The following aspects motivate research: • Modern combustion chambers in technical combustion systems with low pol- tion exhausts are 5 - 8 dB louder compared to their predecessors. In the ope- tional state the noise pressure levels achieved can even be 10-15 dB louder. • High capacity torches in the chemical industry are usually placed at ground level because of the reasons of noise emissions instead of being placed at a height suitable for safety and security. • For airplanes the combustion emissions become a more and more important topic. The combustion instability and noise issues are one major obstacle for the introduction of green technologies as lean fuel combustion and premixed burners in aero-engines. The direct and indirect contribution of combustion noise to the overall core noise is still under discussion. However, it is clear that the core noise besides the fan tone will become an important noise source in future aero-engine designs. To further reduce the jet noise, geared ultra high bypass ratio fans are driven by only a few highly loaded turbine stages.
Download or read book Numerical Modeling of Flows Related to Gas Turbine Combustors written by Róbert Zoltán Szász and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simulations of Gas Turbine Combustor Flows Using the Node based PDF Transport Method written by S. James and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flashback Mechanisms in Lean Premixed Gas Turbine Combustion written by Ali Cemal Benim and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fuels with hydrogen offers the potential to reduce NOx and CO2 emissions in gas turbines, but doing so introduces potential new problems such as flashback. Flashback can lead to thermal overload and destruction of hardware in the turbine engine, with potentially expensive consequences. The little research on flashback that is available is fragmented. Flashback Mechanisms in Lean Premixed Gas Turbine Combustion by Ali Cemal Benim will address not only the overall issue of the flashback phenomenon, but also the issue of fragmented and incomplete research. - Presents a coherent review of flame flashback (a classic problem in premixed combustion) and its connection with the growing trend of popularity of more-efficient hydrogen-blend fuels - Begins with a brief review of industrial gas turbine combustion technology - Covers current environmental and economic motivations for replacing natural gas with hydrogen-blend fuels
Download or read book Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion written by Andrei Lipatnikov and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbulent burning of gaseous fuels is widely used for energy conversion in stationary power generation, e.g., gas turbines, land transportation, piston engines, and aviation, and aero-engine afterburners. Nevertheless, our fundamental understanding of turbulent combustion is still limited, because it is a highly non-linear and multiscale process that involves various local phenomena and thousands (e.g., for gasoline-air mixtures) of chemical reactions between hundreds of species, including several reactions that control emissions from flames. Therefore, there is a strong need for elaborating high fidelity, advanced numerical models, and methods that will catch the governing physical mechanisms of flame-turbulence interaction and, consequently, will make turbulent combustion computations an efficient predictive tool for applied research and, in particular, for development of a new generation of ultra-clean and highly efficient internal combustion engines that will allow society to properly respond to current environmental and efficiency challenges. Accordingly, papers published in this Special Issue (i) contribute to our fundamental understanding of flame-turbulence interaction by analyzing results of unsteady multi-dimensional numerical simulations and (ii) develop and validate high-fidelity models and efficient numerical methods for computational fluid Dynamics research into turbulent combustion in laboratory burners and engines.
Download or read book Numerical Simulation of a Low Emissions Gas Turbine Combustor Using KIVA II written by S. L. Yang and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Large Eddy Simulation of Gas Turbine Combustors Using Flamelet Manifold Methods written by Christopher Fernandez Lietz and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this work was to develop a large-eddy simulation (LES) based computational tool for application to both premixed and non- premixed combustion of low-Mach number flows in gas turbines. In the recent past, LES methodology has emerged as a viable tool for modeling turbulent combustion. LES is particularly well-suited for the compu- tation of large scale mixing, which provides a firm starting point for the small scale models which describe the reaction processes. Even models developed in the context of Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) exhibit superior results in the LES framework. Although LES is a widespread topic of research, in industrial applications it is often seen as a less attractive option than RANS, which is computationally inexpensive and often returns sufficiently accurate results. However, there are many commonly encountered problems for which RANS is unsuitable. This work is geared towards such instances, with a solver developed for use in unsteady reacting flows on unstructured grids. The work is divided into two sections. First, a robust CFD solver for a generalized incompressible, reacting flow configuration is developed. The computational algorithm, which com- bines elements of the low-Mach number approximation and pressure projection methods with other techniques, is described. Coupled to the flow solver is a combustion model based on the flamelet progress variable approach (FPVA), adapted to current applications. Modifications which promote stability and accuracy in the context of unstructured meshes are also implemented. Second, the LES methodology is used to study three specific problems. The first is a channel geometry with a lean premixed hydrogen mixture, in which the unsteady flashback phenomenon is induced. DNS run in tandem is used for establishing the validity of the LES. The second problem is a swirling gas turbine combustor, which extends the channel flashback study to a more practical application with stratified premixed methane and hydrogen/methane mixtures. Experimental results are used for comparison. Finally, the third problem tests the solver's abilities further, using a more complex fuel JP-8, Lagrangian fuel droplets, and a complicated geometry. In this last configu- ration, experimental results validate early simulations while later simulations examine the physics of reacting sprays under high centripetal loading.
