Abstract
Precise evaluation of flame surface area plays a pivotal role in the fundamental understanding and accurate modelling of turbulent premixed flames. This necessity is reflected in the requirement for the instantaneous flame area evaluation of the turbulent burning velocity (by making use of Damköhler’s first hypothesis). Moreover, the information regarding flame area is required in the context of flame surface density based modelling, and for determining the wrinkling factor or estimating the efficiency function. Usually flame surface areas in experiments and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) analyses are evaluated differently and the present analysis aims at comparing these approaches by making use of a detailed chemistry DNS database of turbulent, statistically planar flames. It has been found that the flame surface area evaluation is sensitive to the choice of scalar quantity and the isosurface level, and this holds particularly true for two-dimensional evaluations. The conditions, which provide a satisfactory agreement between experimental and numerical approaches in the flame area evaluation, have been identified by a detailed comparative analysis of the usual postprocessing techniques.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Flow, Turbulence and Combustion |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 5 2019 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to EPSRC, UK, the German Research Foundation (DFG,KL1456/5–1; DFG 237267381 – TRR 150) and competitive research funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for financial support. Computational support by ARCHER, Rocket HPC, KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory is also gratefully acknowledged.