Simulation and modeling of soot formation and transport in turbulent flames

This project involves fundamental investigation of soot formation and transport in turbulent flames using advanced simulation techniques, including ODT, LES, and DNS. Soot emission from combustion devices is a pollutant, a health hazard, and affects global warming. Soot is responsible for the bulk of flame radiation. Understanding its behavior in flames, and being able to accurately model this behavior is important for quantitative engineering design and fire hazard analysis.

Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation under grant number CBET-1403403.

Researchers

Pricipal Investigator

• David O. Lignell

Graduate Research Assistants

• Victoria B. Lansinger

Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Sarah Skousen
• Keslee Deem
• Sierra Andersen
• Keturah Bay
• Mikel Zaitzeff
• Brett Siddoway
• Paxton Gray

Codes/Data

• One Dimensional Turbulence (ODT)
• ARCHES (LES)
• S3D (DNS)
• Soot coagulation rates
• Radiation
  • Weighted sum of gray gas model
  • Rank Correlated SLW model
  • Soot absorption coefficients
  • Cylindrical radiation
  • Planar radiation
• DNS data
  • (Data was made available as part of this project, but was previously generated.)
  • Planar means
  • Planar RMS
  • Conditional means
  • Conditional RMS

Publications

Journal articles

• J.A. Medina M. H. Schmidt, D.O. Lignell, “Application of the one dimensional turbulence model to incompressible channel and pipe flow,” Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, submitted April 17, 2018, Preprint.
• D.O. Lignell, V.B. Lansinger, J. Medina, M. Klein, A.R. Kerstein, H. Schmidt, M. Fistler, M. Oevermann, “One-dimensional turbulence modeling for cylindrical and spherical flows: model formulation and application,” Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 32(4):495-520 (2018). Accepted Paper ©.
• D.O. Lignell, M.J. Memmott, A.A. Andersen, “STEM outreach to high school students through a chemical engineering fluid mechanics course project” Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education, 4(1):50-59, 2018.
• H. Ghiassi, D.O. Lignell, J. Lighty, “Soot oxidation by OH: theory development, model, and experimental validation,” Energy and Fuels, 31(3):2236-2245 (2017).
• J.C.K. Tang, H. Wang, M. Bolla, E.R. Hawkes, J. Bradbury, A. Wehrfritz, D.O. Lignell, “A DNS evaluation of the effect of mixing models on soot predictions in nonpremixed flames using the transported PDF method,” submitted to Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, November 30, 2017, Preprint.

Peer reviewed conference papers

• D.O. Lignell, M.J. Memmott, A.A. Andersen, “Involving high school students in an engineering fluid mechanics course project,” ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference, September 22-23, 2017, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. Paper.
• M. Fistler, D.O. Lignell, A.R. Kerstein, M. Oevermann, “Numerical studies of turbulent particle-laden jets using spatial approach of one-dimensional turbulence,” ILASS-Europe 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, September 6-8, 2017, Valencia, Spain. Paper.

Invited presentations

• D.O. Lignell, “Questions and research in turbulent combustion,” Brigham Young University, October 15, 2018, Provo, Utah, USA.
• D.O. Lignell, “Simulation and modeling of turbulent combustion,” Brigham Young University, November 16, 2017, Provo, Utah, USA.
• D.O. Lignell, “Multiscale simulation of turbulent flows using One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT),” Sandia National Laboratories, July 11, 2017, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
• D.O. Lignell, “Detailed simulations of soot formation in nonpremixed jet flames,” AFOSR/ARO/NSF Basic Combustion Research Review, June 10, 2016, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
• D.O. Lignell, “Simulation of turbulent reacting flows using ODT, DNS, and LES,” Graduate Seminar, University of California, Riverside, October 30, 2015, Riverside, CA, USA.

Conference papers and presentations

• M. Klein, D.O. Lignell, H. Schmidt, “Map-based modeling of turbulent convection: Application of the One-Dimensional Turbulence Model to planar and spherical geometries” (poster), International Conference on Rayleigh-Benard Turbulence, May 14-18, 2018, Enschede, Netherlands.
• M. Klein, H. Schmidt, D.O. Lignell, “Map-based modeling of high-Ra turbulent convection in planar and spherical geometries,” Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow, September 4-7, 2018, Budapest, Hungary.
• D.O. Lignell, V.B. Lansinger, A.R. Kerstein, “A cylindrical formulation of the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model for turbulent jet flames,” AIChE Annual Meeting, October 29-November 3, 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
• M. Fistler, D.O. Lignell, A.R. Kerstein, M. Oevermann, “Numerical study of stochastic particle dispersion using One-Dimensional Turbulence,” ILASS-Americas 29th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA. Paper.
• S.A. Skousen, V. Lansinger, D.O. Lignell, “Simulations of soot formation using a one dimensional turbulence model,” UCUR conference, February 17, 2017, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, USA.
• V.B. Lansinger, D.O. Lignell, J.C. Hewson, “One-dimensional turbulence modeling of soot in turbulent, nonpremixed flames,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
• V.B. Lansinger, D.O. Lignell, J.C. Hewson, “Soot formation in round ethylene jet flames using one-dimensional turbulence,” 2015 Fall Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, October 5-6, 2015, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
• J.C. Hewson, D.O. Lignell, S.P. Kearney, D.R. Guildenbecher, V. Lansinger, “One-dimensional turbulence simulation of soot and enthalpy evolution in ethylene jet diffusion flames,” 9th Meeting of the U.S. Joint Sections of the Combustion Institute, May 17-20, 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
• J.C. Hewson, D.O. Lignell, S.P. Kearney, D.R. Guildenbecher, V. Lansinger, “One-dimensional turbulence simulation of soot and enthalpy evolution in ethylene jet flames,” FM Global Open Source Fire Modeling Workshop, May 6, 2015, Norwood, MA, USA.
• D.O. Lignell, J.C. Hewson, “One-dimensional turbulence simulation: overview and application to soot formation in nonpremixed flames,” SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, March 13-18, 2015, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.