This code realizes a steady laminar flamelet approach for turbulent non-premixed combustion. The solver is based on ''rhoCentralFoam'', i.e. it is density-based (For high speed flow, Mach > 1), compressible and runs with both LES and RAS turbulence.
The theory is mainly taken from the work of N. Peters and is based on the view of a turbulent flame as an ensemble of laminar flamelets. The calculation of these flamelets is a one-dimensional problem and can be done in a pre-processing step. Integration using a presumed beta-Probability Density Function (PDF) accounts for the interaction between turbulent fluctuations and chemistry. The results of the pre-processing procedure are stored in tables which are accessed during the simulation. Values of interest, such as species mass fraction or enthalpy, are looked-up and connected to the flow using three parameters - the mixture fraction, its variance and the progress parameter. In doing so, the expensive solution of chemical mechanisms during run-time can be avoided and the run-time thus reduces significantly.
This version works with OpenFOAM-3.0.1
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Prepare a directory on your system, e.g.:
mkdir ~/OpenFOAM/FPVCentralFoam/ -
Download FPVCentralFoam using git:
git clone https://github.com/weixian001/FPVCentralFoam-v3.0.1.git ~/OpenFOAM/FPVCentralFoam/ -
Set an environment variable to the FPVCentralFoam src folder:
export LIB_FPVCentralFoam_SRC=~/OpenFOAM/FPVCentralFoam/src/ -
Execute
./Allwmake
This solver was based on the work done by Prof Pfitzner, FlameletFoam created at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, Thermodynamics Institute (Prof. Pfitzner). http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/files/OpenFOAM_Workshops/OFW8_2013_Jeju/Fri/Track3/HagenMuller-OFW8.tar/download
The FPVFoam was developed by a NanyangCFD team at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore lead by Prof Chan. Main contributor is Wei Xian Lim (weixian001@e.ntu.edu.sg).