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Lean blow-out prediction of aero-engine combustor based on cold flow field numerical simulation

  • Bin Hu*
  • , Yong Huang
  • , Fang Wang
  • , Fa Xie
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to predict the lean blow-out (LBO) fuel/air ratio based on the numerical simulation of the cold flow field of aero-engine combustors. The paper improves the combustion volume and combustion air contained in Lefebvre's LBO model, and then correlates the cold flow field to the LBO performance of the combustor through the combustion load parameter (V f·m r) obtained from the flammable limits. Commercial soft Fluent is used to solve the velocity and concentration field of the combustor. The method of Fuel Iterative Approximation (FIA) is proposed to predict the LBO performance of the combustor. Comparing with the experiment data, it is found that the LBO performance is related to the cold flow field of the combustor and V f·m r fits linearly with the LBO fuel/air ratio. The LBO prediction accuracy using Fuel Iterative Approximation is within ±8.4%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)232-238
Number of pages7
JournalTuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology
Volume33
Issue number2
StatePublished - Apr 2012

Keywords

  • Cold flow
  • Combustion chamber
  • Combustion load parameter
  • Numerical simulation
  • Prediction of LBO limits

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