Acoustic enhancement of combustion in lifted nonpremixed jet flames

Lifted nonpremixed jet flames are often used in industrial processes and present inherent difficulties such as their reattachment to the burner, blowout, and poor combustion. One solution is to control the jet by acoustic forcing. For flames lifted in the hysteresis zone where anchoring may occur, forcing at high amplitudes and middle frequencies (around 200 Hz) changes the combustion regime and prevents reattachement. The common long yellow plume, due to soot radiation, vanishes. The flame becomes shorter, totally blue and stabilizes at a higher position above the burner. The phenomenon is explained using the results obtained by analyzing the flow dynamics with high-speed laser tomography, laser Doppler anemometry, particle image velocimetry, and Mie scattering techniques. Measurements show that the excitation periodically generates axial velocities higher than the maximum velocity of the hysteresis zone, leading to flame liftoff. Some primary and streamwise eddy vortices similar to natural instabilities develop during the jet deceleration. Contrary to the unexcited case, these structures, disorganized by the superimposition of the forcing wave, lead to quasi-homogeneous turbulence which provides efficient mixing and improves the combustion regime. Finally, the frequency is sufficiently high to avoid excessive fluctuations of the lift-off height and the reattachment to the burner.     

带分流叶片的离心泵叶轮内三维不可压湍流场的数值模拟

对带分流叶片的离心泵叶轮内三维不可压湍流场进行数值模拟。计算采用雷诺时均方程和修正了的 湍流模型,在压强连接的隐式修正法(SIMPLE—C)建立的压力速度校正方程基础上,利用贴体坐标系和交错网格技术进行计算。计算结果揭示了带分流叶片离心泵叶轮内湍流流动的速度分布、压力分布规律,并对增加分流叶片后叶轮内部的流动状况进行了分析和研究,研究结果将对带分流叶片的离心泵进行性能预测和优化设计有指导 意义。     

不同湍流模型对叶片表面换热系数结果的影响

为了比较湍流模型对涡轮叶片外换热计算结果的影响,采用的三种湍流模型对NASA-C3X导向叶片进行了表面换热计算并与实验数据进行了对比,结果表明:边界层流态的转变对换热的影响很显著,缺乏对湍动能发展的控制是影响换热计算结果主要原因;标准的k-ε模型换热计算效果较差,Reynolds Stress模型体现了边界层流动状态的转变对换热影响;研究在不同计算域采用不同湍流模型的计算技术,是一种较好的可行的方案.     

Experimental and computational study on the separation performance of an electrostatic precipitator with curved transvers collecting plates

Aiming at the problems of low collection efficiency of fine particulate matter and large area occupied by existing electrostatic precipitators (ESP), a new type of horizontal electrode ESP is proposed. It has the advantages of accelerating turbulent coalescence, increasing the effective dust collecting area and increasing the particle driving speed. The performance of the new type of ESP is systematic studied through simulation and experiment at the same time, and the results matches well. By comparing the dust removal effect of the horizontal electrode ESP and the conventional ESP, it can be concluded that the horizontal electrode ESP has a better dust removal efficiency, and can still maintain a better dust removal effect under high air velocity. The dust removal efficiency of new ESP can reach above 98% under the experimental conditions.     

Effect of rolling on the flowing and heat transfer characteristic of turbulent flow in sub-channels

The flowing and heat transfer of turbulent flow in typical 4 rod bundles in rolling motion is investigated with LES and URANS. As the rolling period decreases, the average wall shear stress increases, and the frictional resistance increases. The wall shear stress solved by LES is not good enough, while that of URANS is consistent with experiments. The variation of frictional resistance coefficient, Nusselt number and Reynolds stress with rolling amplitude is very weak. In rolling motion, the biggest frictional resistance coefficient is not located in a constant time.     

Assessment of k–ε models using tetrahedral grids to describe the turbulent flow field of a PBT impeller and validation through the PIV technique

In turbulence modeling, the RNG and Realizable models have important improvements in the turbulent production and dissipation terms in comparison to the Standard. The selection of the appropriate turbulence model has an impact on the convergence and solution in STRs, and they are used in mixing, multiphase modeling or as starting solution of transient models as DES and LES. Although there are several studies with the pitched blade turbine(PBT) impeller, most of them used the Standard model as representative of all k–ε models, using structured hexahedral grids composed of low number of cells, and in some cases under axial symmetry assumptions.Accordingly, in this work the assessment of the Standard, RNG and Realizable models to describe the turbulent flow field of this impeller, using the Multiple Reference Frame(MRF) and Sliding Mesh(SM) approaches with tetrahedral domains in dense grids, is presented. This kind of cell elements is especially suitable to reproduce complex geometries. Flow velocities and turbulent parameters were verified experimentally by PIV and torque measurements. The three models were capable of predicting fairly the pumping number, the power number based on torque, and velocities. Although the RNG improved the predictions of the turbulent kinetic energy and dissipation rate, the Realizable model presented better performance for both approaches. All models failed in the prediction of the total dissipation rate, and a dependence of its value on the number of cells for the MRF was found.     

