The numerical simulation of modern aero-engine combustion chamber needs accurate description of the interaction between turbulence and chemical reaction mechanism. The Large Eddy Simulation(LES) method with the Transp...The numerical simulation of modern aero-engine combustion chamber needs accurate description of the interaction between turbulence and chemical reaction mechanism. The Large Eddy Simulation(LES) method with the Transported Probability Density Function(TPDF) turbulence combustion model is promising in engineering applications. In flame region, the impact of chemical reaction should be considered in TPDF molecular mixing model. Based on pioneer research, three new TPDF turbulence-chemistry dual time scale molecular mixing models were proposed tentatively by adding the chemistry time scale in molecular mixing model for nonpremixed flame. The Aero-Engine Combustor Simulation Code(AECSC) which is based on LES-TPDF method was combined with the three new models. Then the Sandia laboratory's methane-air jet flames: Flame D and Flame E were simulated. Transient simulation results show that all the three new models can predict the instantaneous combustion flow pattern of the jet flames. Furthermore,the average scalar statistical results were compared with the experimental data. The simulation result of the new TPDF arithmetic mean modification model is the closest to the experimental data:the average error in Flame D is 7.6% and 6.6% in Flame E. The extinction and re-ignition phenomena of the jet flames especially Flame E were captured. The turbulence time scale and the chemistry time scale are in different order in the whole flow field. The dual time scale TPDF combustion model has ability to deal with both the turbulence effect and the chemistry reaction effect, as well as their interaction more accurately for nonpremixed flames.展开更多
Turbulence affects both combustion and NO formation. Fluctuation correlations are ideally used for quantitative analysis. From the instantaneous chemical reaction rate expression,ignoring the third-order correlation t...Turbulence affects both combustion and NO formation. Fluctuation correlations are ideally used for quantitative analysis. From the instantaneous chemical reaction rate expression,ignoring the third-order correlation terms, the averaged reaction rate will have four terms, including the term of averaged-variable product, a concentration fluctuation correlation term, and temperature-concentration fluctuation correlation term. If the reaction-rate coefficient is denoted as K, the temperature fluctuation would be included in the K fluctuation. In order to quantitatively study the effect of turbulence on NO formation in methane-air swirling combustion, various turbulencechemistry models are tested. The magnitudes of various correlations and their effects on the time-averaged reaction rate are calculated and analyzed, and the simulation results are compared with the experimental measurement data. The results show that among various correlation moments, the correlation between the reaction-rate coefficient K fluctuation with the concentration fluctuation is most important and is a strong nonlinear term.展开更多
The liquid droplet evaporation character is important for not only combustion chamber design process but also high-accuracy spray combustion simulation. In this paper, the suspended droplets＇ evaporation character wa...The liquid droplet evaporation character is important for not only combustion chamber design process but also high-accuracy spray combustion simulation. In this paper, the suspended droplets＇ evaporation character was measured in a quiescent high-temperature environment by micro high-speed camera system. The gasoline and kerosene experimental results are consistent with the reference data. Methanol, common kerosene and aviation kerosene droplet evaporation characteristics, as well as their evaporation rate changing with temperature, were obtained. The evaporation rate experimental data were compared with the prediction result of Ranz-Marshall boiling temperature model（RMB）, Ranz-Marshall low-temperature model（RML）, drift flux model（DFM）, mass analogy model（MAM）, and stagnant film model（SFM）. The disparity between the experimental data and the model prediction results was mainly caused by the neglect of the natural convection effect, which was never introduced into the droplet evaporation concept. A new droplet evaporation model with consideration of natural convection buoyancy force effect was proposed in this paper. Under the experimental conditions in this paper, the calculation results of the new droplet evaporation model were agreed with the experimental data for kerosene, methanol and other fuels, with less than 20% relative deviations. The relative deviations between the new evaporation model predictions for kerosene and the experimental data from the references were within 10%.展开更多
