LES of a turbulent lifted methanol spray flame using a novel spray flamelet/progress variable model

Yicun Wang, Changxiao Shao, Kun Luo, Ruipeng Cai, Tai Jin and Jianren Fan

Energy, 2023, vol. 284, issue C

Abstract: Turbulent spray flames are complex combustion configurations and are difficult to be accurately simulated. In this paper, we focus on further development and validation of the two-phase spray flamelet/progress variable (TSFPV) model, which is first proposed in our previous work and shows sound performance because it is able to consider the effect of droplet evaporation on the flamelet structure. A spray evaporation source term (SEST) model is improved in the present work to model the evaporation sources and is applied to the calculation of one-dimensional laminar counterflow flames to generate the spray flamelet library. The SEST model is validated on the configuration of two-dimensional counterflow spray flames, and the a priori and a posteriori results show good agreement with the solutions using the Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) method. The effect of pre-vaporized fuel vapor is further considered in the spray flamelet library, in which both the spray and gaseous flame regimes are covered. The TSFPV model is well validated on the configuration of the laminar mixing layer by comparing the a priori and a posteriori results with detailed chemistry (DC) solutions. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the Sydney turbulent lifted methanol spray flame Mt2A is conducted using the TSFPV model. The flame lift-off is correctly captured and the final predicted lift-off height is very close to the experimental value. The predicted mean droplet velocities show good agreement with experimental measurements, and the rms velocities agree well with the experimental data at downstream locations with a late jet breakup. The droplet size increases along the downstream direction and this trend is well reproduced in the current simulation, though the local peak value of droplet size near the upstream shear layer is not well captured. The central jet temperature at upstream locations is also well predicted by the TSFPV model. Overall, the results show good agreement with the experimental measurements, which illustrates the potential of the TSFPV model for spray combustion modeling.

Keywords: Large Eddy Simulation; Turbulent spray combustion; Spray flamelet model; Lifted flame; Auto-ignition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.128608

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