Modélisation du rayonnement dans la simulation aux grandes échelles de la combustion turbulente

La simulation de la combustion turbulente connait un nouvel essor avec l'introduction de la Simulation aux Grandes Échelles (SGE) qui permet de prédire l'évolution in stationnaire de l'écoulement réactif turbulent. Dans ce contexte la prise en compte du rayonnement soulève des questions d'ordre a la fois fondamental et pratique. En effet les processus physiques du rayonnement et de la combustion sont de nature radicalement différente : la combustion est contrôlée par des échanges locaux sur une durée finie, alors que le rayonnement est instantané et fait intervenir des échanges a distance. En premier lieu il convient de s'interroger sur l'impact de la modélisation SGE de la combustion turbulente sur le rayonnement. Cette question est traitée dans le cadre plus général de l'interaction rayonnement-turbulence. A partir d'études théoriques et numériques, il est montre que cette interaction est faible et qu'une solution SGE peut être directement utilisée pour un calcul radiatif, sans modélisation supplémentaire. Il s'agit ensuite de mettre en place de façon pratique le couplage in stationnaire rayonnement-combustion turbulente. Un point clé est la réduction du temps de calcul pour le rayonnement, et diverses stratégies sont proposées. En particulier un nouveau modèle spectral est introduit, utilisant une technique de tabulation et garantissant un niveau de précision suffisant. Le temps de calcul radiatif a ainsi été réduit de deux ordres de grandeur, permettant la réalisation d'un calcul couple sur une configuration de flamme pré-melangée turbulente. ABSTRACT : Simulation of turbulent combustion has gained high potential with the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach, allowing to predict unsteady turbulent reactive flows. In this context, taking into account radiation rises new fundamental and practical questions. Indeed the physics involved in radiation and in combustion are completely different : combustion is controlled by local exchanges and finite times whereas radiation is instantaneous and is based on non-local exchanges. In a first step, the impact of LES modelling of turbulent combustion on radiation is regarded. This question is treated in the more general frame of the turbulence-radiation interaction. From theoretical and numerical studies, it is shown that this interaction is weak in the LES context so that LES solutions can be directly coupled to radiative calculations, without further modelling. Then the unsteady coupling of radiation and turbulent combustion is realised. A key point is the reduction of calculation time of radiation, and several strategies are proposed. In particular a new global spectral model is introduced, using a tabulation technique and ensuring a sufficient level of accuracy. The radiative time calculation is finally decreased by two orders of magnitude, enabling the realization of a coupled calculation of a turbulent premixed flam

Diagnosis of turbulence radiation interaction in turbulent flames and implications for modeling in large Eddy simulation

International audienceAn a priori study of the turbulence radiation interaction (TRI) is performed on numerical data from Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of a turbulent flame. The influence of the various correlations that appear in the radiative emission is investigated and their impact is evaluated in the context of Large Eddy Simulation (LES). In LES, only filtered quantities are computed, where the filter is the grid. The radiative emission is reconstructed first from the exact, then filtered solution variables and the sensitivity to the filter size is evaluated. Three approaches are used to take into account the subgrid scale correlations: the no-TRI, partial TRI and full TRI approaches. Results show that the full TRI is exact compared to the reference emission and that the partial TRI performs worse than the no-TRI for the studied configuration. This indicates that in the studied case, the TRI must be considered in LES in a full formulation

Analysis of the interaction between turbulent combustion and thermal radiation using unsteady coupled LES/DOM simulations

International audienceRadiation exchanges must be taken into account to improve the prediction of heat fluxes in turbulent combustion. The strong interaction with turbulence and its role on the formation of polluting species require the study of unsteady coupled calculations using Large Eddy Simulations (LESs) of the turbulent combustion process. Radiation is solved using the Discrete Ordinate Method (DOM) and a global spectral model. A detailed study of the coupling between radiative heat transfer and LES simulation involving a real laboratory flame configuration is presented. First the impact of radiation on the flame structure is discussed: when radiation is taken into account, temperature levels increase in the fresh gas and decrease in the burnt gas, with variations ranging from 100 K to 150 K thus impacting the density of the gas. Coupling DOM and LES allows to analyze radiation effects on flame stability: temperature fluctuations are increased, and a wavelet frequency analysis shows changes in the flow characteristic frequencies. The second part of the study focuses on the Turbulence Radiation Interaction (TRI) using the instantaneous radiative fields on the whole computational domain. TRI correlations are calculated and are discussed along four levels of approximation. The LES study shows that all the TRI correlations are significant and must be taken into account. These correlations are also useful to calculate the TRI correlations in the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute

Unsteady coupling of Navier-Stokes and radiative heat transfer solvers applied to an anisothermal multicomponent turbulent channel flow

Eurotherm Seminar 83 on Computational Thermal Radiation in Participating Media III, Lisbon, PORTUGAL, APR 15-17, 2009International audienceDirect numerical simulations (DNS) of an anisothermal reacting turbulent channel flow with and without radiative source terms have been performed to study the influence of the radiative heat transfer on the optically non-homogeneous boundary layer structure. A methodology for the study of the emitting/absorbing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) is presented. Details on the coupling strategy and the parallelization techniques are exposed. An analysis of the first order statistics is then carried out. It is shown that, in the studied configuration, the global structure of the thermal boundary layer is not significantly modified by radiation. However, the radiative transfer mechanism is not negligible and contributes to the heat losses at the walls. The classical law-of-the-wall for temperature can thus be improved for RANS/LES simulations taking into account the radiative contribution

