The influence of combustion SGS submodels on the resolved flame propagation. Application to the LES of the Cambridge stratified flames

In Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of premixed and stratified combustion, the overall prediction of the flame consumption speed depends on various subgrid scale (SGS) submodels such as the flame wrinkling, the fuel stratification or heat losses. The objective of this study is to investigate the LES sensitivity to the submodeling strategies. Different heat losses and SGS flame wrinkling models are presented in the context of the Filtered TAbulated Chemistry for LES (F-TACLES) formulation. LES of the non-adiabatic non-swirling bluff-body stabilized Cambridge flames (SwB burner) are presented. In this complex configuration, both flame brush and flow dynamics are influenced by flame consumption speed submodels. First, accounting for heat losses impacts the prediction of both velocity and temperature of the inner recirculation zone (IRZ). Second, model constants involved into SGS wrinkling submodels have a great impact on the mean flame brush position. The non-adiabatic formulation combined with a dynamic estimation of the SGS wrinkling model constant appears to be a very attractive approach and gives a very good prediction of both the mean flame location and the IRZ flow dynamics.