@misc{FistlerKersteinWunschetal., author = {Fistler, Marco and Kerstein, Alan R. and Wunsch, Scott and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {Turbulence modulation in particle-laden stationary homogeneous shear turbulence using one-dimensional turbulence}, series = {Physical Review Fluids}, volume = {5}, journal = {Physical Review Fluids}, number = {12}, issn = {2469-990X}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.124303}, pages = {28}, abstract = {Turbulence modulation in particle-laden stationary homogeneous shear turbulence (HST) is investigated using one-dimensional turbulence (ODT), a low-dimensional stochastic flow simulation model. For this purpose, an ODT formulation previously used to study turbulence modulation in forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT) is extended, so that the model emulates the anisotropic character of HST and, potentially, anisotropic turbulence in general. This is done by limiting the kinetic-energy redistribution during an eddy event to an exchange involving two velocity components, where the three possible choices of the omitted component define three eddy types whose relative likelihoods control the anisotropy. Comparisons of ODT and direct-numerical-simulation results with reference to signatures of turbulence modulation are the basis of a broader ODT parameter study that is reported. Owing to the reduced dimensionality of ODT, it is found that the fidelity of the model for single-phase HST does not extend to particle effects on flow anisotropy, but for quantities averaged over components, parametric trends are captured. The consistent approach to case comparisons that was introduced in the HIT study to evaluate sensitivities to particle-phase parameters in a given flow configuration is extended here to a cross-comparison of HST and HIT model results, and its efficacy is again confirmed. The results provide an overall characterization of the potential for ODT to support the incorporation of particle-induced turbulence modulation into subgrid-scale closures of large-eddy simulations.}, language = {en} } @misc{WadekarYamaguchiOevermann, author = {Wadekar, Sandip and Yamaguchi, Akichika and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {Large-Eddy Simulation on the Effects of Fuel Injection Pressure on the Gasoline Spray Characteristics}, series = {SAE Technical Papers}, journal = {SAE Technical Papers}, issn = {2688-3627}, doi = {10.4271/2019-01-0060}, abstract = {Increasing the injection pressure in gasoline direct injection engines has a substantial potential to reduce emissions while maintaining a high efficiency in spark ignition engines. Present gasoline injectors are operating in the range of 20 MPa to 25 MPa. Now there is an interest in higher fuel injection pressures, for instance, around 40 MPa, 60 MPa and even higher pressures, because of its potential for further emission reduction and fuel efficiency improvements. In order to fully utilize the high-pressure fuel injection technology, a fundamental understanding of gasoline spray characteristics is vital to gain insight into spray behavior under such high injection pressures. The understanding achieved may also be beneficial to improve further model development and facilitate the integration of such advanced injection systems into future gasoline engines. In the present study, a gasoline fuel spray has been investigated over a range of fuel injection pressures from 40 to 150 MPa through a numerical simulation study. The numerical calculations have been performed in a constant volume chamber under non-vaporizing conditions to best match the experimental setup. The numerical model utilized a large-eddy simulation (LES) approach for the gas flow and a standard Lagrangian spray model for the liquid phase. The spray atomization has been modeled using the Kelvin Helmholtz - Rayleigh Taylor (KH-RT) atomization model with a droplet size distribution from the injector assumed to follow a Rosin-Rammler distribution function. Simulation results for the spray liquid penetration length are validated with experimental findings under different fuel injection pressures. Afterwards, an arithmetic mean droplet diameter (D10) and a Sauter mean droplet diameter (D32) as a function of pressure are compared against the measured droplet diameters. Simulated drop size distributions are presented and compared with measured droplet sizes. The results indicate that a high fuel injection pressure increases the liquid penetration length and significantly reduces droplet sizes. The results also exhibit that the SMD decreases from 13.4 μm to 7.5 μm, when injection pressure changes from 40 MPa to 150 MPa and that probability of finding the 5-9 μm droplet diameter decreases from 72\% to 40\% for the injection pressure drops from 150 MPa to 40 MPa.