Combustion Chamber
pimpleFoam, mixing gas streams, objectFunctions, passive scalar
Tobias worked once for the Robert Bosch AG in Lollar, which belongs in former times to Buderus. There, they developed the new generation of bio-mass combustion chambers for private applications. As always, polluted air is a problem in many countries, especially in big cities or at landscapes in which the air exchange is small related to the geographical location. Thus, governments make laws such as TA-Luft, BImSchV in Germany, or stringent global regulation (world bank). Reducing the pollution of, e.g., large engines or biomass combustion chambers using numerical methods can help to reach the climate goals and support and save the environment a bit.
Numerical simulations can be used to optimize the design and thus reduce pollutants, make the design more efficient and effective
The training case shows a unique combustion chamber that allows one to mix the air and fuel stream effectively. After the combustion chamber, a diffusor is added, which leads to a vortex break-down and re-burns the unburned gas. The break-down phenomenon is not taken into account in the scenario prepared here. Mostly, the meshing and set-up of a passive scalar equation is the focus of the case. Thus, the combustion chamber published here is an idea of a new design development done during the Master thesis of Tobias. In 2014, the Robert Bosch AG was investigating in such kind of biomass combustion chambers. The case will mesh a complex geometry using snappyHexMesh and adding layers to the spherical part as well as to the diffusor section. The simulation is arbitrary without combustion (cold-flow). However, function objects are used to generate the passive scalar transport equation on the fly, which could be related to the oxidizer and fuel stream.
Published under the GNU General Public License 3
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