Turbulent Combustion Modeling: Advances, New Trends and Perspectives (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (95))

Turbulent combustion sits at the interface of two important nonlinear, multiscale phenomena: chemistry and turbulence. Its study is extremely timely in view of the need to develop new combustion technologies in order to address challenges associated with climate change, energy source uncertainty, and air pollution. Despite the fact that modeling of turbulent combustion is a subject that has been researched for a number of years, its complexity implies that key issues are still eluding, and a theoretical description that is accurate enough to make turbulent combustion models rigorous and quantitative for industrial use is still lacking. In this book, prominent experts review most of the available approaches in modeling turbulent combustion, with particular focus on the exploding increase in computational resources that has allowed the simulation of increasingly detailed phenomena. The relevant algorithms are presented, the theoretical methods are explained, and various application examples are given. The book is intended for a relatively broad audience, including seasoned researchers and graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics and computational science, engine designers and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) practitioners, scientists at funding agencies, and anyone wishing to understand the state-of-the-art and the future directions of this scientifically challenging and practically important field. Front Matter....Pages I-XXI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Role of Combustion Technology in the 21st Century....Pages 3-18 Turbulent Combustion: Concepts, Governing Equations and Modeling Strategies....Pages 19-39 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 The Flamelet Model for Non-Premixed Combustion....Pages 43-61 RANS and LES Modelling of Premixed Turbulent Combustion....Pages 63-90 The Conditional Moment Closure Model....Pages 91-117 Transported Probability Density Function Methods for Reynolds-Averaged and Large-Eddy Simulations....Pages 119-142 Multiple Mapping Conditioning: A New Modelling Framework for Turbulent Combustion....Pages 143-173 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 The Emerging Role of Multiscale Methods in Turbulent Combustion....Pages 177-192 Model Reduction for Combustion Chemistry....Pages 193-220 The Linear-Eddy Model....Pages 221-247 The One-Dimensional-Turbulence Model....Pages 249-276 Unsteady Flame Embedding....Pages 277-300 Adaptive Methods for Simulation of Turbulent Combustion....Pages 301-329 Wavelet Methods in Computational Combustion....Pages 331-351 Front Matter....Pages 353-353 Design of Experiments for Gaining Insights and Validating Modeling of Turbulent Combustion....Pages 355-380 Uncertainty Quantification in Fluid Flow....Pages 381-407 Computational Frameworks for Advanced Combustion Simulations....Pages 409-437 The Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods with Application to Combustion....Pages 439-459 Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Reactive and Other Flows....Pages 461-486 Back Matter....Pages 487-490 As the rise in computing power enables ever more detailed simulations, this volume features the work of prominent experts who review current approaches to modeling turbulent combustion. It includes algorithms, theoretical methods, and application examples