Fractal modelling of turbulent combustion (Q4525874)

From the conclusions: A new type of turbulence fractal model (FM) has been developed and proposed in a previous paper [the authors, ibid. 3, No. 4, 637-655 (1999; Zbl 0962.76036)] that (at the moment) assumes an isotropic turbulent viscosity. This model can be applied to RANS and LES codes. In the present paper FM has been extended to the reactive case to study turbulent combustion. FM estimates the volume fraction \(\gamma^*\) occupied by dissipative reacting turbulent structures in each cell, assumed to control the subgrid reaction rate and the heat source term. The model also estimates the local flamelet surface area, giving the possibility to use it in conjunction with laminar flamelet approach. The model can simulate combustion irrelevant of its mode (i.e. diffusive, premixed and/or hybrid) because the local physical interpretation of these macroscopically different flames is the same. In the present paper we have tested the reactive IFM with a diffusion flame: the results obtained so far are in good agreement with the experimental measurements, and are better than those obtained with a \(k-\varepsilon\) approach.