A RANS flamelet-progress-variable method for computing reacting flows of real-gas mixtures
This paper provides an efficient numerical method for solving reacting flows of industrial interest in the presence of significant real-gas effects. The method combines a state-of-the-art solver of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations - equipped with the low-Reynolds number k - omega turbulence closure - with a combustion flamelet-progress-variable approach. A real-gas model as well as a detailed kinetic scheme are used to generate the flamelet library. The method is tested versus several applications chosen to demonstrate the importance of the real-gas effects and of the kinetic scheme for computing high-pressure combustion. The major contribution of the paper is to provide a single-phase approach which solves turbulent reacting real-gas flows at a computational cost comparable with that of the simulation of a non-reacting How thanks to the use of the flamelet library. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
high-pressure combustion single-phase approach liquid-rocket engine combustion chambers