Conditional Moment Closure for Turbulent Premixed Flames

Amzin, S and Swaminathan, N and Rogerson, JW and Kent, JH (2012) Conditional Moment Closure for Turbulent Premixed Flames. In: 23rd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, 24-7-2011 to 29-7-2011, University of California, Irvine, USA 1743-1767-1743-1767..

Abstract

The conditional moment closure (CMC) method has been successfully applied to various non-premixed combustion systems in the past, but its application to premixed flames is not fully tested and validated. The main difficulty is associated with the modeling of conditional scalar dissipation rate of the conditioning scalar, the progress variable. A simple algebraic model for the conditional dissipation rate is validated using DNS results of a V-flame. This model along with the standard <I>k</I>- turbulence modeling is used in computations of stoichiometric pilot stabilized Bunsen flames using the RANS-CMC method. A first-order closure is used for the conditional mean reaction rate. The computed non reacting and reacting scalars are in reasonable agreement with the experimental measurements and are consistent with earlier computations using flamelets and transported PDF methods. Sensitivity to chemical kinetic mechanism is also assessed. The results suggest that the CMC may be applied across the regimes of premixed combustion.

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