Computational study of a micro-turbine engine combustor using Large Eddy Simulation and Reynolds Averaged turbulence models

Large Eddy Simulation of a Gas Turbine Model Combustor

The current design of gas-turbine (GT) systems is driven by the need for increased powerdensities, improved fuel-efficiencies, and reduced life cycle costs and environmental impact. Computational techniques have the potential for providing valuable information for the design of GT combustion systems, if adequate models are available. Over recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the d...

Large-eddy simulation analysis of turbulent combustion in a gas turbine engine combustor

Toward Large-eddy/reynolds-averaged Simulation of Supersonic Combustion

While flamelet-based progress variable models have matured to production-level in recent years for incompressible flows, little development toward compressible formulations of the flamelet model has ensued. For supersonic and hypersonic flows exhibiting combustion, an applicable flamelet-based combustion model must reflect the compressible nature of the flow, the tight coupling of the flow and ...

A Framework for Coupling Reynolds-Averaged With Large-Eddy Simulations for Gas Turbine Applications

Full-scale numerical prediction of the aerothermal flow in gas turbine engines are currently limited by high computational costs. The approach presented here intends the use of different specialized flow solvers based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations as well as large-eddy simulations for different parts of the flow domain, running simultaneously and exchanging information at the...

Large eddy simulation of propane combustion in a planar trapped vortex combustor

Propane combustion in a trapped vortex combustor (TVC) is characterized via large eddy simulation coupled with filtered mass density function. A computational algorithm based on high order finite difference (FD) schemes, is employed to solve the Eulerian filtered compressible Navier-Stokes equations. In contrast, a Lagrangian Monte-Carlo solver based on the filtered mass density function is inv...