TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of a MILD combustion burner using ILDM chemistry
AU - Hoxha, Artan
AU - Bedii Eözdemir, I.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A numerical study was performed to accommodate mathematical simplification of kinetics and non-premixed reactants in three-dimensional computations. Specifically, the ILDM technique was combined with the presumed probability density function approach to simulate turbulent combustion in a burner operating at MILD combustion, which was characterised by relatively uniform temperatures with no visible flame and sound. An Eulerian solution strategy was implemented in a CFD code on a structured mesh. Predictions of the mean flow field, turbulence kinetic energy, mixture fraction and its variance, temperature, and mass fraction of CO2 and H2O were presented. It is found that the flow near the burner exhibited strong anisotropy and, thus, k - ε turbulence model has over predicted the spread of the jets. Nevertheless, the calculated mean velocities and temperatures reproduce experimental data reasonably well. The mixing mechanism in the near field of the burner was fully described with remarks on the entrainment of flue gas. Low levels of turbulence in the lifted reaction zone were particularly emphasised with relevance to the homogeneity of the temperature field.
AB - A numerical study was performed to accommodate mathematical simplification of kinetics and non-premixed reactants in three-dimensional computations. Specifically, the ILDM technique was combined with the presumed probability density function approach to simulate turbulent combustion in a burner operating at MILD combustion, which was characterised by relatively uniform temperatures with no visible flame and sound. An Eulerian solution strategy was implemented in a CFD code on a structured mesh. Predictions of the mean flow field, turbulence kinetic energy, mixture fraction and its variance, temperature, and mass fraction of CO2 and H2O were presented. It is found that the flow near the burner exhibited strong anisotropy and, thus, k - ε turbulence model has over predicted the spread of the jets. Nevertheless, the calculated mean velocities and temperatures reproduce experimental data reasonably well. The mixing mechanism in the near field of the burner was fully described with remarks on the entrainment of flue gas. Low levels of turbulence in the lifted reaction zone were particularly emphasised with relevance to the homogeneity of the temperature field.
KW - CFD
KW - ILDM
KW - MILD combustion
KW - Non-premixed combustion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905258821&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/PCFD.2014.063861
DO - 10.1504/PCFD.2014.063861
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84905258821
SN - 1468-4349
VL - 14
SP - 233
EP - 243
JO - Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
JF - Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
IS - 4
ER -