High performance conjugate heat transfer with the openpalm coupler

Optimizing gas turbines is a complex multi-physical and multi-component problem that has long been based on expensive experiments. Today, computer simulations can reduce design process costs and are acknowledged as a promising path for optimization. Although the simulations of specific components of gas turbines become accessible, these stand-alone simulations face a new challenge: to improve the quality of the results, new physics must be introduced. Based on the simulation of conjugate heat transfer within an industrial combustor to predict the temperature of its walls, the current work aims at studying the scalability of code coupling on HPC architectures. Coupling accurately solvers on massively parallel architectures while maintaining their scalability is challenging. The strategy investigated relies on recent developments made in a generic parallel coupler. Performance tests have been carried out until 12,288 cores on the CURIE supercomputer (TGCC / CEA). Results show a good behavior and advanced analyzes are carried out in order to draw new paths for future developments in coupled simulations

Radiation modelling in large eddy simulation of turbulent combustion

La simulation de la combustion turbulente connait un nouvel essor avec l'introduction de la Simulation aux Grandes Échelles (SGE) qui permet de prédire l'évolution in stationnaire de l'écoulement réactif turbulent. Dans ce contexte la prise en compte du rayonnement soulève des questions d'ordre a la fois fondamental et pratique. En effet les processus physiques du rayonnement et de la combustion sont de nature radicalement différente : la combustion est contrôlée par des échanges locaux sur une durée finie, alors que le rayonnement est instantané et fait intervenir des échanges a distance. En premier lieu il convient de s'interroger sur l'impact de la modélisation SGE de la combustion turbulente sur le rayonnement. Cette question est traitée dans le cadre plus général de l'interaction rayonnement-turbulence. A partir d'études théoriques et numériques, il est montre que cette interaction est faible et qu'une solution SGE peut être directement utilisée pour un calcul radiatif, sans modélisation supplémentaire. Il s'agit ensuite de mettre en place de façon pratique le couplage in stationnaire rayonnement-combustion turbulente. Un point clé est la réduction du temps de calcul pour le rayonnement, et diverses stratégies sont proposées. En particulier un nouveau modèle spectral est introduit, utilisant une technique de tabulation et garantissant un niveau de précision suffisant. Le temps de calcul radiatif a ainsi été réduit de deux ordres de grandeur, permettant la réalisation d'un calcul couple sur une configuration de flamme pré-melangée turbulente.Simulation of turbulent combustion has gained high potential with the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach, allowing to predict unsteady turbulent reactive flows. In this context, taking into account radiation rises new fundamental and practical questions. Indeed the physics involved in radiation and in combustion are completely different : combustion is controlled by local exchanges and finite times whereas radiation is instantaneous and is based on non-local exchanges. In a first step, the impact of LES modelling of turbulent combustion on radiation is regarded. This question is treated in the more general frame of the turbulence-radiation interaction. From theoretical and numerical studies, it is shown that this interaction is weak in the LES context so that LES solutions can be directly coupled to radiative calculations, without further modelling. Then the unsteady coupling of radiation and turbulent combustion is realised. A key point is the reduction of calculation time of radiation, and several strategies are proposed. In particular a new global spectral model is introduced, using a tabulation technique and ensuring a sufficient level of accuracy. The radiative time calculation is finally decreased by two orders of magnitude, enabling the realization of a coupled calculation of a turbulent premixed flam

Comparison of databases for radiative heat transfer calculations in combustion applications with the NBKMcK model

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Modélisation du rayonnement dans la simulation aux grandes échelles de la combustion turbulente

La simulation de la combustion turbulente connait un nouvel essor avec l'introduction de la Simulation aux Grandes Échelles (SGE) qui permet de prédire l'évolution in stationnaire de l'écoulement réactif turbulent. Dans ce contexte la prise en compte du rayonnement soulève des questions d'ordre a la fois fondamental et pratique. En effet les processus physiques du rayonnement et de la combustion sont de nature radicalement différente : la combustion est contrôlée par des échanges locaux sur une durée finie, alors que le rayonnement est instantané et fait intervenir des échanges a distance. En premier lieu il convient de s'interroger sur l'impact de la modélisation SGE de la combustion turbulente sur le rayonnement. Cette question est traitée dans le cadre plus général de l'interaction rayonnement-turbulence. A partir d'études théoriques et numériques, il est montre que cette interaction est faible et qu'une solution SGE peut être directement utilisée pour un calcul radiatif, sans modélisation supplémentaire. Il s'agit ensuite de mettre en place de façon pratique le couplage in stationnaire rayonnement-combustion turbulente. Un point clé est la réduction du temps de calcul pour le rayonnement, et diverses stratégies sont proposées. En particulier un nouveau modèle spectral est introduit, utilisant une technique de tabulation et garantissant un niveau de précision suffisant. Le temps de calcul radiatif a ainsi été réduit de deux ordres de grandeur, permettant la réalisation d'un calcul couple sur une configuration de flamme pré-melangée turbulente.Simulation of turbulent combustion has gained high potential with the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach, allowing to predict unsteady turbulent reactive flows. In this context, taking into account radiation rises new fundamental and practical questions. Indeed the physics involved in radiation and in combustion are completely different : combustion is controlled by local exchanges and finite times whereas radiation is instantaneous and is based on non-local exchanges. In a first step, the impact of LES modelling of turbulent combustion on radiation is regarded. This question is treated in the more general frame of the turbulence-radiation interaction. From theoretical and numerical studies, it is shown that this interaction is weak in the LES context so that LES solutions can be directly coupled to radiative calculations, without further modelling. Then the unsteady coupling of radiation and turbulent combustion is realised. A key point is the reduction of calculation time of radiation, and several strategies are proposed. In particular a new global spectral model is introduced, using a tabulation technique and ensuring a sufficient level of accuracy. The radiative time calculation is finally decreased by two orders of magnitude, enabling the realization of a coupled calculation of a turbulent premixed flameTOULOUSE-INP (315552154) / SudocSudocFranceF