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X Turbulence -radiation interaction in the numerical simulation of reactive flows The turbulence-radiation interaction (TRI) is well established and has been investigated using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes
methods, probability density functions approach and recently Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS).
X TRI in the frame of LES Almost no work has been done about the TRI relevance in large eddy simulation (LES) : [Desjardin and Frankel 1999, Haworth et al. 2005, Jones and Paul 2005] have coupled thermal
radiation to LES of combustion systems without subgrid-scale modelling and [Poitou et al. 2007], in an a-priori study from DNS, have tested models based on Taylor development for the emission part of radiation in a
flame.
X Present study An analysis of the relevance of the various terms of the filtered radiative transfer equation (RTE) is presented. Our approach is based on an a-priori analysis of DNS of statistical steady forced
homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
D κ P I b − κP Ib E D κG I − κG I E 0.8
κP Ib κG I 0.6
0.6
0.4
0.4
in order to quantify how important are the unresolved fluctuations of radiation 0.2
0.2
∆/δ 2 4 8 16 32 0
−0.2
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
s s
L L
RκP Ib (10%) 0.0547% 0.246% 0.780% 1.84% 3.39%
RκP Ib (20%) 0.206% 0.936% 3.00% 7.12% 13.2% → As a first approximation, the SGS fluctuations can be neglected
This assumption should be taken carefully because the terms κ P Ib′′, κ′′
P bI , κG I ′′ and κ′′ I may increase
G
RκP Ib (30%) 0.312% 1.52% 5.28% 13.2% 25.0% locally.
X LES calculation without SGS models The simplest way to close eq. 3 is to suppose that there are no
RκG I (10%) 0.000968% 0.00265% 0.0208% 0.0819% 0.257% subgrid-scale fluctuations concerning radiation :
dI ν
RκG I (20%) 0.00531% 0.0265% 0.109% 0.387% 1.07% ≃ −κν I ν + κν I bν ≃ −κν(T , XCO2 , X H2O)Iν(T , XCO2 , X H2O) + κν(T , XCO2 , X H2O)Ibν(T ) (6)
ds
RκG I (30%) 0.0130% 0.0643% 0.254% 0.818% 1.99%
1.6 Filter size ∆ = 8δ κG I/hκG Ii (a priori from DNS) 1.6
Filter size ∆ = 16δ κG I/hκG Ii (a priori from DNS)
κG I/hκG Ii (LES without SGS model) κ GI/hκG Ii (LES without SGS model)
1.4 1.4
κG I/hκg Ii (DNS) κG I/ < κg I > (DNS)
→ The subgrid-scale (SGS) fluctuations are more important for the radiation emission terms than for 1.2 1.2
The emission term is a local term which is more sensitive to unresolved-scale fluctuations than the 0.8
0.8
absorption term which depends on the physical properties of the medium along the optical path 0.6
0.6
considered. 0.4
0.4
0.2
→ As expected, the influence of the turbulence intensity on the SGS fluctuations is important 0
0.2
L L
A high turbulence intensity combined with a high filter size yields a strong increase of the SGS
fluctuations
→ κG I and κG I are almost merged for small filter size, confirming that in those cases the SGS fluctuations
can be neglected
→ However, LES calculation confirms that locally SGS fluctuations may be significant and SGS modeling
must be developed if high precision is needed or if the turbulence intensity is higher than 20%
X References
Desjardin, P.E. and Frankel, S.H. [1999], Two-dimensional LES of Soot Formation in the Near-Field of a Strongly Radiating Nonpremixed Acetylene-Air Turbulent Jet Flame, Combustion and Flame, Vol.119, No.1-2, pp 121-132
Haworth, D.C., Singh, V., Gupta, A., and Modest, M.F. [2005], LES of turbulent flows with thermal radiation and TRI, in 58th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Chicago, IL 20-22 November
Jones, W.P. and Paul, M.P. [2005], Combination of DOM with LES in a Gas Turbine Combustor, International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol.43, No. 5-6, pp379-397
Poitou, D., El Hafi, M. and Cuenot, B. [2007], Diagnosis of TRI in Turbulent flames and Implications for Modeling in LES, Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environment Sciences, Vol.31, No.6, pp371-381