Large Eddy Simulation of a Bluff Body Stabilised Premixed Flame Using Flamelets
Journal Title
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
ISSN
1386-6184
Publisher
Springer Nature
Volume
101
Issue
4
Pages
973-992
Language
English
Type
Article
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Massey, J. C., Langella, I., & Swaminathan, S. (2018). Large Eddy Simulation of a Bluff Body Stabilised Premixed Flame Using Flamelets. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 101 (4), 973-992. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-018-9948-9
Abstract
Large Eddy Simulations of an unconfined turbulent lean premixed flame, which is stabilised behind a bluff body, are conducted using unstrained flamelets as the sub-grid scale combustion closure. The statistics from the simulations are compared with the corresponding data obtained from the experiment and it is demonstrated that the experimental observations are well captured. The relative positioning of the shear layers and the flame brush are analysed to understand the radial variations of the turbulent kinetic energy at various streamwise locations. These results are also compared to confined bluff body stabilised flames, to shed light on the relative role of incoming and shear driven turbulence on the behaviour of the flame brush and the turbulent kinetic energy variation across it.
Keywords
Turbulent premixed flames, Large Eddy Simulation (LES), Flamelets, Bluff body, Flame stabilisation
Sponsorship
EPSRC DTP studentship (RG80792)
Funder references
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Industrial Leadership (IL) (686332)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (1619171)
Embargo Lift Date
2100-01-01
Identifiers
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-018-9948-9
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/279050
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