The flame structure of gasoline engine is complicated and has the characteristic of fractal geometry. A fractal combustion model was used to simulate the engine working cycle. Based on this model, the fractal dimensio...The flame structure of gasoline engine is complicated and has the characteristic of fractal geometry. A fractal combustion model was used to simulate the engine working cycle. Based on this model, the fractal dimension and laminar flame surface area of turbulent premixed flames were studied under different working conditions. The experimental system mainly includes an optical engine and a set of photography equipment used to shoot the images of turbulent flame of spark-ignition engine. The difference box-counting method was used to process 2D combustion images. In contrast to the experimental results, the computational results show that the fractal combustion model is an effective method of simulating the engine combustion process. The study provides a better understanding for flame structure and its propagation.展开更多
Temperature sensitivity of waxy crude oils makes it difficult to study their flow behaviour in the presence of water especially near their wax appearance temperature （WAT）. In this study a method was proposed and im...Temperature sensitivity of waxy crude oils makes it difficult to study their flow behaviour in the presence of water especially near their wax appearance temperature （WAT）. In this study a method was proposed and implemented to mitigate such difficulties which was applied in predicting mixture temperatures （Tin） of a typical Malaysian waxy crude oil and water flow in a horizontal pipe. To this end, two analytical models were derived firstly from calorimetry equation which based on developed two correlations for defining crude oil heat capacity actualized from the existed specific heat capacities of crude oils. The models were then applied for a set of experiments to reach the defined three predetermined Tm （26 ℃, 28 ℃ and 30 ℃）. The comparison between the predicted mixture temperatures （Tin,1 and Tin,2） from the two models and the experimental results displayed acceptable absolute average errors （0.80% 0.62%, 0.53% for model 1; 0,74%, 0.54%, 0.52% for model 2）. Moreover, the average errors for both models are in the range of standard error limits （4-0,75Z） according to ASTM E230. Conclusively, the proposed model showed the ease of obtaining mixture temperatures close to WAT as predetermined with accuracy of ± 0.5 ℃approximately for over 84% of the examined cases. The method is seen as a practical reference point to further study the flow behaviour of waxy crudes in oil-water two-phase flow system near sensitive temperatures.展开更多
A loss model for the mixed-flow pump impellers was developed by summarizing a variety of loss calculation formulas systematically.The internal flow field of the impeller was obtained by employing the iterative calcula...A loss model for the mixed-flow pump impellers was developed by summarizing a variety of loss calculation formulas systematically.The internal flow field of the impeller was obtained by employing the iterative calculation for S 1 and S 2 stream surfaces to solve the continuity and motion equations of fluid.Based on the calculation method of the flow field and the loss model,it is achieved to predict the impeller performance of the mixed-flow pump and the performance curves of a mixed-flow pump model with adjustable blades.Compared with the test data,the loss model of the mixed-flow pump based on the iterative calculation can predict the impeller performance quickly and accurately,which has a high value on the engineering applications.Based on the test verification,curves of various kinds of losses varied for the flow rate were analyzed under different blade angles.In addition,the mechanisms of various kinds of losses inside the mixed-flow pump impeller were discussed in-depth.展开更多
Differential interference contrast method was applied to investigate the flickering characteristics of V-flame in terms of both temporal and spatial scales. The flow characteristics of incident premixed combustibles w...Differential interference contrast method was applied to investigate the flickering characteristics of V-flame in terms of both temporal and spatial scales. The flow characteristics of incident premixed combustibles were measured by means of laser Doppler anemometry (LDA). The characteristics of wake flow behind the stabilizing rod were obtained with numerical simulation. While the integral temporal scale of incident turbulence is about 1ms, the integral spatial scale about 2 mm, the characteristic flickering time scale is about 83 ms and spatial scale about 10 mm. The flame flickering frequency is more than 12 Hz, does not comply with the wake vortex shedding frequency, which is about 110 Hz. It is well-known that the flickering of V-flame is affected by both the incident turbulence and the wake flow after the stabilizing rod, but the result of the paper shows that the relationship between flickering characteristics and flow characteristics is much more complicated by the chemical reaction.展开更多
The application and fundamental study on turbulent premixed combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas is reviewed in this paper.Discussions include the combustion characteristics of direct injection engine fueled wi...The application and fundamental study on turbulent premixed combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas is reviewed in this paper.Discussions include the combustion characteristics of direct injection engine fueled with hydrogen enriched natural gas,visualization study of direct injection combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas using a constant volume vessel,and the fundamental study of turbulent premixed combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas.The effect of additional hydrogen on the combustion process of natural gas engine is investigated from the fundamental view of the interaction between combustion reaction and turbulent flow.展开更多
