Numerical investigation of the steady flamelet approach under different combustion environments

Fuel

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 731-743

  Prieler, Rene ^a   Demuth, Martin ^b   Spoljaric, Davor ^b   Hochenauer, Christoph ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Messer Austria GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Different combustion environments; Melting furnace; Oxygen enriched combustion; Steady flamelet

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; MELTING; MELTING FURNACES; NATURAL GAS; OXYGEN; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TWO PHASE FLOW;

DIFFERENT COMBUSTION ENVIRONMENTS; EDDY DISSIPATION CONCEPT; FLAMELETS; MAXIMUM RELATIVE ERRORS; NATURAL GAS COMBUSTION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OXYGEN-ENRICHED COMBUSTION; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 84908430716     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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