Download or read book Numerical Simulations of Stationary and Transient Spray Combustion for Aircraft Gas Turbine Applications written by Athanase Alain Fossi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of current and future aero gas turbine engines is mainly focused on the safety, the performance, the energy consumption, and increasingly on the reduction of pollutants and noise level. To this end, the engine's design phases are subjected to improving processes continuously through experimental and numerical investigations. The present thesis is concerned with the simulation of transient and steady combustion regimes in an aircraft gas turbine operating under various combustion modes. Particular attention is paid to the accuracy of the results, the computational cost, and the ease of handling the numerical tool from an industrial standpoint. Thus, a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code widely used in industry is selected as the numerical tool. A CFD methodology consisting of its advanced turbulence and combustion models, coupled with a subgrid spark-based ignition model, is formulated with the final goal of predicting the whole ignition sequence under cold start and altitude relight conditions, and the main flame trends in the steady combustion regime. At first, attention is focused on the steady combustion regime. Various CFD methodologies are formulated using three turbulence models, namely, the Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS), the Scale-Adaptive Simulation (SAS), and the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models. To appraise the relevance of incorporating a realistic chemistry model and chemical non-equilibrium effects, two different assumptions are considered, namely, the infinitely-fast chemistry through the partial equilibrium model, and the finite-rate chemistry through the diffusion flamelet model. For each of the two assumptions, both one-component and two-component fuels are considered as surrogates for kerosene (Jet A-1). The resulting CFD models are applied to a swirl-stabilized combustion chamber to assess their ability to retrieve the spray flow and combustion properties in the steady combustion regime. Subsequently, the ratios between the accuracy of the results and the computational cost of the three CFD methodologies are explicitly compared. The second intermediate study is devoted to the ignition sequence preceding the steady combustion regime. A bluff-body stabilized burner based on gaseous fuel, and employing a spark-based igniter, is considered to calibrate the CFD model formulated. This burner of relatively simple geometry can provide greater understanding of complex reactive flow features, especially with regard to ignitability and stability. The most robust of the CFD methodologies formulated in the previous configuration is reconsidered. As this burner involves a partially-premixed combustion mode, a combustion model based on the mixture fraction-progress variable formulation is adopted with the assumptions of infinitely-fast chemistry and finite-rate chemistry through the Bray-Moss-Libby (BML) and Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) models, respectively. The ignition model is first customized by implementing the properties of the flame considered. Thereafter, the customized ignition model is coupled to the LES solver and combustion models based on the two above-listed assumptions. To assess the predictive capabilities of the resulting CFD methodologies, the latter are used to predict ignition events resulting from the spark deposition at various locations of the burner, and the results are quantitatively and qualitatively validated by comparing the latter to their experimental counterparts. Finally, the CFD methodology validated in the gaseous configuration is extended to spray combustion by first coupling the latter to the spray module, and by implementing the flame properties of kerosene in the ignition model. The resulting CFD model is first applied to the swirl-stabilized combustor investigated previously, with the aim of predicting the whole ignition sequence and improving the previous predictions of the combustion properties in the resulting steady regime. Subsequently, the CFD methodology is applied to a scaled can combustor with the aim of predicting ignition events under cold start and altitude relight operating conditions. The ability of the CFD methodology to predict ignition events under the two operating conditions is assessed by contrasting the numerical predictions to the corresponding experimental ignition envelopes. A qualitative validation of the ignition sequence is also done by comparing the numerical ignition sequence to the high-speed camera images of the corresponding ignition event.
Download or read book Numerical Simulation of a Three Zone Combustor for a Gas Turbine written by Jia Guo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
