Exploring the beta distribution in variable-density turbulent mixing

DOI10.1080/14685248.2010.510843zbMATH Open1273.76160arXiv1003.4046OpenAlexW2079249696MaRDI QIDQ2853863FDOQ2853863

Authors: Jozsef Bakosi, J. R. Ristorcelli 

Publication date: 17 October 2013

Published in: Journal of Turbulence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In assumed probability density function (pdf) methods of turbulent combustion, the shape of the scalar pdf is assumed a priori and the pdf is parametrized by its moments for which model equations are solved. In non-premixed flows the beta distribution has been a convenient choice to represent the mixture fraction in binary mixtures or a progress variable in combustion. Here the beta-pdf approach is extended to variable-density mixing: mixing between materials that have very large density differences and thus the scalar fields are active. As a consequence, new mixing phenomena arise due to 1) cubic non-linearities in the Navier-Stokes equation, 2) additional non-linearities in the molecular diffusion terms and 3) the appearance of the specific volume as a dynamical variable. The assumed beta-pdf approach is extended to transported pdf methods by giving the associated stochastic differential equation (SDE). The beta distribution is shown to be a realizable, consistent and sufficiently general representation of the marginal pdf of the fluid density, an active scalar, in non-premixed variable-density turbulent mixing. The moment equations derived from mass conservation are compared to the moment equations derived from the governing SDE. This yields a series of relations between the non-stationary coefficients of the SDE and the mixing physics. Our treatment of this problem is general: the mixing is mathematically represented by the divergence of the velocity field which can only be specified once the problem is defined. In this paper we seek to describe a theoretical framework to subsequent applications. We report and document several rigorous mathematical results, necessary for forthcoming work that deals with the applications of the current results to model specification, computation and validation of binary mixing of inert fluids.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4046

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zbMATH Keywords

beta distributiontransition to turbulenceprobability density function methodactive scalar mixingvariable-density turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Combustion (80A25) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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