This paper presents the results of an application of a first-order conditional moment closure （CMC） approach coupled with a semi-empirical soot model to investigate the effect of various detailed combustion chemistr...This paper presents the results of an application of a first-order conditional moment closure （CMC） approach coupled with a semi-empirical soot model to investigate the effect of various detailed combustion chemistry schemes on soot formation and destruction in turbulent non-premixed flames. A two-equation soot model repre- senting soot particle nucleation, growth, coagulation and oxidation, was incorporated into the CMC model. The turbulent flow-field of both flames is described using the Favre-averaged fluid-flow equations, applying a stan- dard k-c turbulence model. A number of five reaction kinetic mechanisms having 50 - 100 species and 200 - 1000 elementary reactions called ABF, Miller-Bowman, GRI-Mech3.0, Warnatz, and Qin were employed to study the effect of combustion chemistry schemes on soot predictions. The results showed that of various kinetic schemes being studied, each yields similar accuracy in temperature prediction when compared with experimental data. With respect to soot prediction, the kinetic scheme containing benzene elementary reactions tends to result in a better prediction on soot concentrations in comparison to those contain no benzene elementary reactions. Among five kinetic mechanisms being studied, the Qin combustion scheme mechanism turned to yield the best prediction on both flame temperature and soot levels.展开更多
Numerical prediction of turbulent mixing can be divided into two subproblems: to predict the geometrical extent of a mixing region and to predict the mixing properties on an atomic or molecular scale, within the mixin...Numerical prediction of turbulent mixing can be divided into two subproblems: to predict the geometrical extent of a mixing region and to predict the mixing properties on an atomic or molecular scale, within the mixing region. The former goal suffices for some purposes, while important problems of chemical reactions(e.g. flames) and nuclear reactions depend critically on the second goal in addition to the first one. Here we review recent progress in establishing a conceptual reformulation of convergence, and we illustrate these concepts with a review of recent numerical studies addressing turbulence and mixing in the high Reynolds number limit. We review significant progress on the first goal, regarding the mixing region, and initial progress on the second goal, regarding atomic level mixing properties. New results concerning non-uniqueness of the infinite Reynolds number solutions and other consequences of a renormalization group point of view, to be published in detail elsewhere, are summarized here.The notion of stochastic convergence(of probability measures and probability distribution functions) replaces traditional pointwise convergence. The primary benefit of this idea is its increased stability relative to the statistical "noise" which characterizes turbulent flow. Our results also show that this modification of convergence, with sufficient mesh refinement, may not be needed. However, in practice, mesh refinement is seldom sufficient and the stochastic convergence concepts have a role.Related to this circle of ideas is the observation that turbulent mixing, in the limit of high Reynolds number, appears to be non-unique. Not only have multiple solutions been observed(and published) for identical problems, but simple physics based arguments and more refined arguments based on the renormalization group come to the same conclusion.Because of the non-uniqueness inherent in numerical models of high Reynolds number turbulence and mixing, we also include here numerical examples of validation. The algorithm we use here has two essential components. We depend on Front Tracking to allow accurate resolution of flows with sharp interfaces or steep gradients(concentration or thermal), as are common in turbulent mixing problems. The higher order and enhanced algorithms for interface tracking, both those already developed, and those proposed here, allow a high resolution and uniquely accurate description of sample mixing problems. Additionally, we depend on the use of dynamic subgrid scale models to set otherwise missing values for turbulent transport coefficients, a step that breaks the non-uniqueness.展开更多
The large eddy simulation (LES) using the steady laminar flamelet model is applied to a simple turbulent jet flame with 33.2% H2,22.1% CH4 and 44.7% N2 at the Reynolds number of 15,200 in order to validate the numeric...The large eddy simulation (LES) using the steady laminar flamelet model is applied to a simple turbulent jet flame with 33.2% H2,22.1% CH4 and 44.7% N2 at the Reynolds number of 15,200 in order to validate the numerical methods and to investigate the flame structure.For the validation,the detailed experimental data of DLR-A flame is used.The numerical results are in reasonable agreement with experimental results except mass fractions of minor species.In the flow field,the break-down of the potential core,the vortex structure and the mixing intensity are well captured.In the combustion field,mass fractions of major species (H2O,CO2,CO) are well predicted quantitatively.Minor species are well predicted qualitatively.In the present study,the simulations conducted on the Cartesian and cylindrical grids with approximately 6.6× 10 5 nodes are compared.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50876072) Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. 07JCYBJC03900 )
文摘The flame structure of gasoline engine is complicated and has the characteristic of fractal geometry. A fractal combustion model was used to simulate the engine working cycle. Based on this model, the fractal dimension and laminar flame surface area of turbulent premixed flames were studied under different working conditions. The experimental system mainly includes an optical engine and a set of photography equipment used to shoot the images of turbulent flame of spark-ignition engine. The difference box-counting method was used to process 2D combustion images. In contrast to the experimental results, the computational results show that the fractal combustion model is an effective method of simulating the engine combustion process. The study provides a better understanding for flame structure and its propagation.
