Examining the effect of geometry changes in industrial fuel injection systems on hydrodynamic structures with biglobal linear stability analysis

Autor: Thierry Poinsot, Thomas Kaiser, Laurent Selle, Kilian Oberleithner
Přispěvatelé: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), Technische Universität Berlin - TU Berlin (GERMANY), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE), Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse - IMFT (Toulouse, France), Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020, 142 (1), pp.011024. ⟨10.1115/1.4045018⟩
ISSN: 0742-4795
Popis: Shape optimization with respect to the suppression or enhancement of dynamical flow structures is an important topic in combustion research and beyond. In this paper, we investigate the flow in an industrial fuel injection system by experimental means, as well as Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Linear Stability Analysis (LSA) for two configurations of the swirler. In the first configuration, the reference geometry, a Precessing Vortex Core (PVC) occurs. In the second configuration, a center body is mounted in the interior of the injector. It is shown by both experiments and LES that the PVC is suppressed in the presence of the center body, while the mean flow remains nearly unaffected. The method of LSA is applied in order to explain the effect of the geometry change. The work shows that LSA is capable of explaining the occurrence or disappearance of coherent structures evolving on the turbulent flows if the geometry is changed. This is an important step in using LSA in the context of shape optimization of industrial fuel injectors.
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