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Book ChapterKAUST Grant Number
KUS-11-010-01Date
2011Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/600138
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Direct simulation of all the length and time scales relevant to practical combustion processes is computationally prohibitive. When combustion processes are driven by reaction and transport phenomena occurring at the unresolved scales of a numerical simulation, one must introduce a dynamic subgrid model that accounts for the multiscale nature of the problem using information available on a resolvable grid. Here, we discuss a model that captures unsteady flow-flame interactions- including extinction, re-ignition, and history effects-via embedded simulations at the subgrid level. The model efficiently accounts for subgrid flame structure and incorporates detailed chemistry and transport, allowing more accurate prediction of the stretch effect and the heat release. In this chapter we first review the work done in the past thirty years to develop the flame embedding concept. Next we present a formulation for the same concept that is compatible with Large Eddy Simulation in the flamelet regimes. The unsteady flame embedding approach (UFE) treats the flame as an ensemble of locally one-dimensional flames, similar to the flamelet approach. However, a set of elemental one-dimensional flames is used to describe the turbulent flame structure directly at the subgrid level. The calculations employ a one-dimensional unsteady flame model that incorporates unsteady strain rate, curvature, and mixture boundary conditions imposed by the resolved scales. The model is used for closure of the subgrid terms in the context of large eddy simulation. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) data from a flame-vortex interaction problem is used for comparison. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.Citation
El-Asrag HA, Ghoniem AF (2011) Unsteady Flame Embedding. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications: 277–300. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0412-1_12.Sponsors
This work is supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Award No. KUS-11-010-01. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the inspiring discussions and valuable comments from Suresh Menon, Heinz Pitsch, Tarek Echekki, Evatt R. Hawkes, R. Stewart Cant, Christopher Rutland, Youssef Marzouk, and Jean-Christophe Nave.Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/978-94-007-0412-1_12