Rate-Controlled Constrained Equilibrium (RCCE) simulations of turbulent partially premixed flames (Sandia DEF) and comparison with detailed chemistry》.pdf

Combustion and Flame 162 (2015) 2256–2271 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Combustion and Flame journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/combustflame Rate-Controlled Constrained Equilibrium (RCCE) simulations of turbulent partially premixed flames (Sandia D/E/F) and comparison with detailed chemistry Salem Elbahloul, Stelios Rigopoulos ⇑ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper investigates the potential of the RCCE mechanism reduction approach for modelling turbulent Received 30 September 2014 flames within the framework of transported PDF methods. For this purpose, PDF simulations are per- Received in revised form 23 January 2015 formed with an RCCE-reduced mechanism via direct integration of the RCCE ODEs, without any tabula- Accepted 26 January 2015 tion, and comparison is made with both the experimental results and those from a PDF simulation with Available online 11 March 2015 direct integration of the detailed mechanism. The flames simulated are the Sandia flames D/E/F and the simulations are carried out with a RANS approach and a Lagrangian particle method for solving the trans- Keywords: ported joint-scalar PDF equation. The detailed mechanism is the well known GRI 3.0 CH4 combustion RCCE mechanism. The turbulence closure employed is the k—e model, while