scholarly journals Numerical simulation of detonation propagation in a plane channel with detailed chemical mechanisms on supercomputers with GPUs

Author(s):  
S. P. Borisov ◽  
A. N. Kudryavtsev ◽  
A. A. Shershnev
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 095106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Di Liberto ◽  
Michele Ciofalo

2008 ◽  
Vol 599 ◽  
pp. 81-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. WANG ◽  
S. L. XU ◽  
C. M. GUO

Gaseous detonation propagation in a bifurcated tube was experimentally and numerically studied for stoichiometric hydrogen and oxygen mixtures diluted with argon. Pressure detection, smoked foil recording and schlieren visualization were used in the experiments. Numerical simulation was carried out at low initial pressure (8.00kPa), based on the reactive Navier–Stokes equations in conjunction with a detailed chemical reaction model. The results show that the detonation wave is strongly disturbed by the wall geometry of the bifurcated tube and undergoes a successive process of attenuation, failure, re-initiation and the transition from regular reflection to Mach reflection. Detonation failure is attributed to the rarefaction waves from the left-hand corner by decoupling leading shock and reaction zones. Re-initiation is induced by the inert leading shock reflection on the right-hand wall in the vertical branch. The branched wall geometry has only a local effect on the detonation propagation. In the horizontal branch, the disturbed detonation wave recovers to a self-sustaining one earlier than that in the vertical branch. A critical case was found in the experiments where the disturbed detonation wave can be recovered to be self-sustaining downstream of the horizontal branch, but fails in the vertical branch, as the initial pressure drops to 2.00kPa. Numerical simulation also shows that complex vortex structures can be observed during detonation diffraction. The reflected shock breaks the vortices into pieces and its interaction with the unreacted recirculation region induces an embedded jet. In the vertical branch, owing to the strength difference at any point and the effect of chemical reactions, the Mach stem cannot be approximated as an arc. This is different from the case in non-reactive steady flow. Generally, numerical simulation qualitatively reproduces detonation attenuation, failure, re-initiation and the transition from regular reflection to Mach reflection observed in experiments.


Author(s):  
Yurii G. Chesnokov ◽  

Using the results obtained by the method of direct numerical simulation of the heat transfer process in a flat channel by various authors, it is shown that at small values of Prandtl number quite a few characteristics of the heat transfer process in a flat channel depend not on Reynolds and Prandtl numbers separately, but on Peclet number. Peclet number is calculated from the so-called dynamic speed


Author(s):  
Takashi Ohta ◽  
Yuta Onishi ◽  
Yasuyuki Sakai

Abstract In order to clarify the mechanism of modulation of turbulence structures such as quasi-streamwise vortices affected by a flame propagating toward a wall, we perform a direct numerical simulation of wall turbulence with premixed hydrogen-air combustion using a detailed chemical reaction mechanism. As a result, existing quasi-streamwise vortices in turbulence near the wall are found to be suppressed, disappearing as the flame approaches. Hence, the turbulent flow tends to become laminar. Moreover, according to the analysis of the vorticity transport equation, it is found that the suppression is due to thermal expansion of the flame rather than an increase in viscosity. From the viewpoint of chemical reactions, it is revealed that thermal expansion inside turbulence vortices is mainly caused by reactions involving H2 and H2O2.


1997 ◽  
Vol 335 ◽  
pp. 361-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER DAVIES ◽  
PETER W. CARPENTER

The evolution of two-dimensional Tollmien–Schlichting waves propagating along a wall shear layer as it passes over a compliant panel of finite length is investigated by means of numerical simulation. It is shown that the interaction of such waves with the edges of the panel can lead to complex patterns of behaviour. The behaviour of the Tollmien–Schlichting waves in this situation, particularly the effect on their growth rate, is pertinent to the practical application of compliant walls for the delay of laminar–turbulent transition. If compliant panels could be made sufficiently short whilst retaining the capability to stabilize Tollmien–Schlichting waves, there is a good prospect that multiple-panel compliant walls could be used to maintain laminar flow at indefinitely high Reynolds numbers.We consider a model problem whereby a section of a plane channel is replaced with a compliant panel. A growing Tollmien–Schlichting wave is then introduced into the plane, rigid-walled, channel flow upstream of the compliant panel. The results obtained are very encouraging from the viewpoint of laminar-flow control. They indicate that compliant panels as short as a single Tollmien–Schlichting wavelength can have a strong stabilizing effect. In some cases the passage of the Tollmien–Schlichting wave over the panel edges leads to the excitation of stable flow-induced surface waves. The presence of these additional waves does not appear to be associated with any adverse effect on the stability of the Tollmien–Schlichting waves. Except very near the panel edges the panel response and flow perturbation can be represented by a superposition of the Tollmien–Schlichting wave and two other eigenmodes of the coupled Orr–Sommerfeld/compliant-wall eigensystem.The numerical scheme employed for the simulations is derived from a novel vorticity–velocity formulation of the linearized Navier–Stokes equations and uses a mixed finite-difference/spectral spatial discretization. This approach facilitated the development of a highly efficient solution procedure. Problems with numerical stability were overcome by combining the inertias of the compliant wall and fluid when imposing the boundary conditions. This allowed the interactively coupled fluid and wall motions to be computed without any prior restriction on the form taken by the disturbances.


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