On Extension of “Heatline” and “Massline” Concepts to Reacting Flows Through Use of Conserved Scalars

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achintya Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Xiao Qin ◽  
Suresh K. Aggarwal ◽  
Ishwar K. Puri

A new formulation for extending the concept of heatlines and masslines to reacting flows through use of conserved scalars has been proposed. The formulation takes into account the distinct diffusion coefficients of different species. Results have been obtained for a number of two-dimensional nonreacting and reacting free shear flows under normal and zero gravity. For nonreacting flows, total enthalpy and elemental mass fractions have been used as the transported conserved scalars. For reacting flows, mixture fractions, defined as normalized elemental mass fractions and enthalpy, have been employed. The results show this concept to be a useful tool for obtaining better insights into the global qualitative picture of scalar transport for both nonreacting and reacting flows.

Author(s):  
Yuri M. Laevsky ◽  
Tatyana A. Nosova

AbstractA multidimensional model of filtration gas combustion is presented. The model is based on the system of conservation laws of ‘temperature – heat flow’, ‘mass–diffusive flow’ types with introducing the concept of total enthalpy flow. Results of numerical experiments are presented for the one- and two-dimensional problems for different conditions and parameters.


Author(s):  
Issam Lakkis

Vortex methods for simulating natural convection of an ideal gas in unbounded two-dimensional domains are presented. In particular, the redistribution method for diffusion is extended to enable simulation of nonlinear diffusion of an ideal gas in isobaric conditions encountered in unbounded low-Mach number flows. We also address the problem of handling source terms in grid-free vortex methods and propose a fast, accurate, and physically motivated method for solving the associated inverse problems. Examples include generation of baroclinic vorticity in non-reacting buoyancy driven flows, and in addition, generation of internal energy and species in buoyant reacting flows. Accuracy and speed of the proposed algorithms for nonlinear diffusion and vorticity generation are investigated separately. Simulations of natural convection of a “thermal patch” for Grashof number ranging from to 1562.5 to 25000 are presented.


2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 95-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Grau ◽  
S. Beltrán ◽  
M. de Gracia ◽  
E. Ayesa

This paper proposes a new methodology for the automatic characterization of the influent wastewater in WWTP. With this methodology, model components are automatically estimated by means of optimization algorithms combining a-priori knowledge of the expected wastewater composition with experimental information from the available measurement data. The characterization is carried out based on an extended model components list in which components are described by means their elemental mass fractions. This allows an easy establishment of relationships between model components with experimental data and also, to obtain a general methodology applicable to any model used for wastewater biological treatments. The characterization of the wastewater influent of Galindo-Bilbao according this methodology has demonstrated its validity and the easy application to the ASM1 model influent characterization.


2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. de Gracia ◽  
L. Sancho ◽  
J.L. García-Heras ◽  
P. Vanrolleghem ◽  
E. Ayesa

This paper proposes a systematic methodology for the analysis of the mass and charge balances in dynamic models expressed using the Petersen matrix notation. This methodology is based on the definition of the model components via elemental mass fractions and in the estimation of the COD as a function of the redox equations associated with these elements. This approach makes the automatic calculation of all the stoichiometric coefficients under different measuring units and the study of COD, charge or mass fluxes easier. As an example of its application this methodology was applied to the ADM1 in order to illustrate its usefulness for the analysis of organic matter characterisation, nitrogen release or biogas composition in anaerobic digestion. The application of the methodology for a rigorous integration of different IWA models is proposed for further study.


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