15th European Turbulence Conference 2015
August 25-28th, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands
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Large-eddy simulation of combustion instability in a back-step flow


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Presentation:
Session: Reacting and compressible flows 1
Room: Room F
Session start: 13:30 Wed 26 Aug 2015

Tomoaki Kitano   kitano.tomoaki.88x@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affifliation: Kyoto University

Ryoichi Kurose   kurose@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affifliation: Kyoto University

Satoru Komori   eftel@fluid.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affifliation: Kyoto University


Topics: - Reacting and compressible turbulence, - Large eddy simulation and related techniques, - Turbulent combustion

Abstract:

A large-eddy simulation of combustion instability in a back-step flow is performed, and the effect of equivalent ratio on the combustion instability is investigated. Methane is used as the fuel and a two-step global reaction model is used for the reaction. As the turbulent combustion model, a dynamic thickened flame model is used. The results show that flame is stably formed behind the step by the recirculation flow. Large pressure oscillation and periodical change of flame shape are observed in the case of equivalent ratio of 1.0, and the power spectra of the pressure oscillation has peaks whose frequencies and ntensities well agree with those of the previous experimental study. The intensity of the pressure oscillation becomes much smaller in the cases of equivalent ratio of 0.8 and 1.3, and the change of flame shape also becomes smaller.