Burner and combustion CFD analysis
Flame instability, uneven heating and poor burnout usually start with how fuel and air meet. A combustion CFD study shows the mixing, the recirculation zones and the temperature field, so a change to the burner or its operating regime can be judged before a test campaign.
Questions this work answers
- Where do fuel and air mix well, and where do they not?
- What sets the flame shape, its attachment and the hot spots on the walls?
- How would a change of geometry, swirl, staging or fuel alter the field?
What the work covers
- Turbulent reacting flow with species transport, and radiation where wall heating matters
- Mixing and species fields, temperature, recirculation zones and wall heat flux
- Checks: mass and energy balances, mesh assessment, sensitivity to the combustion model, comparison with your measurements
What it cannot tell you
Chemistry and its interaction with turbulence are modelled, not resolved. Temperature and major-species trends are reliable for comparing variants; NOx and CO values are indicative unless the model is calibrated against measurements from your unit.
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Track record
- Book
- Development of thermal-energy models using ANSYS.