Analysis of unsteady reacting flows and impact of chemistry description in Large Eddy Simulations of side-dump ramjet combustors
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Among all the undesired phenomena observed in ramjet combustors, combustion instabilities are of foremost importance and predicting them using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is an active research field. While acoustics are naturally captured by compressible LES provided that the proper boundary conditions are applied, combustion/chemistry modelling remains a critical issue and its impact on numerical predictions must still be assessed for complex applications. To do so, two different ramjet LES's are compared here. The first simulation is based on a standard one-step chemistry known to over-estimate the laminar flame speed in fuel rich conditions. The second simulation uses the same scheme but introduces a correction of reaction rates for rich flames to match a detailed mechanism provided by Peters (1993). Even though the two chemical schemes are very similar and very few points burn in rich regimes, distinct limit-cycles are obtained with LES depending on which scheme is used. Results obtained with the standard one-step chemistry exhibit high frequency self-sustained oscillations. Multiple flame fronts are stabilized in the vicinity of the shear layer developing at the exit of the air inlets. When compared to the experiment, the fitted one-step scheme yields better predictions than the standard scheme. With the fitted scheme, the flame is detached from the air inlets and stabilizes in the regions identified in the experiment (Ristori et al. (2005), Heid and Ristori (2003), Heid and Ristori (2005), Ristori et al. (1999)). LES and experiments exhibit all main low-frequency modes including the first longitudinal acoustic mode. The high frequencies excited with the standard scheme are damped with the fitted scheme. The chemical scheme is found, for this ramjet burner, to have a strong impact on the predicted stability: approximate chemical schemes even in a limited range of equivalence ratio can lead to the occurence of non-physical combustion oscillations. (author)
- OSTI ID:
- 21248857
- Journal Information:
- Combustion and Flame, Vol. 157, Issue 1; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved; ISSN 0010-2180
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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