An efficient flamelet progress-variable method for modeling non-premixed flames in weak electric fields

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2017.08.024zbMATH Open1390.76563arXiv1708.03480OpenAlexW2743334633MaRDI QIDQ1648520FDOQ1648520

Authors: P. De Palma, M. D. de Tullio, Giuseppe Pascazio, Marco Di Renzo 

Publication date: 27 June 2018

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Combustion stabilization and enhancement of the flammability limits are mandatory objectives to improve nowadays combustion chambers. At this purpose, the use of an electric field in the flame region provides a solution which is, at the same time, easy to implement and effective to modify the flame structure. The present work describes an efficient flamelet progress-variable approach developed to model the fluid dynamics of flames immersed in an electric field. The main feature of this model is that it can use complex ionization mechanisms without increasing the computational cost of the simulation. The model is based on the assumption that the combustion process is not directly influenced by the electric field and has been tested using two chemi-ionization mechanisms of different complexity in order to examine its behavior with and without the presence of heavy anions in the mixture. Using a one- and two-dimensional numerical test cases, the present approach has been able to reproduce all the major aspects encountered when a flame is subject to an imposed electric field and the main effects of the different chemical mechanisms. Moreover, the proposed model is shown to produce a large reduction in the computational cost, being able to shorten the time needed to perform a simulation up to 40 times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03480

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zbMATH Keywords

charge transportweak electric fieldchemi-ionizationlow-Mach-number formulationpartially-premixed combustion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Combustion (80A25) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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Uses Software

• FlameMaster

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