Direct numerical simulations of autoignition in turbulent two-phase flows
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Article Title | Direct numerical simulations of autoignition in turbulent two-phase flows |
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ERA Journal ID | 3709 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Schroll, Peter (Author), Wandel, Andrew P. (Author), Cant, R. Stewart (Author) and Mastorakos, E. (Author) |
Journal Title | Proceedings of the Combustion Institute |
Journal Citation | 32 (2), pp. 2275-2282 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2009 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0082-0784 |
1540-7489 | |
1873-2704 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.057 |
Abstract | Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) were carried out to investigate the impact of evaporation of droplets on the autoignition process under decaying turbulence. The droplets were taken as point sources and were tracked in a Lagrangian manner. Three cases with the same initial equivalenceratio but different initial droplet size were simulated and the focus was to examine the influence of the droplet evaporation process on the location of autoignition. It was found that an increase in the initial droplet size results in an increase in the autoignition time, that highest reaction rates always occur at a specific mixture fraction xi_MR, as in purely gaseous flows, and that changes in the initial droplet size did not affect the value of xi_MR. The conditional correlation coefficient between scalar dissipation rate and reaction rates was only mildly negative, contrary to the strongly negative values for purely gaseous autoigniting flows, possibly due to the continuous generation of mixture fraction by the droplet evaporation process that randomizes |
Keywords | autoignition; spray; turbulent; DNS; auto-ignition process; autoignition; conditional correlations; decaying turbulences; DNS; droplet evaporations; droplet sizes; equivalence ratios; gaseous flows; Lagrangian; mixture fractions; negative values; point sources; scalar dissipation rates; scalar dissipations; turbulent two-phase flows |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401703. Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical) |
401213. Turbulent flows | |
401204. Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics) | |
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Byline Affiliations | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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