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Combustion and radiation modelling |
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| No of hours per week: 4 [2 + 2], one term | ECTS: 5 | ||||||||||
Study: undergraduate (BSc) study of mechanical engineering Course: Modelling in Engineering and Computational Simulations Term: IV term Course type: Field-related Knowledge assessment: exam Type of exercises: Laboratory Exam prerequisites: Thermodynamics I, Fluid Mechanics I |
Course objective: Introduction to processes of combustion and heat radiation and methods for their calculations inside furnaces and combustion chambers Recommended literature: 1. Görner, K., Technishe Verbrennungssysteme: Grundlage, Modellbildung, Simulation, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1991, 2. Kuo, K.K., Principles of Combustion, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1986, 3. Siegel.R. and Howell, J.R., Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, second edition, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington, 1981. URL links: Exam dates |
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| Week | Lectures | Exercises | |||||||||
| 1. | Combustion statics | Excel with Visual Basic | |||||||||
| 2. | Combustion dynamics | Combustion calculations, constructin of H-t diagram | |||||||||
| 3. | Fuel gas combustion | Calculations of constants for combustion kinetics. Arrhenius function applied on combustion. | |||||||||
| 4. | Fuel liquid combustion | Development of a simple combustion model for liquid fuel. | |||||||||
| 5. | Pulverized coal combustion | Development of a simple combustion model for pulverized coal. | |||||||||
| 6. | Production of pollutants: CO2, SOx, NOx, soot and particles | Mathematical model of NOx generation. | |||||||||
| 7. | Colloquy | Mathematical model of NOx generation. | |||||||||
| 8. | Radiation intensity distribution | Calculation examples | |||||||||
| 9. | Diffusion and flux models of radiation | Calculation examples | |||||||||
| 10. | Zonal methods for radiation calculations: Hottel method, Monte Carlomethod | Development of Monte Carlo model for simple geometry. | |||||||||
| 11. | Discrete radiation model, optical characteristics of media | Development of Monte Carlo model for simple geometry. | |||||||||
| 12. | Temperature calculations: mean gas temperature, gas temperature fluctuations, mean particle temperature | Development of Monte Carlo model for simple geometry. | |||||||||
| 13. | Conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy. Transport equations for species. Equation discretization. | Development of Monte Carlo model for simple geometry. | |||||||||
| 14. | Numerical methods | Development of Monte Carlo model for simple geometry. | |||||||||
| 15. | Exam | Development of Monte Carlo model for simple geometry. | |||||||||