Progress in Modelling Combustors.

Abstract

Recent advances in the solution of the problem of predicting the performance of combustors have been based on finite difference and stirred reactor methods. Due to the limitations of present computers finite difference methods cannot be extended to completely include fuel spray dynamics and realistic chemical kinetics. This difficulty is overcome by using the computed flow patterns to define a network of interconnected stirred and plug-flow reactors. The detailed kinetic scheme presently consists of 13 species undergoing 18 reactions to represent the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels such as kerosine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049327

Entities

People

  • A. Turan
  • J. Swithenbank
  • P. G. Felton

Organizations

  • University of Sheffield

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrhenius Equation
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Continuous Chemical Reactors
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamics
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluids
  • Fuel Sprays
  • Heat Transfer
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Kinetics
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation