HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR UNITED KINGDOM CONSORTIUM ON TURBULENT REACTING FLOWS (UKCTRF)
Lead Research Organisation:
Loughborough University
Department Name: Wolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng
Abstract
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Publications
Abdel-Raheem M
(2015)
Large eddy simulation of hydrogen-air premixed flames in a small scale combustion chamber
in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Abdel-Raheem MA
(2014)
Numerical Experiments of Hydrogen-Air Premixed Flames
in International Journal of Research in Engineering and Science (IJRES)
Abdel-Raheem MA
(2014)
Numerical experiments of Hydrogen-Air Premixed Flames
in Int. Journal of Research in Eng. and Science
Akaotsu S
(2020)
Application of flamelet/progress-variable approach to the large eddy simulation of a turbulent jet flame of pulverized coals
in Advanced Powder Technology
Akaotsu S
(2020)
Analysis of flame structure using detailed chemistry and applicability of flamelet/progress variable model in the laminar counter-flow diffusion flames of pulverized coals
in Advanced Powder Technology
Akaotsu S
(2020)
Effects of infinitely fast chemistry on combustion behavior of coaxial diffusion flame predicted by large eddy simulation
in Fuel Processing Technology
Beard T
(2015)
Numerical Simulation of Hydrogen Discharge in a Partially Enclosed Space
in Energy Procedia
Beard Thomas
(2017)
CFD modelling of hydrogen safety aspects for a residential refuelling system
Beavis N
(2016)
Impingement characteristics of an early injection gasoline direct injection engine: A numerical study
in International Journal of Engine Research
Beavis N
(2016)
Numerical Simulations of a GDI Engine Flow Using LES and POD
| Description | A group of leading academics from fifteen United Kingdom institutions have been joined by internationally recognised experts to form the UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows (UKCTRF). As a consortium, they will make a focussed effort to address the global and UK challenges of energy efficiency, environmental friendliness and high-fidelity fire safety. This consortium was launched in January 2014 and it will run until January 2019. Thus, it is still early for this consortium to deliver substantial key findings and research outcomes, but the research currently under way will address the following objectives in the near future: -World-leading computational research on turbulent reacting flows in the UK using HPC. - DNS of premixed, non-premixed, stratified flames and particle-laden turbulent reacting flows. -Utilisation of physical insight obtained from DNS to develop high-fidelity models for RANS and LES simulations. -Highly parallelised RANS/LES codes with high-fidelity combustion models which can contribute routinely to the design of highly-efficient, environmentally-friendly IC engines, gas turbines and reliable improved fire-safety measures. -Making the high-fidelity computational tools available to UK industries so that they can be used to design a new generation of combustion devices to exploit the expanding world-wide energy market and contribute to the UK economy. -Creating a forum for collaborative and complementary turbulent reacting flow research in the UK -A platform to share HPC expertise and sustain internationally-competitive UK computational reacting flow research. -To support both externally funded (e.g. EU projects and industrial) projects and internal (e.g. university PhD) projects, which do not have dedicated HPC support of their own. -Development of highly-skilled man-power in the form of RAs and PhD students, who in turn are expected to contribute positively to the UK economy and UK turbulent reacting flow research for several years to come. -To develop a forward-looking collaborative software development strategy to efficiently exploit future HPC hardware. |
| Exploitation Route | UKCTRF will provide a platform for a large number of research-active UK-based combustion scientists who will benefit from the stimulating and collaborative environment it offers. The consortium will manage the HPC resources on behalf of its members, reducing the risk of not using the resource and eliminating the need to apply individually which will simplify EPSRC's workload in dealing with individual applications for computing resources. By pooling computing resources together and allocating them whenever individual needs arise, the national HPC facilities will be used more efficiently. By working collaboratively in a consortium the members will also be able to reduce duplication and tackle grander challenges than any one individual can attempt. The proposed consortium will offer both fundamental physical understanding and improved modelling methodologies for turbulent reacting flows. The knowledge gained from the research activities will contribute to the design cycle of new generation energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly IC engines and gas turbines and minimise the effects of atmospheric chemical pollution, accidental releases, fires and explosions. Benefits accrued from the research activities in this consortium will contribute to all areas of reacting flow analysis and combustion modelling. The research outcomes will be disseminated through participation of the consortium members in international conferences (e.g. International Combustion Symposium, European Combustion Meeting, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) meeting, ASME Gas Turbine meetings etc.) and their publication in reputed scientific journals (e.g. Combustion and Flame, Physics of Fluids etc.). The research will also be presented by the members in the meetings of the British Combustion Institute and the Institute of Physics to attract attention from the automotive, gas turbine and fire-safety industries in the UK. The DNS and LES databases resulting from the project will be made available to other interested researchers upon request. A website for data-exchange and documentation, and specific results will be made available for public download. The RAs and PhD students will also benefit greatly from the annual review meetings and the proposed workshops, which will give them excellent networking opportunities to forge future collaborations with UKCTRF members who are the UK's leading computational combustion experts. This will not only be beneficial for the learning experiences of RAs and PhD students but also will have an impact on recruitment with the opportunity for industrial representatives to see the latest work of many talented researchers at UKCTRF events. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Education,Energy,Environment,Transport |
| URL | http://www.ukctrf.co.uk/ |