In order to investigate the high-temperature evaporation characteristics of multicomponent liquid fuel,three kinds of blended fuel:n-heptane/n-decane/RP-3 aviation kerosene-ethanol were experimentally studied with and...In order to investigate the high-temperature evaporation characteristics of multicomponent liquid fuel,three kinds of blended fuel:n-heptane/n-decane/RP-3 aviation kerosene-ethanol were experimentally studied with and without forced convection.Further,based on zerodiffusion and infinite diffusion concept,this study expanded Thick Exchange Layer evaporation model with Natural Convection effect(NC-TEL)to multicomponent liquid fuels.The experimental results show that the droplet evaporation rate increases significantly with the increase of ambient temperature.Higher temperature leads to more significant relationships between the composition ratio and the evaporation rate.The effect of forced convection is not obviously under the circumstance in this paper.Then,the evaporation models were validated by experimental data.In general,the new NC-TEL model behaves better than the Ranz-Marshall(R-M)model,and the prediction accuracy at high temperature is improved by 8%to 35%.In lower temperature conditions,the prediction of zero-diffusion NC-TEL model is better than the infinite diffusion NC-TEL model.In high-temperature conditions,for n-heptane-ethanol droplet,the predictions of NC-TEL model are accurate,but for n-decane/RP-3 aviation kerosene-ethanol,the predictions are lower than experimental results.This may be caused by the micro-explosion phenomenon and the Marangoni phenomenon.展开更多
Swept blades have been widely used in the transonic fan/compressor of aircraft engines with the aids of 3D CFD simulation since the design concept of controlling the shock structure was firstly proposed and successful...Swept blades have been widely used in the transonic fan/compressor of aircraft engines with the aids of 3D CFD simulation since the design concept of controlling the shock structure was firstly proposed and successfully tested by Dr.Wennerstrom in the 1980s.However,some disadvantage phenomenon has also been induced by excessively 3D blade geometries on the structure stress insufficiency,vibration and reliability.Much confusion in the procedure of design practice leading us to recognize a new view on the flow mechanism of sweep aerodynamical induction: the new radial equilibrium established by the influence of inlet circumferential fluctuation(CF) changes the inlet flows of blading and induces the performance modification of axial fans/compressors blade.The view is verified by simplified models through numerical simulation and circumferentially averaged analysis in the present paper.The results show that the CF source items which originate from design parameters,such as the spanwise distributions of the loading and blading geometries,contribute to the changing of averaged incidence spanwise distribution,and further more affect the performance of axial fans/compressors with swept blades.展开更多
A 15-stage axial-flow compressor utilized in steel industry was studied in this paper. All the stator's stagger angles of the compressor are variable to ensure the multistage compressor operate effectively within ...A 15-stage axial-flow compressor utilized in steel industry was studied in this paper. All the stator's stagger angles of the compressor are variable to ensure the multistage compressor operate effectively within a wide range of flow rate and meanwhile satisfy the demand for sufficient pressure ratio, adiabatic efficiency and stall margin. Three in all different base-settings of stator's stagger angles were presented and commercial CFD software was applied to obtain the overall performance characteristics. The results showed that both of the optimized base-settings improved the performances both in summer and winter conditions, although the adiabatic efficiency was somewhat decreased. Taking incidence angle and stage loading into consideration, differences among the three cases were analyzed in detail. On the basis of numerical computations, the performance could be effectively improved through adjusting the base-setting of stator's stagger angles.展开更多
It is one of the most efficient ways to greatly improve aero-engines' performance by utilizing vaneless counterrotating turbine(VCRT) technology.To supply sufficient power,VCRT turns to be high Mach number,large f...It is one of the most efficient ways to greatly improve aero-engines' performance by utilizing vaneless counterrotating turbine(VCRT) technology.To supply sufficient power,VCRT turns to be high Mach number,large flow angle at high-pressure turbine(HPT) rotor exit,and low blade camber angle,which increase difficulties to turbine design.As the axial velocity ratio of HPT rotor is much larger than the conventional ones,the optimal selection of VCRT velocity triangles based on theoretical analysis is developed,and how the efficiency varied by HPT stator/rotor exit flow angle is also figured out.The key points to design a high efficient practicable VCRT are to select velocity triangles that are characterized by low flow coefficient,high outlet flow angle and large axial velocity ratio of HPT rotor.Meanwhile,performance comparison between convergent blade and convergent-divergent blade shows the latter is more appropriate for VCRT.展开更多