基金Supported by the Malaysia's Ministry of Higher Education(FRGS/4F136)the University Teknologi Malaysia(RUG/01H68)
文摘Temperature sensitivity of waxy crude oils makes it difficult to study their flow behaviour in the presence of water especially near their wax appearance temperature （WAT）. In this study a method was proposed and implemented to mitigate such difficulties which was applied in predicting mixture temperatures （Tin） of a typical Malaysian waxy crude oil and water flow in a horizontal pipe. To this end, two analytical models were derived firstly from calorimetry equation which based on developed two correlations for defining crude oil heat capacity actualized from the existed specific heat capacities of crude oils. The models were then applied for a set of experiments to reach the defined three predetermined Tm （26 ℃, 28 ℃ and 30 ℃）. The comparison between the predicted mixture temperatures （Tin,1 and Tin,2） from the two models and the experimental results displayed acceptable absolute average errors （0.80% 0.62%, 0.53% for model 1; 0,74%, 0.54%, 0.52% for model 2）. Moreover, the average errors for both models are in the range of standard error limits （4-0,75Z） according to ASTM E230. Conclusively, the proposed model showed the ease of obtaining mixture temperatures close to WAT as predetermined with accuracy of ± 0.5 ℃approximately for over 84% of the examined cases. The method is seen as a practical reference point to further study the flow behaviour of waxy crudes in oil-water two-phase flow system near sensitive temperatures.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51176088)the Open Research Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering of Tsinghua University(Grant No. 2009T3)
文摘A loss model for the mixed-flow pump impellers was developed by summarizing a variety of loss calculation formulas systematically.The internal flow field of the impeller was obtained by employing the iterative calculation for S 1 and S 2 stream surfaces to solve the continuity and motion equations of fluid.Based on the calculation method of the flow field and the loss model,it is achieved to predict the impeller performance of the mixed-flow pump and the performance curves of a mixed-flow pump model with adjustable blades.Compared with the test data,the loss model of the mixed-flow pump based on the iterative calculation can predict the impeller performance quickly and accurately,which has a high value on the engineering applications.Based on the test verification,curves of various kinds of losses varied for the flow rate were analyzed under different blade angles.In addition,the mechanisms of various kinds of losses inside the mixed-flow pump impeller were discussed in-depth.
文摘Differential interference contrast method was applied to investigate the flickering characteristics of V-flame in terms of both temporal and spatial scales. The flow characteristics of incident premixed combustibles were measured by means of laser Doppler anemometry (LDA). The characteristics of wake flow behind the stabilizing rod were obtained with numerical simulation. While the integral temporal scale of incident turbulence is about 1ms, the integral spatial scale about 2 mm, the characteristic flickering time scale is about 83 ms and spatial scale about 10 mm. The flame flickering frequency is more than 12 Hz, does not comply with the wake vortex shedding frequency, which is about 110 Hz. It is well-known that the flickering of V-flame is affected by both the incident turbulence and the wake flow after the stabilizing rod, but the result of the paper shows that the relationship between flickering characteristics and flow characteristics is much more complicated by the chemical reaction.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51376004 and 51006080)the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Program)(Grant No.2013CB228406)
文摘The application and fundamental study on turbulent premixed combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas is reviewed in this paper.Discussions include the combustion characteristics of direct injection engine fueled with hydrogen enriched natural gas,visualization study of direct injection combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas using a constant volume vessel,and the fundamental study of turbulent premixed combustion of hydrogen enriched natural gas.The effect of additional hydrogen on the combustion process of natural gas engine is investigated from the fundamental view of the interaction between combustion reaction and turbulent flow.
