Combination of DOM with LES in a gas turbine combustor

A three-dimensional numerical study is conducted to investigate the radiative heat transfer in a model gas turbine combustor. The Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM/Sn) has been implemented to solve the filtered Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) for the radiation modelling and this has been combined with a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the flow, temperature and composition fields within the combustion chamber. The radiation considered in the present work is due only to the hot combustion gases notably carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O), which is also known as the 'non-luminous' radiation. A benchmark problem of the ideal furnace is considered first to examine the accuracy and computational efficiency of the DOM in the three-dimensional general body fitted co-ordinate systems.