}, language = {en} } @misc{SomhorstOevermannBovoetal., author = {Somhorst, Joop and Oevermann, Michael and Bovo, Mirko and Denbratt, Ingemar}, title = {A Method to Evaluate the Compression Ratio in IC Engines with Porous Thermal Barrier Coatings}, series = {SAE Technical Papers}, journal = {SAE Technical Papers}, issn = {2688-3627}, doi = {10.4271/2018-01-1778}, abstract = {The compression ratio is an important engine design parameter. It determines to a large extend engine properties like the achievable efficiency, the heat losses from the combustion chamber and the exhaust losses. The same properties are affected by insulation of the combustion chamber. It is therefore especially important to know the compression ratio when doing experiments with thermal barrier coatings (TBC). In case of porous TBCs, the standard methods to measure the compression ratio can give wrong results. When measuring the compression ratio by volume, using a liquid, it is uncertain if the liquid fills the total porous volume of the coating. And for a thermodynamic compression ratio estimation, a model for the heat losses is needed, which is not available when doing experiments with insulation. The subject of this paper is the evaluation of an alternative method to assess the compression ratio. It is based on motored cylinder pressure data like other thermodynamic methods but does not need a model for the heat losses. The validation and application of the method is done with data from experiments involving two types of porous TBCs, performed on a light duty single cylinder diesel engine. The results indicate that the proposed method accurately predicts the compression ratio for porous thermal barrier coatings.}, language = {en} } @misc{WadekarOevermann, author = {Wadekar, Sandip and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Ultra-High Fuel Injection Pressure on Gasoline Sprays}, series = {Flow, Turbulence and Combustion}, volume = {107 (2021)}, journal = {Flow, Turbulence and Combustion}, number = {1}, issn = {1573-1987}, doi = {10.1007/s10494-020-00231-0}, pages = {149 -- 174}, abstract = {The development of gasoline spray at ultra-high injection pressures was analyzed using Large-Eddy simulation (LES). Two different nozzle hole geometries, divergent and convergent shape, were considered to inject the fuel at injection pressures ranging from 200 to 1500 bar inside a constant volume spray chamber maintained at atmospheric conditions. The discrete droplet phase was treated using a Lagrangian formulation together with the standard spray sub-models. The numerical results were calibrated by reproducing experimentally observed liquid penetration length and efforts were made to understand the influence of ultra-high injection pressures on the spray development. The calibrated model was then used to investigate the impact of ultra-high injection pressures on mean droplet size and droplet size distribution. In addition, the spray-induced large-scale eddies and entrainment rate were evaluated at different ultra-high injection pressures. Overall, simulation results showed a good agreement with available measurement data. At ultra-high injection pressures mean droplet sizes were significantly reduced and comprised very high velocities. Integral length scales of spray-induced turbulence and air entrainment rate into the spray were larger at higher injection pressure compared to lower ones.}, language = {en} } @misc{PuetzMovagharOevermann, author = {P{\"u}tz, Michele and Movaghar, Amirreza and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {Numerical simulation of a gasoline spray using one-dimensional turbulence for primary atomization}, series = {ICLASS 2018 - 14th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems}, journal = {ICLASS 2018 - 14th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems}, abstract = {Predictive and reliable simulations have the potential to constitute a valuable tool for the optimization of spray systems if accurate submodels are developed for the entire range of the governing processes. The primary breakup of the turbulent liquid jet is one the most important mechanisms in sprays, yet the least developed in terms of numerical modeling. The most accurate method to simulate primary breakup is the proper resolution of liquid-gas interfaces and turbulent flow structures. However, a wide range of relevant length and time scales implicate grid requirements that are often prohibitive for real engineering applications. The most widely used method in practice is still the representation of both the continuous liquid core and the dispersed phase by means of discrete Lagrangian particles evolving in and interacting with the Eulerian gas phase. The available models for primary breakup are mainly phenomenological and involve a number of empirical constants. The one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model is an alternative stochastic approach to model turbulence in flows with a dominant direction of property gradients. The stochastic representation of turbulent eddies on a one-dimensional domain enables high resolution at moderate computational costs. Applications of ODT to atomization revealed a great potential in recent studies. The objective of the present study is to combine ODT as a primary breakup model with a conventional Eulerian-Lagrangian method for the further spray evolution in order to asses ODT as a submodel in full spray models. Our numerical investigations were conducted on the ECN spray G, a gasoline-like, evaporating spray. The results in terms of spray penetration are encouraging, though the applicability of ODT to the transient injection phase and effects on additional spray characteristics require further investigation.