Large Eddy Simulation of a dual swirl gas turbine combustor: Flame/flow structures and stabilisation under thermoacoustically stable and unstable conditions

ZX Chen, I Langella, N Swaminathan, M Stöhr… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A laboratory gas turbine model combustor with dual-swirler configuration is investigated
using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with a flamelet subgrid combustion model. Two partially …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic modelling of subgrid scalar dissipation rate in premixed and partially premixed flames with differential filter

G Ferrante, ZX Chen, I Langella - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Large eddy simulation (LES) paradigms are used in the present work to predict premixed
and partially premixed turbulent flames with flamelets based thermochemistry and presumed …

Prediction of local extinctions in piloted jet flames with inhomogeneous inlets using unstrained flamelets

ZX Chen, I Langella, RS Barlow, N Swaminathan - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-regime turbulent combustion modelling remains challenging and is explored with
occurrence of local extinction in this study. A partially premixed model based on unstrained …

Lean flame root dynamics in a gas turbine model combustor

JC Massey, ZX Chen… - Combustion Science and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A swirl-stabilised flame close to blow-off conditions in a gas turbine model
combustor is investigated using large eddy simulation. The sub-grid combustion is modelled …

Differential diffusion modelling for LES of premixed and partially premixed flames with presumed FDF

G Ferrante, G Eitelberg, I Langella - Combustion Theory and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Large eddy simulations (LES) with flamelet and presumed filtered density function closure
are used to simulate turbulent premixed and partially premixed hydrogen flames. Different …

Modelling heat loss effects in the large eddy simulation of a lean swirl-stabilised flame

JC Massey, ZX Chen, N Swaminathan - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2021 - Springer
The flame in a gas turbine model combustor close to blow-off is studied using large eddy
simulation with the objective of investigating the sensitivity of including different heat loss …

A scaling law for the recirculation zone length behind a bluff body in reacting flows

JC Massey, I Langella, N Swaminathan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
The recirculation zone length behind a bluff body is influenced by the turbulence intensity at
the base of the body in isothermal flows and also the heat release and its interaction with …

Effects of hydrogen enrichment on thermoacoustic and helical instabilities in swirl stabilised partially premixed flames

AD Kumar, JC Massey, I Boxx… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2024 - Springer
The effects of hydrogen enrichment on flame and flow dynamics of a swirl-stabilised partially
premixed methane-air flame are studied using large eddy simulation. The sub-grid reaction …

Period-2 thermoacoustics in a swirl-stabilised partially premixed flame computed using large eddy simulation

AD Kumar, JC Massey, M Stöhr, W Meier… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2023 - Springer
A partially premixed swirl-stabilised flame under thermoacoustically unstable conditions is
studied using large eddy simulation with an unstrained flamelet model for the filtered …

Influence of fuel plenum on thermoacoustic oscillations inside a swirl combustor

ZX Chen, N Swaminathan - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Large eddy simulation (LES) of a lean methane/air flame exhibiting self-excited
thermoacoustic oscillations inside a swirl combustor is performed. The influence of fuel …