Impact of the Partitioning Method on Multidimensional Adaptive-Chemistry Simulations

Giuseppe D’Alessio, Alberto Cuoci, Gianmarco Aversano, Mauro Bracconi, Alessandro Stagni and Alessandro Parente
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Giuseppe D’Alessio: Aero-Thermo-Mechanics Laboratory, École polytechnique de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Alberto Cuoci: CRECK Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Gianmarco Aversano: Aero-Thermo-Mechanics Laboratory, École polytechnique de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Mauro Bracconi: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano, Italy
Alessandro Stagni: CRECK Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Alessandro Parente: Aero-Thermo-Mechanics Laboratory, École polytechnique de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-17

Abstract: The large number of species included in the detailed kinetic mechanisms represents a serious challenge for numerical simulations of reactive flows, as it can lead to large CPU times, even for relatively simple systems. One possible solution to mitigate the computational cost of detailed numerical simulations, without sacrificing their accuracy, is to adopt a Sample-Partitioning Adaptive Reduced Chemistry (SPARC) approach. The first step of the aforementioned approach is the thermochemical space partitioning for the generation of locally reduced mechanisms, but this task is often challenging because of the high-dimensionality, as well as the high non-linearity associated to reacting systems. Moreover, the importance of this step in the overall approach is not negligible, as it has effects on the mechanisms’ level of chemical reduction and, consequently, on the accuracy and the computational speed-up of the adaptive simulation. In this work, two different clustering algorithms for the partitioning of the thermochemical space were evaluated by means of an adaptive CFD simulation of a 2D unsteady laminar flame of a nitrogen-diluted methane stream in air. The first one is a hybrid approach based on the coupling between the Self-Organizing Maps with K-Means (SKM), and the second one is the Local Principal Component Analysis (LPCA). Comparable results in terms of mechanism reduction (i.e., the mean number of species in the reduced mechanisms) and simulation accuracy were obtained for both the tested methods, but LPCA showed superior performances in terms of reduced mechanisms uniformity and speed-up of the adaptive simulation. Moreover, the local algorithm showed a lower sensitivity to the training dataset size in terms of the required CPU-time for convergence, thus also being optimal, with respect to SKM, for massive dataset clustering tasks.

Keywords: adaptive-chemistry; clustering; artificial neural networks; chemistry reduction; laminar flames (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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