A Numerical Study of Spray Injected in a Gas Turbine Lean Pre-Mixed Pre-Vaporized Combustor
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Amedeo Amoresano
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Raffaele Tuccillo
Abstract
The authors have performed a numerical study to investigate the spray evolution in a modern gas turbine combustor of the Lean Pre-Mixed Pre-vaporized type. The CFD tool is able to simulate the injection conditions, by isolating and studying some specific phenomena. The calculations have been performed by using a 3-D fluid dynamic code, the FLUENT flow solver, by choosing the injection models on the basis of a comparative analysis with some experimental data, in terms of droplet diameters, obtained by PDA technique.
In a first phase of the investigation, the numerical simulation refers to non-evaporating flow conditions, in order to validate the estimation of the fundamental spray parameters. Next, the calculations employ boundary conditions close to those occurring in the actual combustor operation, in order to predict the fuel vapour distribution throughout the premixing chamber. The results obtained allow the authors to perform combustion simulation in the whole domain.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Study on Internal Flow and External Performance of a Semi-open Impeller Centrifugal Pump with Different Tip Clearances
- A Numerical Study of Spray Injected in a Gas Turbine Lean Pre-Mixed Pre-Vaporized Combustor
- Coupling Optimization Design of Aspirated Compressor Airfoil and Aspirated Scheme Based on Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and CST Method
- Propagation of Different Types of Inflow Distortions through a Contra Rotating Fan Stage
- A Method to Determine the Slip Factor of Centrifugal Pumps through Experiment
- Investigation of Blade Angle of an Open Cross-Flow Runner
- Mixing Characteristics of Elliptical and Rectangular Subsonic Jets with Swirling Co-flow
- Effect of Operating Variables on the Performance of a Highly Loaded Annular Combustor
- Numerical Investigations on the Nanosecond Pulse Discharge Process of Disk-Shape Plasma Igniter
- Development of a High Efficiency In-Line Tube Fan Using CFD
