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    Soot evolution in turbulent non-premixed bluff body flames: Assessment of detailed soot formation models using large eddy simulation
    (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2024-01-26)
    Exploring the complexities of soot formation in combustion systems implies recognizing the intricate interplay among turbulence, chemical kinetics, radiation, and soot particle dynamics. Achieving accurate predictions of soot levels in turbulent flames entails a meticulous representation of all stages of soot formation and oxidation, which prompts the development and use of detailed soot formation models. This work delves into three detailed soot models-Method of Moments with Interpolative Closure (MOMIC), Hybrid Method of Moments (HMOM), and Discrete Sectional Method (DSM)-integrated into the open-source computational tool OpenFOAM. Both the combustion process and the formation of soot precursors in the gas phase are characterized using the Flamelet Progress Variable combustion model along with the detailed ABF chemical kinetic mechanism. Turbulence is addressed through a Large Eddy Simulation based approach, and the computational results are compared with experimental data from the Adelaide ENB1 Bluff Body Flame. Specifically, the analysis extends to detailing flow velocities and their fluctuations, along with fields and profiles depicting soot volume fraction. In order to obtain quantitatively correct soot volume fractions, the nucleation sticking factor was adjusted. The comparative assessments of the soot formation models carried out provide a unique perspective on soot formation, highlighting different effects of each soot source terms and specific model limitations. HMOM described the measured soot volume fraction with greatest accuracy followed by DSM and MOMIC.
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    Numerical Simulation of Bluff Body Turbulent Flows Using Hybrid RANS/LES Turbulence Models
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023-04-01)
    Many engineering applications involve turbulent flows around bluff bodies. Because of their intrinsically unsteady dynamics, bluff body characteristic flows feature unique turbulence-related phenomena, which makes their numerical modeling challenging. Accordingly, accounting for a circular bluff body flow configuration, three different turbulence modeling approaches are investigated in this work, (i) Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS), (ii) large eddy simulation (LES), and (iii) hybrid RANS/LES. Regarding the hybrid approaches, two variants of the detached eddy simulation (DES) one, delayed DES (DDES) and improved delayed DES (IDDES), are studied. As RANS model, the k - ωSST is utilized here. This RANS model is also used as the background one for both DDES and IDDES. Wall-adaptive local eddy viscosity (WALE) is used in turn as the sub-grid scale (SGS) model for LES. The velocity two-point correlation function is used to assess the mesh size requirements. When compared to experimental data, the obtained numerical results indicate that RANS overestimates the recirculating bubble length by over 18% and is not capable of describing the turbulent kinetic energy and the flow anisotropy in agreement with the experimental data. In contrast, LES, DDES, and IDDES are all within 1% of the recirculating bubble length while predicting both the Reynolds stress tensor components and the corresponding flow anisotropy in agreement with the measurements. Besides, normalized anisotropy tensor invariants maxima in the shear layer were reproduced by all scale resolving models studied here, but they failed to yield the local extrema measured within the wake recirculation region. A comparative analysis of the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor invariances underscores the adequacy of the scale resolving models.