| Description | The UKCTRF consortium was launched in January 2014 and it was active until January 2019. The vision of UKCTRF is closely aligned with the 'Energy' research theme of EPSRC under the headings of Energy Efficiency and Conventional Generation. The major beneficiaries of this work are the UK based industries (e.g. Rolls Royce, Shell and Siemens etc.) which are engaged in developing new concepts for designing low-pollution and high efficiency IC engines and gas turbines. Moreover, fire related research in the consortium will minimise the effects of atmospheric chemical pollution, accidental releases, fires and explosions, which in turn will lead to the development of improved fire-safety and reliable fire-resistant structures. Given the long term nature of the design-cycle of IC engines, gas turbines, and fire-resistant structures, as well as the time required to build up enough confidence in the community, it is likely that the impact of this project, in terms of new product and wealth creation in the UK, will be felt in a time-scale of 10-20 years. The technological advancements of this consortium will also help in designing energy-efficient and environment-friendly combustors especially for the UK based industries (e.g. Rolls Royce, Siemens, Shell etc.), which will also bring a long-term benefit (in a time scale of 10-20 years) for society. The data will be shared to other UK research groups upon request, and will play a significant role in devising and calibrating new models to carry out high-fidelity LES and RANS simulations. Finally, the CFD software community, who use state-of-the-art combustion RANS/LES models in their codes to yield high-fidelity predictions, will also be interested in this work and ultimately this benefit will be realised in 5 -10 years' time-scale. This consortium lays substantial emphasis on developing a highly skilled UK-based workforce in the form of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students who will eventually carry the expertise gained in the course of the project in their future roles. This benefit will be felt immediately as many young researchers (PhD students and RA) are already getting valuable experience of using High Performance Computing to address challenging problems of turbulent reacting flows which, in turn, is directly linked to the issues of energy efficiency, environment friendliness and improved fire-safety. Addressing these issues will therefore have significant socio-economic impact. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Education,Energy,Environment,Transport |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | Collaborative Research with Tohoku Uiversity Japan |
| Organisation | Tohoku University |
| Department | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have established a collaborative research link with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan to work in the area of Turbulent Combustion Modelling. Professor Yohsuke Matsushita worked with our group as a visiting academic for a year and a postgraduate student from Tohoku University also spent time with our group and worked on developing various numerical methods. These include laminar flamelet models, FPV, UFPV and FGM. Professor Malalasekera also visited Tohoku University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expert knowledge on Turbulent Combustion modelling is excahged and joint user codes are being devloped. |
| Impact | Reseach publications and code development is ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Academiv visit to |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academic visit by a member of the research team to, Combustion Technology Group, at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands to study and learn the Flamelet Generated Manifolds (FGM) method for turbulent combustion simulations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Guest Lecture and Seminar at Tohoku University, Sendai Japan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Invited guest lecture at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan by Professor W. Malalasekera outlining turbulent combustion modelling reserach at Loughborough University UK including research on Hydrogen safety. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Guest Lecture at Steel Research Laboratory, JFE Steel Corporation, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A guest lecture at the Steel Research Laboratory, JFE Steel Corporation, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan. The lecture explained latest turbulent combustion modelling research undertaken by the Loughborough research group including Hydrogen safety research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Keynote lecture - Renewable Energy and Role of Hydrogen as a Future Fuel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a Keynote Lecture at the conference "4th International Conference of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Biotechnology ICCEIB 2018" held in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia, in August 2018. The conference was organised by the University of Pahang, Malaysia and attended by more than 200 international participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://icceib.ump.edu.my/index.php/en/ |
| Description | Keynote lecture at the 28th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP28) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An invited Keynote lecture on "Application of Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques in Combustion Modelling" was conducted at the 28th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena - 2017, held at the University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.pdn.ac.lk/istp28/ |
| Description | Keynote lecture at the ICBSE 2016 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited Keynote Lecture on "Hydrogen as Future Fuel" was given at the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participated in the UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows (UKCTRF) workshop held at Cambridge University on 11th Sep 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the workshop was to share the activities and experience of UKCTRF group members working on advanced turbulence combustion modelling research. It was very useful for our current research. Networking with other researchers working in the area and getting to know new researchers who are working in turbulent combustion research has been a useful outcome from this meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation at the UKCTRF Conference - Imperial College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation outlining current turbulent combustion work by Professor Malalasekera at Loughborough University, titled "Large Eddy Simulation of Jet in Cross-flow mixing in gas turbine fuel injection" was given at the UKCTRF conference held on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2015 at Imperial College, London. The presentation was received very well and there was a questions and answer session to discuss turbulent combustion modelling research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Rolls Royce Combustion CFD Annual Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Rolls Royce Combustion CFD Annual Riview by Dr Gary Page and further dicussions on impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Thermoacoustics meeting at Cambridge University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Simulations of the acoustic response of a spray formed by an aero engine fuel injector under acoustic forcing were presented. The audience were academics and research students/staff working in the field of thermoacoustics as well as Rolls-Royce engineers from the UK and Germany working in the combustion and CFD methods departments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UKCTRF Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated and presented work at the United Kingdom Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows (UKCTRF) conference held at Imperial College London on 22nd and 23rd September 2015. The aim of the workshop was to share the activities and experience of UKCTRF group members working on advanced turbulence combustion modelling research. It was very useful for our current research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |