(2008) Di Domenico, Massimiliano; Gerlinger, Peter (PD Dr.-Ing.)
This work deals with the simulation of soot formation phenomena under gasturbine-like conditions. Main goal is the development of a reliable CFD simulation tool able to predict trends of soot formation under different operating conditions. A detailed, finite-rate chemistry combustion model is presented and validated. Since soot particles are the result of thousands of reactions involving hundreds of species, an efficient, new sectional approach for soot precursors and related reactions is chosen in this work. Effects of turbulent fluctuations in temperature and species concentration on the chemical reaction rate are included by employing an assumed Probability Density Function approach. Finally, the simulation of a semi-technical scale burner under gasturbine-like conditions will demonstrate the validity of the developed tools. Although discrepancies with experimental soot particle distributions are observed, numerical simulations are able to reproduce the pressure dependence of the peak soot volume fraction quite well.
