Practical Use of Computation Fluid Dynamics to Industrial Combustion Applications

Paper from the AFRC 2013 conference titled Practical Use of Computation Fluid Dynamics to Industrial Combustion Applications by Kevin Anderson

An overview of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) process as applied to full sized industrial combustion applications will be presented which illustrates how CFD is currently used to predict the performance for these cases. The use of non-reacting flow modeling for optimization of burner air distribution, reacting flow modeling for predication of flame characteristics and prediction of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, and post processing CFD results for predication of NOx emissions will be discussed. Simplifications such as reduced chemistry sets will be presented. Example results will be presented including the relevant modeling techniques and field results of several full sized combustion equipment applications.