LES flamelet modeling of a three-stream MILD combustor: Analysis of flame sensitivity to scalar inflow conditions

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1309-1317

  Ihme, Matthias ^a   See, Yee Chee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Flamelet modeling; Large eddy simulation; MILD combustion; Three stream combustion; Turbulent non premixed flames

Indexed keywords

AUTO-IGNITION; CO-FLOW; COMBUSTION CONDITION; COMBUSTION MODEL; COMBUSTION REGIME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAME STRUCTURE; FLAME TEMPERATURES; FLAMELET EQUATIONS; FLAMELET MODELING; FLAMELETS; INFLOW CONDITIONS; JET DIFFUSION FLAME; LEVEL OF FIDELITIES; LIFTED FLAMES; LOW-TEMPERATURE COMBUSTION; MASS FRACTION; MILD COMBUSTION; MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS; MIXTURE FRACTION; OPERATING CONDITION; OXYGEN DILUTION; PREMIXED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STATE-SPACE; THREE-STREAM COMBUSTION; TURBULENCE/CHEMISTRY INTERACTIONS; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION; TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED FLAME; UNRESOLVED SCALE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COMBUSTORS; EDDY CURRENTS; HYDRAULICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXTURES; OXYGEN; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECIFICATIONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

COMBUSTION;

EID: 78650872226     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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