基金co-supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2017YFB0202400 and 2017YFB0202402)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.91741125)the Project of Newton International Fellowship Alumnus from Royal Society(No.AL120003)
文摘The numerical simulation of modern aero-engine combustion chamber needs accurate description of the interaction between turbulence and chemical reaction mechanism. The Large Eddy Simulation(LES) method with the Transported Probability Density Function(TPDF) turbulence combustion model is promising in engineering applications. In flame region, the impact of chemical reaction should be considered in TPDF molecular mixing model. Based on pioneer research, three new TPDF turbulence-chemistry dual time scale molecular mixing models were proposed tentatively by adding the chemistry time scale in molecular mixing model for nonpremixed flame. The Aero-Engine Combustor Simulation Code(AECSC) which is based on LES-TPDF method was combined with the three new models. Then the Sandia laboratory's methane-air jet flames: Flame D and Flame E were simulated. Transient simulation results show that all the three new models can predict the instantaneous combustion flow pattern of the jet flames. Furthermore,the average scalar statistical results were compared with the experimental data. The simulation result of the new TPDF arithmetic mean modification model is the closest to the experimental data:the average error in Flame D is 7.6% and 6.6% in Flame E. The extinction and re-ignition phenomena of the jet flames especially Flame E were captured. The turbulence time scale and the chemistry time scale are in different order in the whole flow field. The dual time scale TPDF combustion model has ability to deal with both the turbulence effect and the chemistry reaction effect, as well as their interaction more accurately for nonpremixed flames.
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos:51106006,51266008)the Newton International Fellowship Alumnus from Royal Society of UK(No.AL120003)the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(2012ZB51022)
文摘Turbulence affects both combustion and NO formation. Fluctuation correlations are ideally used for quantitative analysis. From the instantaneous chemical reaction rate expression,ignoring the third-order correlation terms, the averaged reaction rate will have four terms, including the term of averaged-variable product, a concentration fluctuation correlation term, and temperature-concentration fluctuation correlation term. If the reaction-rate coefficient is denoted as K, the temperature fluctuation would be included in the K fluctuation. In order to quantitatively study the effect of turbulence on NO formation in methane-air swirling combustion, various turbulencechemistry models are tested. The magnitudes of various correlations and their effects on the time-averaged reaction rate are calculated and analyzed, and the simulation results are compared with the experimental measurement data. The results show that among various correlation moments, the correlation between the reaction-rate coefficient K fluctuation with the concentration fluctuation is most important and is a strong nonlinear term.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51106006)
文摘The liquid droplet evaporation character is important for not only combustion chamber design process but also high-accuracy spray combustion simulation. In this paper, the suspended droplets＇ evaporation character was measured in a quiescent high-temperature environment by micro high-speed camera system. The gasoline and kerosene experimental results are consistent with the reference data. Methanol, common kerosene and aviation kerosene droplet evaporation characteristics, as well as their evaporation rate changing with temperature, were obtained. The evaporation rate experimental data were compared with the prediction result of Ranz-Marshall boiling temperature model（RMB）, Ranz-Marshall low-temperature model（RML）, drift flux model（DFM）, mass analogy model（MAM）, and stagnant film model（SFM）. The disparity between the experimental data and the model prediction results was mainly caused by the neglect of the natural convection effect, which was never introduced into the droplet evaporation concept. A new droplet evaporation model with consideration of natural convection buoyancy force effect was proposed in this paper. Under the experimental conditions in this paper, the calculation results of the new droplet evaporation model were agreed with the experimental data for kerosene, methanol and other fuels, with less than 20% relative deviations. The relative deviations between the new evaporation model predictions for kerosene and the experimental data from the references were within 10%.
