Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6679208 | Proceedings of the Combustion Institute | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The local volumetric dilatation rate, namely, the rate of change of an infinitesimal fluid volume per unit volume, â·u, is an important variable particularly in flows with heat release. Its tangential and normal strain rate components, aT and aN, respectively, account for stretching and partially for separation of iso-scalar surfaces. A three-dimensional direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent premixed methane-air flame in a piloted Bunsen burner configuration has been performed by solving the full conservation equations for mass, momentum, energy and chemical species using tabulated chemistry. Results for the volumetric dilatation rate as a function of the iso-scalar surface geometry, characterized by the mean and Gauss curvatures, km and kg, are obtained in several zones (reactants, preheat, reacting and products) of the computational domain. Flat iso-scalar surfaces are the most likely geometries in agreement with previous DNS. The relationship between density and a reaction progress variable, under a low Mach number flamelet assumption, leads to an expression for â·u with contributions from progress variable source and molecular diffusion budget, with a significant contribution from the latter; this approximate expression for the volumetric dilatation rate is studied with DNS results. The joint pdf of aN and aT confirms that the line aT+aN=0 separates mostly expansive flow regions from compressive zones.
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Authors
Luis Cifuentes, César Dopazo, Jesús MartÃn, Pascale Domingo, Luc Vervisch,