A Flamelet Model with Heat-Loss Effects for Predicting Wall-Heat Transfer in Rocket Engines

Author(s):  
Peter C. Ma ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Matthias Ihme ◽  
Jean-Pierre Hickey
Author(s):  
Carl Hergart ◽  
Norbert Peters

Abstract Due to the wide spectrum of turbulent and chemical length- and time scales occurring in a HSDI diesel engine, capturing the correct physics and chemistry underlying combustion poses a tremendous modeling challenge. The processes related to the two-phase flow in a DI diesel engine add even more complexity to the total modeling effort. The Representative Interactive Flamelet (RIF) model has gained widespread attention owing to its ability of correctly describing ignition, combustion and pollutant formation phenomena. This is achieved by incorporating very detailed chemistry for the gas phase as well as the soot particle growth and oxidation, without imposing any significant computational penalty. The model, which is based on the laminar flamelet concept, treats a turbulent flame as an ensemble of thin, locally one-dimensional flame structures, whose chemistry is fast. A potential explanation for the significant underprediction of part load soot observed in previous studies applying the model is the neglect of wall heat losses in the flamelet chemistry model. By introducing an additional source term in the flamelet temperature equation, directly coupled to the wall heat transfer predicted by the CFD-code, flamelets exposed to walls are assigned heat losses of various magnitudes. Results using the model in three-dimensional simulations of the combustion process in a small-bore direct injection diesel engine indicate that the experimentally observed emissions of soot may have their origin in flame quenching at the relatively cold combustion chamber walls.


AIAA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 2336-2349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Ma ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Matthias Ihme ◽  
Jean-Pierre Hickey

2021 ◽  
pp. 146808742110072
Author(s):  
Karri Keskinen ◽  
Walter Vera-Tudela ◽  
Yuri M Wright ◽  
Konstantinos Boulouchos

Combustion chamber wall heat transfer is a major contributor to efficiency losses in diesel engines. In this context, thermal swing materials (adapting to the surrounding gas temperature) have been pinpointed as a promising mitigative solution. In this study, experiments are carried out in a high-pressure/high-temperature vessel to (a) characterise the wall heat transfer process ensuing from wall impingement of a combusting fuel spray, and (b) evaluate insulative improvements provided by a coating that promotes thermal swing. The baseline experimental condition resembles that of Spray A from the Engine Combustion Network, while additional variations are generated by modifying the ambient temperature as well as the injection pressure and duration. Wall heat transfer and wall temperature measurements are time-resolved and accompanied by concurrent high-speed imaging of natural luminosity. An investigation with an uncoated wall is carried out with several sensor locations around the stagnation point, elucidating sensor-to-sensor variability and setup symmetry. Surface heat flux follows three phases: (i) an initial peak, (ii) a slightly lower plateau dependent on the injection duration, and (iii) a slow decline. In addition to the uncoated reference case, the investigation involves a coating made of porous zirconia, an established thermal swing material. With a coated setup, the projection of surface quantities (heat flux and temperature) from the immersed measurement location requires additional numerical analysis of conjugate heat transfer. Starting from the traces measured beneath the coating, the surface quantities are obtained by solving a one-dimensional inverse heat transfer problem. The present measurements are complemented by CFD simulations supplemented with recent rough-wall models. The surface roughness of the coated specimen is indicated to have a significant impact on the wall heat flux, offsetting the expected benefit from the thermal swing material.


SeMA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Azaïez ◽  
T. Chacón Rebollo ◽  
M. Gómez Mármol ◽  
E. Perracchione ◽  
A. Rincón Casado ◽  
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1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Taghavi ◽  
M. S. Tillack ◽  
H. Madarame

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