Effects of Body Forces on the Statistics of Flame Surface Density and Its Evolution in Statistically Planar Turbulent Premixed Flames

被引:10
作者
Varma, Arun Ravi [1 ]
Ahmed, Umair [1 ]
Chakraborty, Nilanjan [1 ]
机构
[1] Newcastle Univ, Sch Engn, Claremont Rd, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne & Wear, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
Turbulent premixed flames; Body force; Flame wrinkling; Flame surface density; Froude number; Direct numerical simulations; Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes simulations; TRANSPORT-EQUATION; STRAIN-RATE; BALANCE EQUATION; COMBUSTION; SIMULATION; CONTEXT; MODEL; LES;
D O I
10.1007/s10494-021-00268-9
中图分类号
O414.1 [热力学];
学科分类号
摘要
Body forces such as buoyancy and externally imposed pressure gradients are expected to have a strong influence on turbulent premixed combustion due to the considerable changes in density between the unburned and fully burned gases. The present work utilises Direct Numerical Simulation data of three-dimensional statistically planar turbulent premixed flames to study the influence of body forces on the statistical behaviour of the flame surface density (FSD) and its evolution within the flame brush. The analysis has been carried out for different turbulence intensities and normalised body force values (i.e., Froude numbers). A positive value of the body force signifies an unstable density stratification (i.e., body force is directed from the heavier unburned gas to the lighter burned gas) and vice versa. It is found that for a given set of turbulence parameters, flame wrinkling increases with an increase in body force magnitude in the unstable configuration. Furthermore, higher magnitudes of body force in the unstable density stratification configuration promote a gradient type transport of turbulent scalar and FSD fluxes, and this tendency weakens in the stable density stratification configuration where a counter-gradient type transport is promoted. The statistical behaviours of the different terms in the FSD transport equation and their closures in the context of Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes simulations have been analysed in detail. It has been demonstrated that the effects of body force on the FSD and the terms of its transport equation weakens with increasing turbulence intensity as a result of the diminishing relative strength of body force in comparison to the inertial force. The predictions of the existing models have been assessed with respect to the corresponding terms extracted from the explicitly averaged DNS data, and based on this evaluation, suitable modifications have been made to the existing models to incorporate the effects of body force (or Froude number).
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页码:181 / 212
页数:32
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