Recognition of Distributed Combustion Regime From Deep Learning

Abstract

Swirl-assisted distributed combustion was examined using a deep-learning framework. High intensity distributed combustion was fostered from a 5.72 MW/m3 atm thermal intensity swirl combustor (with methane fuel at equivalence ratio 0.9) by diluting the flowfield with carbon dioxide. Dilution of the flowfield caused reduction of global oxygen (%) content of the inlet mixture from 21% to 16% (in distributed combustion). The adiabatic flame temperature gradually reduced, resulting in decreased flame luminosity and increased flame thermal field uniformity. Gradual reduction of flame chemiluminescence was captured using high-speed imaging without any spectral filtering at different oxygen concentration (%) levels to gather the data input. Convolutional neural network (CNN) was developed from these images (with 85% of total data used for training and 15% for testing) for flames at O2 = 16%, 18%, 19%, and 21%. Hyperparameters were varied to optimize the model. New flame images at O2 = 20% and 17% were introduced to verify the image recognition capability of the trained model in terms of training image data. The results showed good promise of developed deep-learning-based convolutional neural network or machine learning neural network for efficient and effective recognition of the distributed combustion regime.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Feb 16, 2022
Source ID
10.1115/1.4053616

Entities

People

  • Ashwani K. Gupta
  • Rishi Roy

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • University of Maryland

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks