TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of multiscalar subfilter PDF models in les of turbulent flames with inhomogeneous inlets
AU - Perry, Bruce A.
AU - Mueller, Michael E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from NASA under grant NNX16AP90A . B.A.P. is thankful for support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant DGE1148900 . The authors also acknowledge valuable support in the form of computational time on the TIGRESS high performance computing center at Princeton University, which is supported by the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering and the Princeton Office of Information Technology.
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© 2018 The Combustion Institute.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - To apply reduced-order manifold combustion models in Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of systems with multiple inlets, it is necessary to incorporate more than one mixture fraction. As a result, the joint subfilter Probability Density Function (PDF) of the mixture fractions must be modeled. To determine the sensitivity of the predicted turbulent flame structure to these models, LES calculations of the Sydney piloted jet burner with inhomogeneous inlets have been performed using the Dirichlet, Connor-Mosimann (CM), and Beta-Delta (BD) distributions. A memory-efficient convolution-on-the-fly approach was applied to enable use of more complex subfilter PDF models, such as the CM distribution. Strong sensitivities in the LES predictions were observed to the choice of subfilter PDF model. The Dirichlet distribution was found to be ill-suited to this partially premixed turbulent flame because as a subfilter PDF model it implicitly assumes symmetric mixing in mixture fraction space, which is inconsistent with partial premixing. Good agreement with the experimental data was obtained using both the CM and BD distributions, which are mathematically consistent with partial premixing. The CM distribution is the most general of the considered distributions and gives the best predictions, but this comes with increased complexity and computational cost.
AB - To apply reduced-order manifold combustion models in Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of systems with multiple inlets, it is necessary to incorporate more than one mixture fraction. As a result, the joint subfilter Probability Density Function (PDF) of the mixture fractions must be modeled. To determine the sensitivity of the predicted turbulent flame structure to these models, LES calculations of the Sydney piloted jet burner with inhomogeneous inlets have been performed using the Dirichlet, Connor-Mosimann (CM), and Beta-Delta (BD) distributions. A memory-efficient convolution-on-the-fly approach was applied to enable use of more complex subfilter PDF models, such as the CM distribution. Strong sensitivities in the LES predictions were observed to the choice of subfilter PDF model. The Dirichlet distribution was found to be ill-suited to this partially premixed turbulent flame because as a subfilter PDF model it implicitly assumes symmetric mixing in mixture fraction space, which is inconsistent with partial premixing. Good agreement with the experimental data was obtained using both the CM and BD distributions, which are mathematically consistent with partial premixing. The CM distribution is the most general of the considered distributions and gives the best predictions, but this comes with increased complexity and computational cost.
KW - Inhomogeneous inlets
KW - Large Eddy simulation
KW - Presumed Probability Density Function
KW - Turbulent combustion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proci.2018.07.116
DO - 10.1016/j.proci.2018.07.116
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051981860
SN - 1540-7489
VL - 37
SP - 2287
EP - 2295
JO - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
JF - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
IS - 2
ER -