High-fidelity simulations of turbulent combustion relevant to gas turbines and compression ignition engines

与燃气轮机和压燃式发动机相关的湍流燃烧的高保真模拟

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-04309
• 负责人: Savard, Bruno
• 金额: $ 2.7万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=714769
• 关键词: fidelity; simulations; turbulent; combustion; relevant

It is unlikely that gas turbines (GTs) and compression ignition (CI) engines will be displaced from the transportation and energy sectors within decades to come as they provide unmatched levels of energy and power density and are highly suitable to complement intermittent renewables (e.g., wind turbines, solar). Despite continuous improvements, GTs and CI engines suffer from particulate matter (PM), NOx, CO2, and unburnt hydrocarbon (UHC) emissions. In the current environmental, economical and political context, it is essential for engine manufacturers to drastically reduce these undesirable pollutants, while increasing fuel flexibility and efficiency, but this challenging task is constrained by our poor understanding of the highly complex combustion processes involved in these engines. Historically, experimental studies have only provided qualitative results at GT and CI engine conditions due to the extremely challenging environments (optical access, high pressure, etc.). As a result, despite their importance, the mechanisms that control the combustion process and pollutant formation remain superficially understood. Direct numerical simulation (DNS), a high-fidelity simulation approach that resolves all relevant time and length scales of the turbulent combustion process, has only recently emerged as an alternative to unravel these complex mechanisms. In the proposed research, DNS will be used to explore key scientific questions that currently limit the potential of GT and CI engine strategies to reduce pollutant emissions. A first portion of the program will focus on GT combustion. To reduce CO2 emissions and to benefit from the growing alternative fuel market, hydrogen is being used as a fuel additive. However, the high reactivity of hydrogen changes completely the combustion dynamics. It is unclear what role intense turbulence (relevant to GT operating conditions) plays on these dynamics, especially at high pressure and temperature conditions, which has been little explored fundamentally. In this context, a series of DNS will be conducted to expose the effects of fuel composition, thermochemical conditions and turbulence intensity on the structure/stabilization and NOx formation of turbulent flames at GT conditions. The second portion will address the stabilization mechanism of jet flames at CI engine conditions. These flames ignite, develop, and stabilize at a distance away from the fuel injector, which controls the amount of fuel-air mixing prior to combustion and, as a result, the level of pollutants produced (PM and UHC). As little is understood about the complex stabilization mechanism, CI engines suffer from fuel flexibility. The proposed DNS will first explore the sensitivity of the stabilization mechanism of CI jet flames to important in-cylinder controlling parameters (e.g., temperature and exhaust gas dilution) and fuel effects will be investigated with a focus on alternative fuels such as bio-diesel.

燃气轮机（GTS）和压缩点火（CI）发动机不太可能在未来几十年内从运输和能量部门中流离失所，因为它们提供了无与伦比的能量和功率密度，并且非常适合补充间歇性可再生能源（例如，风力涡轮机，Solar）。尽管有持续的改进，但GTS和CI发动机遭受了颗粒物（PM），NOX，CO2和未燃烧的碳氢化合物（UHC）排放的影响。在当前的环境，经济和政治背景下，发动机制造商必须大幅度减少这些不良污染物，同时提高燃料灵活性和效率，但是这项挑战性的任务受到我们对这些发动机涉及高度复杂燃烧过程的不良理解的限制。从历史上看，由于环境极具挑战性的环境（光学通道，高压等），实验研究仅在GT和CI发动机条件下提供了定性结果。结果，尽管它们的重要性，但控制燃烧过程和污染物形成的机制仍在表面上了解。直接数值模拟（DNS）是一种高保真模拟方法，它可以解决湍流燃烧过程的所有相关时间和长度尺度，直到最近才成为揭示这些复杂机制的替代方法。在拟议的研究中，DNS将用于探索目前限制GT和CI发动机策略减少污染物排放的潜力的关键科学问题。 该程序的第一部分将重点放在GT燃烧上。为了减少二氧化碳排放并受益于不断增长的替代燃料市场，氢被用作燃料添加剂。但是，氢的高反应性完全改变了燃烧动力学。目前尚不清楚在这些动力学方面发挥什么作用强度（与GT工作条件相关），尤其是在高压和温度条件下，从根本上讲几乎没有探索。在这种情况下，将进行一系列DNS，以暴露燃料组成，热化学条件和湍流强度对GT条件下湍流火焰的结构/稳定性和NOX形成的影响。第二部分将解决在CI发动机条件下喷气火焰的稳定机制。这些火焰点燃，发展和稳定在距燃料喷油器的距离之遥，该燃料在燃烧前控制燃油空气混合的量，并因此产生的污染物水平（PM和UHC）。关于复杂稳定机制的了解很少，CI发动机遭受了燃料灵活性的影响。提出的DNS将首先探讨CI喷射火焰对重要缸内控制参数（例如温度和废气稀释）的稳定机制的敏感性，并将研究燃料效应，重点是对替代燃料（例如生物柴油）。