Heat Transfer Effects on a Fully Premixed Methane Impinging Flame

Abstract

The effects of heat transfer on engineering applicationsis a fundamental aspect in the design of power and propulsive systems. The heat exchange between fluid and solid parts may reduce the efficiency of the system in situations where temperature peaks and gradients become important. This is the case of gas turbines, combustion engines or cooling of turbine blades. However, this interaction is difficult to model numerically not only due to the different time scales governing each individual problem, but also due to instability issues related to the coupling strategy(Bunker, 2007). The coupling of the Navier-Stokes equations with the heat equation, also referred as conjugateheat transfer, usually requires the existence of two different solvers, one for each domain, exchanging information at specified boundaries. Partitioned or staggered algorithms can be applied to control the exchange of information allowing the solvers to advanceat different time-steps with the most suitable formulationfor each physical problem (Farhat and Lesoinne,2000).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 30, 2014
Accession Number
AD1006613

Entities

People

  • D. Mira
  • G. Houzeaux
  • H. Owen
  • J. C. Cajas
  • M. Avila
  • M. Vazquez
  • M. Zavala

Organizations

  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adiabatic Conditions
  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Computational Science
  • Conductivity
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Flow Fields
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Loss
  • Heat Transfer
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Turbulent Mixing

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.