(UKCTRF) UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows
Lead Research Organisation:
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Mechanical Engineering
Abstract
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Publications
Alzwayi A
(2014)
Large eddy simulation of transition of free convection flow over an inclined upward facing heated plate
in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
Tang H
(2020)
A methodology for coupling DNS and discretised population balance for modelling turbulent precipitation
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Bulat G
(2015)
Large eddy simulations of isothermal confined swirling flow in an industrial gas-turbine
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Navarro-Martinez S
(2014)
Large eddy simulation of spray atomization with a probability density function method
in International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Fredrich D
(2023)
Longitudinal and azimuthal thermo-acoustic instabilities in an industrial gas turbine combustor operating at elevated pressure
in International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics
Gong Y.
(2022)
Large Eddy Simulation of compositional indirect noises generated in a non-isentropic nozzle
in Internoise 2022 - 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering
Han X
(2018)
The Effect of Stratification Ratio on the Macrostructure of Stratified Swirl Flames: Experimental and Numerical Study
in Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
Tsagkaridis M
(2022)
Analysis of turbulent coagulation in a jet with discretised population balance and DNS
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Tianjie Ding
(2021)
Combustion and Flame
in Machine learning tabulation of thermochemistry in turbulent combustion: An approach based on hybrid flamelet/random data and multiple multilayer perceptrons
Ren S
(2022)
Stabilization mechanism revelation of a novel vortex-tube combustion technique: LES with sgs-pdf approach
in Physics of Fluids
| Description | This is a consortium utilising the HPC computer, Archer to study turbulent reacting flows. Since around 95% of current energy generation and transport is fuelled by the combustion of fossil fuels, a large proportion of which are, in future, likely to be be replaced by renewable fuels - a situation that is likely to remain for the foreseeable future - the subject has wide ranging and practically important applications. |
| Exploitation Route | Through publications in the archival scientific literature and via presentations at conferences and Symposia. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Energy Transport |
| URL | Http://www.ukctrf.co.uk |
| Description | The stochastic fields method for solving the evolution equation for the joint pdf of the chemical species mass fractions needed to describe reaction in a turbulent flow has been adopted by Rolls-Royce Aero-engines and incorporated into their in-house Large Eddy simulation code PRECIS-UNS. THe method has also be used in conjunction with the in-house CFD code Boffin-LES by Siemens Industrial Gas Turbines and GE(Switzerland). The method provides an accurate means of accounting for turbulence-chemistry that is needed in the design of efficient low pollutant emissions gas turbine combustion chambers. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | Advanced Gas Turbine cycles for high efficiency and sustainable future conventional generation |
| Amount | £971,987 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M015300/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2015 |
| End | 11/2018 |
| Description | Clear Skies: Dreamcode |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01-620143 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 11/2014 |
| End | 11/2016 |
| Description | LES of industrial gas turbines |
| Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Siemens AG |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 11/2011 |
| End | 10/2015 |
| Description | Combustion LES |
| Organisation | General Electric |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Simulation of Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers |
| Collaborator Contribution | The provision of experimental results |
| Impact | Scientific publications |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Compressible LES |
| Organisation | Siemens AG |
| Department | Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of a compressible LES method for simulatinf Therm-acoustic instabilities |
| Collaborator Contribution | The provision of measured data |
| Impact | Scientific publications |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Nano Particles in Turbulent Flow |
| Organisation | ETH Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Simulations of turbulent flows laden with nano particles |
| Collaborator Contribution | A complementary experimental study is being undertaken |
| Impact | None to date |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Soot Formation |
| Organisation | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Simulation of Soot formation in Turbulent Flames |
| Collaborator Contribution | A complementary study of soot formation is being undertaken |
| Impact | None to date |
| Start Year | 2018 |