基金Supported by Ministry of National Education,Republic of Indonesia No.433/SP2H/PP/DP2M/VI/2010
文摘This paper presents the results of an application of a first-order conditional moment closure （CMC） approach coupled with a semi-empirical soot model to investigate the effect of various detailed combustion chemistry schemes on soot formation and destruction in turbulent non-premixed flames. A two-equation soot model repre- senting soot particle nucleation, growth, coagulation and oxidation, was incorporated into the CMC model. The turbulent flow-field of both flames is described using the Favre-averaged fluid-flow equations, applying a stan- dard k-c turbulence model. A number of five reaction kinetic mechanisms having 50 - 100 species and 200 - 1000 elementary reactions called ABF, Miller-Bowman, GRI-Mech3.0, Warnatz, and Qin were employed to study the effect of combustion chemistry schemes on soot predictions. The results showed that of various kinetic schemes being studied, each yields similar accuracy in temperature prediction when compared with experimental data. With respect to soot prediction, the kinetic scheme containing benzene elementary reactions tends to result in a better prediction on soot concentrations in comparison to those contain no benzene elementary reactions. Among five kinetic mechanisms being studied, the Qin combustion scheme mechanism turned to yield the best prediction on both flame temperature and soot levels.
基金supported in part by the Nuclear Energy University Program of the Department of Energy,project NEUP-09-349,Battelle Energy Alliance LLC 00088495(subaward with DOE as prime sponsor),Leland Stanford Junior University 2175022040367A(subaward with DOE asprime sponsor),Army Research Office W911NF0910306This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory,which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S.Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.Stony Brook University Preprint number SUNYSB-AMS-12-04
文摘Numerical prediction of turbulent mixing can be divided into two subproblems: to predict the geometrical extent of a mixing region and to predict the mixing properties on an atomic or molecular scale, within the mixing region. The former goal suffices for some purposes, while important problems of chemical reactions(e.g. flames) and nuclear reactions depend critically on the second goal in addition to the first one. Here we review recent progress in establishing a conceptual reformulation of convergence, and we illustrate these concepts with a review of recent numerical studies addressing turbulence and mixing in the high Reynolds number limit. We review significant progress on the first goal, regarding the mixing region, and initial progress on the second goal, regarding atomic level mixing properties. New results concerning non-uniqueness of the infinite Reynolds number solutions and other consequences of a renormalization group point of view, to be published in detail elsewhere, are summarized here.The notion of stochastic convergence(of probability measures and probability distribution functions) replaces traditional pointwise convergence. The primary benefit of this idea is its increased stability relative to the statistical "noise" which characterizes turbulent flow. Our results also show that this modification of convergence, with sufficient mesh refinement, may not be needed. However, in practice, mesh refinement is seldom sufficient and the stochastic convergence concepts have a role.Related to this circle of ideas is the observation that turbulent mixing, in the limit of high Reynolds number, appears to be non-unique. Not only have multiple solutions been observed(and published) for identical problems, but simple physics based arguments and more refined arguments based on the renormalization group come to the same conclusion.Because of the non-uniqueness inherent in numerical models of high Reynolds number turbulence and mixing, we also include here numerical examples of validation. The algorithm we use here has two essential components. We depend on Front Tracking to allow accurate resolution of flows with sharp interfaces or steep gradients(concentration or thermal), as are common in turbulent mixing problems. The higher order and enhanced algorithms for interface tracking, both those already developed, and those proposed here, allow a high resolution and uniquely accurate description of sample mixing problems. Additionally, we depend on the use of dynamic subgrid scale models to set otherwise missing values for turbulent transport coefficients, a step that breaks the non-uniqueness.
文摘The large eddy simulation (LES) using the steady laminar flamelet model is applied to a simple turbulent jet flame with 33.2% H2,22.1% CH4 and 44.7% N2 at the Reynolds number of 15,200 in order to validate the numerical methods and to investigate the flame structure.For the validation,the detailed experimental data of DLR-A flame is used.The numerical results are in reasonable agreement with experimental results except mass fractions of minor species.In the flow field,the break-down of the potential core,the vortex structure and the mixing intensity are well captured.In the combustion field,mass fractions of major species (H2O,CO2,CO) are well predicted quantitatively.Minor species are well predicted qualitatively.In the present study,the simulations conducted on the Cartesian and cylindrical grids with approximately 6.6× 10 5 nodes are compared.
