PDF Modelling of Turbulent Combustion

Abstract

Important advances are being made in our understanding of turbulent combustion through the comparison between PDF model calculations and detailed experimental data. Previous calculations for the Sandia piloted jet flames have been extended in order to study the sensitivity to the pilot flame temperature and to radiative heat loss. Research is in progress on a new methodology ISAT-DR (in situ adaptive tabulation with dimension reduction) to incorporate detailed chemistry in turbulent combustion computations in an efficient manner. Both aspects of the work performed are advancing and demonstrating the capabilities of turbulent combustion modeling that can be applied to practical combustion devices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 19, 2001
Accession Number
ADP012101

Entities

People

  • Stephen B. Pope

Organizations

  • Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Air Force
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Computations
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Extinction
  • Flames
  • Heat Loss
  • Losses
  • Payload
  • Radiation
  • Sensitivity
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Thermal Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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