Numerical Modeling of Shockwave Initiated Combustion of a Hydrogen-Oxygen Mixture Within a Shock Tube
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| Title: | Numerical Modeling of Shockwave Initiated Combustion of a Hydrogen-Oxygen Mixture Within a Shock Tube |
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| Authors: | Forehand, Reed |
| Committee Members: | Kinzel, Michael |
| Summary: | Shock tubes are as close to an ideal reactor as most modern experiments can attain to examine chemical kinetics. As reaction temperatures drop, homogeneous combustion within a shock tube begins to exhibit inhomogeneous modes, which in a typical Hydrogen-Oxygen system are ex- pressed as deflagration to detonation transition. Experimental results of such a system in the Uni- versity of Central Florida's low-pressure shock tube have been collected through end and side-wall imaging to analyze flame structure and chemical kinetics. The purpose of this work is to con- duct a baselining of these results using both chemical and computational fluid dynamics modeling. The model will use the Siemens STAR-CCM+ computational fluid dynamics software in order to accurately simulate the system. A seven-step reaction mechanism will be used to accurately capture initialization, propagation, and termination of the combustion within an implicit unsteady, three-dimensional, direct eddy simulation solution on a well-conditioned mesh. The end goal of this study is to create a lightweight model of hydrogen-oxygen combustion with a shock tube for baselining purposes. Both a two- and three- dimensional model were applied in this effort. The simulation results indicate good conditioning and agreement with the experimental results, although some combustion phenomena are not captured as well as a higher fidelity, significantly more computationally expensive model would. |
| URL: | https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020/678 |
| Database: | OpenDissertations |
| Abstract: | Shock tubes are as close to an ideal reactor as most modern experiments can attain to examine chemical kinetics. As reaction temperatures drop, homogeneous combustion within a shock tube begins to exhibit inhomogeneous modes, which in a typical Hydrogen-Oxygen system are ex- pressed as deflagration to detonation transition. Experimental results of such a system in the Uni- versity of Central Florida's low-pressure shock tube have been collected through end and side-wall imaging to analyze flame structure and chemical kinetics. The purpose of this work is to con- duct a baselining of these results using both chemical and computational fluid dynamics modeling. The model will use the Siemens STAR-CCM+ computational fluid dynamics software in order to accurately simulate the system. A seven-step reaction mechanism will be used to accurately capture initialization, propagation, and termination of the combustion within an implicit unsteady, three-dimensional, direct eddy simulation solution on a well-conditioned mesh. The end goal of this study is to create a lightweight model of hydrogen-oxygen combustion with a shock tube for baselining purposes. Both a two- and three- dimensional model were applied in this effort. The simulation results indicate good conditioning and agreement with the experimental results, although some combustion phenomena are not captured as well as a higher fidelity, significantly more computationally expensive model would. |
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