Computer modeling of low-emissions gas-turbine combustors requires inclusion of finite-rate chemistry and its intractions with turbulence. The purpose of this review is to outline some recent developments in and applications of the physical models of combusting flows. The models reviewed included the sophisticated and computationally intensive velocity-composition pdf transport method, with applications shown for both a laboratory flame and for a practical gas-turbine combustor, as well as a new and computationally fast PSR-microstructure-based method, with applications shown for both premixed and nonpremixed flames. Calculations are compared with laserbased spectroscopic data where available. The review concentrates on natural-gas-fueled machines, and liquid-fueled machines operating at high power, such that spray vaporization effects can be neglected. Radiation and heat transfer is also outside the scope of this review.
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Research Papers
1.
Anand, M. S., Pope, S. B., and Mongia, H. C., 1990, “Pressure Algorithm for Elliptic Flow Calculations With the PDF Method,” CFD Symposium on Aeropropulsion at NASA-Lewis, Cleveland, OH.
2.
Bilger, R. W., 1988, “The Structure of Turbulent Non-Premixed Flames,” Twenty-Second Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 475–488.
3.
Chen
J.-Y.
Kollmann
W.
Dibble
R. W.
1989
, “PDF Modeling of Turbulent Non-Premixed Methane Jet Flames
,” Combustion Science and Technology
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, pp. 315
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.4.
Correa
S. M.
1992
a, “A Review of NOx Formation Under Gas-Turbine Combustion Conditions
,” Combustion Science and Technology
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.5.
Correa, S. M., 1992b, “Relevance of Non-Premixed Laminar Flames to Turbulent Combustion,” in Major Research Topics in Combustion, eds., M. Y. Hussaini, A. Kumar, and R. G., Voigt, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, pp. 309–338.
6.
Correa
S. M.
1993
, “Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions in the Intermediate Regime of Premixed Combustion
,” Combustion and Flame
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, pp. 41
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.7.
Correa
S. M.
1995
, “Assessment of a 3-Variable Reduced Kinetic Scheme in Prescribed Turbulence
,” Journal of Propulsion and Power
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.8.
Correa
S. M.
Braaten
M. E.
1993
, “Parallel Simulations of Partially-Stirred Methane Combustion
,” GE Class I Report 92CRD273, Nov. 1992; Combustion and Flame
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, pp. 469
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.9.
Correa
S. M.
Gulati
A.
1992
, “Measurements and Modeling of a Bluff-Body Stabilized Flame
,” Combustion and Flame
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, pp. 195
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.10.
Correa, S. M., and Pope, S. B., 1992, “Comparison of a Hybrid Monte-Carlo PDF/Finite-Volume Mean Flow Model With Bluff-Body Raman Data,” Twenty-Fourth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 279–285.
11.
Correa, S. M., and Pope, S. B., 1994, “Raman Measurements and Joint PDF Modeling of a Non-Premixed Bluff Body-Stabilized Methane Flame,” Twenty-Fifth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA pp. 1167–1173.
12.
Correa
S. M.
Shyy
W.
1987
, “Computational Models and Methods for Continuous Gaseous Turbulent Combustion
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, No. 5
, pp. 249
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.13.
Hu, I. Z., and Correa, S. M., 1996, “Calculations of Turbulent Flames Using a PSR Microstructural Library,” Twenty-Sixth Symposium (International) on Combustion, Naples, Italy, July 28-August 2.
14.
Liew
S. K.
Bray
K. N. C.
Moss
J. B.
1984
, “A Stretched Laminar Flamelet Model of Turbulent Nonpremixed Combustion
,” Combustion and Flame
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.15.
Magnussen, B. F., Hjertager, B. H., Olsen, J. G., and Bhaduri, D., 1979, “Effects of Turbulent Structure and Local Concentrations on Soot Formation and Combustion in C2H2 Diffusion Flames,” Seventeenth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 1383–1393.
16.
Nandula, S. P., Pitz, R. W., Barlow, R. S., and Fiechtner, G. J., 1996, “Rayleigh/Raman/LIF Measurements in a Turbulent Lean Premixed Combustor,” Paper No. AIAA 96-0937, 34th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 15–18.
17.
Peters, N., 1988, “Laminar Flamelet Concepts in Turbulent Combustion,” Twenty-First Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 1231–1250.
18.
Pope
S. B.
1985
, “PDF Methods for Turbulent Reactive Flows
,” Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
, Vol. 11
, pp. 119
–192
.19.
Pope, S. B., and Correa, S. M., 1986, “Joint PDF Calculations of a Non-Equilibrium Turbulent Diffusion Flame,” Twenty-First Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 1341–1348.
20.
Pope, S. B., 1990, “Computations of Turbulent Combustion: Progress and Challenges,” Twenty-Third Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 591–612.
21.
Seshadri
K.
Peters
N.
1990
, “The Inner Structure of Methane-Air Flames
,” Combustion and Flame
, Vol. 81
, pp. 96
–118
.22.
Smith, N. S. A., Bilger, R. W., and Chen, J.-Y., 1992, “Modelling of Non-Premixed Hydrogen Jet Flames Using a Conditional Moment Closure Method,” Twenty-Fourth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 263–269.
23.
Tolpadi, A. K., Hu, I. Z., Correa, S. M., and Burrus, D. L., 1996, “Coupled Lagrangian Monte Carlo PDF-CFD Computation of Gas-Turbine Combustor Flow Fields with Finite-Rate Chemistry,” 41st ASME Turbo Expo, Birmingham, U.K., June 10–13; accepted ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas-Turbines and Power.
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