MG-local-PCA method for reduced order combustion modeling

Chemistry tabulation techniques such as flamelet models are a popular way to account for detailed chemistry effects in numerical simulation. These techniques are based on the identification of a low dimensional manifold in chemical space that accurately represents chemical evolutions associated to a specific combustion regime. During the last years, several authors used the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to identify low dimensional manifold for combustion problems. However, full coupling between this manifold and flow solver has not yet been performed to the authors knowledge. The present paper introduces a new approach called Manifold Generated by a Local PCA or MG-L-PCA, which fully couple the manifold identified by a PCA and a DNS flow solver. The first part of the paper presents the PCA approach. Then, the coupling between this manifold and a DNS solver is presented. The MG-L-PCA approach is finally validated against a DNS simulation of flame vortex interaction using both detailed mechanism and a FPI manifold. Unlike FPI, the MG-L-PCA reproduces the dispersion in the chemical space induced by the flame-vortex interaction both for the species and the source terms.
SCOPUS: ar.j
info:eu-repo/semantics/published