Premixed flame response to equivalence ratio fluctuations: Comparison between reduced order modeling and detailed computations

Hemchandra, Santosh (2012) Premixed flame response to equivalence ratio fluctuations: Comparison between reduced order modeling and detailed computations. In: COMBUSTION AND FLAME, 159 (12). pp. 3530-3543.

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Abstract

Combustion instability events in lean premixed combustion systems can cause spatio-temporal variations in unburnt mixture fuel/air ratio. This provides a driving mechanism for heat-release oscillations when they interact with the flame. Several Reduced Order Modelling (ROM) approaches to predict the characteristics of these oscillations have been developed in the past. The present paper compares results for flame describing function characteristics determined from a ROM approach based on the level-set method, with corresponding results from detailed, fully compressible reacting flow computations for the same two dimensional slot flame configuration. The comparison between these results is seen to be sensitive to small geometric differences in the shape of the nominally steady flame used in the two computations. When the results are corrected to account for these differences, describing function magnitudes are well predicted for frequencies lesser than and greater than a lower and upper cutoff respectively due to amplification of flame surface wrinkling by the convective Darrieus-Landau (DL) instability. However, good agreement in describing function phase predictions is seen as the ROM captures the transit time of wrinkles through the flame correctly. Also, good agreement is seen for both magnitude and phase of the flame response, for large forcing amplitudes, at frequencies where the DL instability has a minimal influence. Thus, the present ROM can predict flame response as long as the DL instability, caused by gas expansion at the flame front, does not significantly alter flame front perturbation amplitudes as they traverse the flame. (C) 2012 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	COMBUSTION AND FLAME
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK,
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	28 Dec 2012 09:34
Last Modified:	28 Dec 2012 09:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45458

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