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Madnia, CK

1993

Binary Scalar Mixing and Reaction in Homogeneous Turbulence: Some Linear Eddy Model Results

Frankel, S.H.; Madnia, C.K.; McMurtry, P.A. and Givi, P.
Energy & Fuels, 7 (6):827-834, 1993. Funded by National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and ACERC.

The Linear Eddy Model (LEM) of Kerstine is used to simulate the mechanism of scalar mixing from an initial binary state in incompressible, homogeneous turbulence. The simulated results are used to measure the limiting rate of mean reactant conversion in a chemical reaction of the type F + rO --> (1 + r) Products under isothermal and nonpremixed conditions. The objective of the simulations is to access the performance of the closed form analytical expressions obtained by Madnia et al., based on the Amplitude Mapping Closure for the evaluation of the mean reactant conversion rate. This assessment is made for various flow conditions with different asymptotic statistical behavior.