FGM modeling considering preferential diffusion, flame stretch, and non-adiabatic effects for hydrogen-air premixed flame wall flashback

TL;DR

This paper introduces an extended flamelet-generated manifold (FGM) method that explicitly incorporates preferential diffusion, flame stretch, and non-adiabatic effects to improve hydrogen-air flame flashback predictions.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel extended FGM approach that accounts for variable Lewis numbers, enhancing the accuracy of hydrogen flame modeling in complex conditions.

Findings

Improved prediction of mixture fraction distribution and flashback speed.

Enhanced accuracy in modeling backflow regions and physical quantity distributions.

Successful reproduction of the reaction rate and curvature relationship.

Abstract

Preferential diffusion plays an important role especially in hydrogen flames. Flame stretch significantly affects the flame structure and induces preferential diffusion. A problematic phenomenon occurring in real combustion devices is flashback, which is influenced by non-adiabatic effects, such as wall heat loss. In this paper, an extended flamelet-generated manifold (FGM) method that explicitly considers the preferential diffusion, flame stretch, and non-adiabatic effects is proposed. In this method, the diffusion terms in the transport equations of scalars, viz. the progress variable, mixture fraction, and enthalpy, are formulated employing non-unity Lewis numbers that are variable in space and different for each chemical species. The applicability of the extended FGM method to hydrogen flames is investigated using two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations of hydrogen-air flame flashback in channel flows. The results of the extended FGM method are compared with those of detailed calculations and other FGM methods. The two-dimensional numerical simulations show that considering both preferential diffusion and flame stretch improves the prediction accuracy of the mixture fraction distribution and flashback speed. The three-dimensional numerical simulations show that the prediction accuracy of the flashback speed, backflow region, and distributions of physical quantities near the flame front is improved by employing the extended FGM method, compared with the FGM method that considers only the heat loss effect. In particular, the extended FGM method successfully reproduced the relationship between the reaction rate and curvature. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the extended FGM method.