Liu, Anxiong;
Sun, Binxuan;
Ding, Tianjie;
Rigopoulos, Stelios;
Luo, Kai H;
Jones, William P;
Luo, Kun;
(2024)
Large eddy simulation of soot formation in a turbulent lifted flame with a discretized population balance and a reduced kinetic mechanism.
Physics of Fluids
, 36
(11)
, Article 113323. 10.1063/5.0228650.
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Abstract
This article presents simulations of a turbulent lifted flame using the large eddy simulation-transport probability density function-discretized population balance equation approach. This approach takes into account the interaction between turbulent reacting flow and soot particle formation. A reduced chemical kinetics mechanism including a series of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) species linked to soot formation is generated employing the approach of the directed relation graph error propagation and is tested on a perfectly stirred reactor under varying equivalent ratio conditions and premixed flames. The soot kinetics model includes the PAH-based nucleation and surface condensation, the hydrogen abstraction acetylene addition surface growth and oxidation mechanism, and the size-dependent aggregation. The soot morphology considers the surface area and other geometrical properties for both spherical primary particles and fractal aggregates. The simulation results show, in general, reasonably good agreement with experimental measurements in terms of lifted height, flame shape, flow-field velocity, the hydroxyl radical, and soot volume fraction. A discussion of micromixing and its modeling in the context of the Interaction by Exchange with the Mean model is also presented. To investigate the effect of the soot micromixing frequency factor on soot particles, an additional simulation is conducted where this factor is reduced by a factor of 10 for the soot particles. The maximum soot volume fraction is observed to increase slightly. However, compared with the impact of kinetics on soot modeling, this effect is a minor one.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Large eddy simulation of soot formation in a turbulent lifted flame with a discretized population balance and a reduced kinetic mechanism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0228650 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0228650 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Monte Carlo methods, Probability theory, Flames, Mass diffusivity, Chemical reaction dynamics, Chemical kinetics and dynamics, Computational fluid dynamics, Turbulence simulations, Turbulent flows, Subgrid-scale models |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200517 |
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