Shallow Turbulent Flows by Video Imaging Method

Shallow turbulent flows were produced in a tank of small thickness to study the friction effects on large-scale turbulent motion of small depth. The tank was constructed of two parallel walls. The space between the parallel walls (4.4, 1.57, and 0.59 cm) was small compared with the height (107 cm) and the width (212 cm) of the tank, and was varied during the experiments for different friction effects. Turbulent flows were produced by the injection of water in the form of starting jets into the tank filled with water. The large-scale turbulent flow in the small space between the walls of the tank is confined to essentially two-dimensional motion, and the motion is retarded by the force of friction. Dye was injected with the source fluid as the tracer for the highly unsteady and quasitwo-dimensional turbulent motion. From the initiation of the turbulent motion at the source to the final interaction of the jets with the tank bottom, the entire sequence of events was recorded by a pair of video cameras. The depth-averaged concentration of the dye was analyzed using the recorded video images.     

Effects of eddy diffusivity in film condensation on a horizontal tube

It is an investigation into turbulent film condensation on a horizontal tube. In order to forecast the results more exactly, a new theory model of local film shear stress (τ / τ_w) is presented in the paper. In the study, four models of different eddy diffusivity are considered. The numerical calculation is obtained by using Visual C⁺⁺. The result shows that among the four models, the difference between the higher value and the lower value of the mean Nusselt number is about 10.1%. Besides, the results developed in the current study are compared with those generated by previous theoretical results. The result shows that the present paper considering film local shear has a higher mean Nusselt number than the previous ones that exclude the film local shear.     

Simulations of spray autoignition and flame establishment with two-dimensional CMC

The unsteady two-dimensional conditional moment closure (CMC) model with first-order closure of the chemistry and supplied with standard models for the conditional convection and turbulent diffusion terms has been interfaced with a commercial engine CFD code and analyzed with two numerical methods, an “exact” calculation with the method of lines and a faster fractional-step method. The aim was to examine the sensitivity of the predictions to the operator splitting errors and to identify the extent to which spatial transport terms are important for spray autoignition problems. Despite the underlying simplifications, solution of the full CMC equations allows a single model to be used for the autoignition, flame propagation (“premixed mode”), and diffusion flame mode of diesel combustion, which makes CMC a good candidate model for practical engine calculations. It was found that (i) the conditional averages have significant spatial gradients before ignition and during the premixed mode and (ii) that the inclusion of physical-space transport affects the calculation of the autoignition delay time, both of which suggest that volume-averaged CMC approaches may be inappropriate for diesel-like problems. A balance of terms in the CMC equation before and after autoignition shows the relative magnitude of spatial transport and allows conjectures on the structure of the premixed phase of diesel combustion. Very good agreement with available experimental data is found concerning ignition delays and the effect of background air turbulence on them.     

小型亚热带半日潮河口中的湍流

在天然河口,污染物的输送是由湍流动量混合驱动的,而弥散的大小却难以被准确地预测。这是由于对河口的湍流结构缺乏基础的认识而造成的。介绍在一个小型的亚热带半日潮河口进行的高频率及连续50 h的湍流实地测量的情况。在研究的浅水(低潮水深小于0．5 m)小型河口中,使用了最适用于这种水体的声学多普勒流速仪进行测量,并进行了完整的后处理工作。河口水流是一个波动的过程,各种宏观流动参数随潮周期和其它大尺度的过程而波动,但是湍流特性是由即时局部流动特性所决定,它们基本不受流动历程的影响,其结构和瞬时变化受多种机理影响。这导致其只与水流剪切力引起的湍流边界层平衡相关。所有湍流特性在潮周期中均有大波动是本次研究数据的一个显著特征,这一特征在此前少有记载,但本次的测量数据与过往数据的一大差别是,数据连续测量的时间长且频率高。这将为波动特性的动量交换系数及积分时间和长尺度提供新的信息,这些湍流特性不应被视为不变的。