Modelling soot production and thermal radiation for turbulent diffusion flames

This paper presents a systematic investigation on the strategies required for modelling soot when performing CFD simulations of turbulent flames. The first test case consists in a 3D enclosure containing a mixture of N2, CO2, H2O and soot (Coelho, 2003). Results obtained with the gray implementation of the Discrete Ordinate Method in ANSYS Fluent are compared against literature data, assessing different formulations for the absorption coefficient of soot. These considerations are exploited through reactive RANS simulations accounting for radiative heat transfer, with the purpose to test different models for soot formation process on a turbulent non-premixed kerosene-air flame (Young et al., 1994).