Compressibility effects on the scalar mixing in reacting homogeneous turbulence
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The compressibility and heat of reaction influence on the scalar mixing in decaying isotropic turbulence and homogeneous shear flow are examined via data generated by direct numerical simulations (DNS). The reaction is modeled as one-step, exothermic, irreversible and Arrhenius type. For the shear flow simulations, the scalar dissipation rate, as well as the time scale ratio of mechanical to scalar dissipation, are affected by compressibility and reaction. This effect is explained by considering the transport equation for the normalized mixture fraction gradient variance and the relative orientation between the mixture fraction gradient and the eigenvectors of the solenoidal strain rate tensor.
In Turbulent Mixing and Combustion, eds. A. Pollard and S. Candel, Kluwer, 2002
In Turbulent Mixing and Combustion, eds. A. Pollard and S. Candel, Kluwer, 2002