基金co-supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2017YFB0202400 and 2017YFB0202402)the National Natural Science Foundaion of China(No.91741125)。
文摘In order to investigate the high-temperature evaporation characteristics of multicomponent liquid fuel,three kinds of blended fuel:n-heptane/n-decane/RP-3 aviation kerosene-ethanol were experimentally studied with and without forced convection.Further,based on zerodiffusion and infinite diffusion concept,this study expanded Thick Exchange Layer evaporation model with Natural Convection effect(NC-TEL)to multicomponent liquid fuels.The experimental results show that the droplet evaporation rate increases significantly with the increase of ambient temperature.Higher temperature leads to more significant relationships between the composition ratio and the evaporation rate.The effect of forced convection is not obviously under the circumstance in this paper.Then,the evaporation models were validated by experimental data.In general,the new NC-TEL model behaves better than the Ranz-Marshall(R-M)model,and the prediction accuracy at high temperature is improved by 8%to 35%.In lower temperature conditions,the prediction of zero-diffusion NC-TEL model is better than the infinite diffusion NC-TEL model.In high-temperature conditions,for n-heptane-ethanol droplet,the predictions of NC-TEL model are accurate,but for n-decane/RP-3 aviation kerosene-ethanol,the predictions are lower than experimental results.This may be caused by the micro-explosion phenomenon and the Marangoni phenomenon.
基金Financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number:51236001)
文摘Swept blades have been widely used in the transonic fan/compressor of aircraft engines with the aids of 3D CFD simulation since the design concept of controlling the shock structure was firstly proposed and successfully tested by Dr.Wennerstrom in the 1980s.However,some disadvantage phenomenon has also been induced by excessively 3D blade geometries on the structure stress insufficiency,vibration and reliability.Much confusion in the procedure of design practice leading us to recognize a new view on the flow mechanism of sweep aerodynamical induction: the new radial equilibrium established by the influence of inlet circumferential fluctuation(CF) changes the inlet flows of blading and induces the performance modification of axial fans/compressors blade.The view is verified by simplified models through numerical simulation and circumferentially averaged analysis in the present paper.The results show that the CF source items which originate from design parameters,such as the spanwise distributions of the loading and blading geometries,contribute to the changing of averaged incidence spanwise distribution,and further more affect the performance of axial fans/compressors with swept blades.
文摘A 15-stage axial-flow compressor utilized in steel industry was studied in this paper. All the stator's stagger angles of the compressor are variable to ensure the multistage compressor operate effectively within a wide range of flow rate and meanwhile satisfy the demand for sufficient pressure ratio, adiabatic efficiency and stall margin. Three in all different base-settings of stator's stagger angles were presented and commercial CFD software was applied to obtain the overall performance characteristics. The results showed that both of the optimized base-settings improved the performances both in summer and winter conditions, although the adiabatic efficiency was somewhat decreased. Taking incidence angle and stage loading into consideration, differences among the three cases were analyzed in detail. On the basis of numerical computations, the performance could be effectively improved through adjusting the base-setting of stator's stagger angles.
基金carried out under contract for the National Natural Science Foundation of China as part of the Free Application Project (No. 50776003)
文摘It is one of the most efficient ways to greatly improve aero-engines' performance by utilizing vaneless counterrotating turbine(VCRT) technology.To supply sufficient power,VCRT turns to be high Mach number,large flow angle at high-pressure turbine(HPT) rotor exit,and low blade camber angle,which increase difficulties to turbine design.As the axial velocity ratio of HPT rotor is much larger than the conventional ones,the optimal selection of VCRT velocity triangles based on theoretical analysis is developed,and how the efficiency varied by HPT stator/rotor exit flow angle is also figured out.The key points to design a high efficient practicable VCRT are to select velocity triangles that are characterized by low flow coefficient,high outlet flow angle and large axial velocity ratio of HPT rotor.Meanwhile,performance comparison between convergent blade and convergent-divergent blade shows the latter is more appropriate for VCRT.