}, language = {en} } @misc{FistlerKersteinOevermann, author = {Fistler, Marco and Kerstein, Alan R. and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {A new LES subgrid-scale approach for turbulence modulation by droplets}, series = {ICLASS 14th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems Chicago, USA, 2018-07-21 - 2018-07-26}, journal = {ICLASS 14th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems Chicago, USA, 2018-07-21 - 2018-07-26}, pages = {8}, abstract = {We present a new modelling approach for turbulence modulation by droplets on the subgrid-scale (SGS) level of Large-Eddy-Simulations (LES). Many SGS models exist for the effect of gas phase SGS on the droplet phase, but very few for the mechanisms vice versa on the turbulent intensity of the gas phase. The reasons are a lack of physical understanding and limited computational resources for extensive DNS studies. To address both problems a dimension-reduced and consequently less costly model, namely One-Dimensional- Turbulence (ODT), is used to gather information about this specific flow phenomena. ODT is a stochastic tool simulating turbulent flows along a notional 1D line of sights. For modeling the turbulent advection instantaneous maps are applied to the line which represent the effect of individual eddies on property fields and the dispersed phase. After validating the general test case of a droplet-laden shear flow against DNS data, a concept is presented on how to gather turbulence modulation for several parameter ranges in a data base and how to make them accessible on the flight for LES. The three most significant parameters, the unladen flow Reynolds number, the droplet loading and the particle momentum number, are chosen to construct an efficient data base.}, language = {en} } @incollection{MovagharChiodiDesjardinsetal., author = {Movaghar, Amirreza and Chiodi, Robert and Desjardins, Olivier and Oevermann, Michael and Kerstein, Alan R.}, title = {A Subgrid-Scale Model for Large-Eddy Simulation of Liquid/Gas Interfaces Based on One-Dimensional Turbulence}, series = {Turbulent Cascades II}, booktitle = {Turbulent Cascades II}, publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland AG}, address = {Schweiz}, isbn = {978-3-030-12547-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-12547-9_10}, pages = {83 -- 91}, abstract = {The interface/turbulence interaction between two fluids in a turbulent environment has an important role in many technical processes, e.g. primary liquid atomization in combustion devices. Primary atomization has a significant role in spray formation and its characteristics. The resulting dynamics typically span 4-6 orders of magnitude in length scales, making detailed numerical simulations exceedingly expensive. This motivates the need for modeling approaches based on spatial filtering such as large-eddy simulation (LES). In this paper, a new approach based on One-Dimensional turbulence (ODT) is presented to describe the subgrid interface dynamics. ODT is a stochastic model simulating turbulent flow evolution along a notional one-dimensional line of sight by applying instantaneous maps that represent the effects of individual turbulent eddies on property fields. It provides affordable high resolution of interface creation and property gradients within each phase, which are key for capturing the local behavior as well as overall trends. ODT has previously been shown to reproduce the main features of an experimentally determined regime diagram for primary jet breakup. Here a new approach called VODT is presented which produces a size-conditioned as well as a total time rate of generation of droplets for given flow conditions at an interface. At the LES level, the total droplet generation from VODT is interpreted as a rate of mass conversion of LES-resolved liquid into unresolved droplets. Preliminary results of applying VODT to a cell with a planar-shear-layer are discussed at the end of the paper.}, language = {en} } @misc{SomhorstOevermann, author = {Somhorst, Joop and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {Effects of thermal barrier coating porosity on combustion and heat losses in a light duty diesel engine}, series = {International Journal of Engine Research}, volume = {25 (2024)}, journal = {International Journal of Engine Research}, number = {5}, issn = {1468-0874}, doi = {10.1177/14680874231215526}, pages = {940 -- 958}, abstract = {Plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), applied in internal combustion engines, can have a profound impact on the apparent rate of heat release. Upon fuel jet contact with the piston wall, the heat loss seems to increase compared to an uncoated piston and combustion appears delayed. Permeable porosity of plasma sprayed TBCs is identified as one of the possible causes for this unwanted effect. In this article the impact of open porosity and sealing of the TBC surface are investigated with single cylinder engine experiments and with simulations. Based on the results, a mechanism is presented to explain the observations.}, language = {en} } @misc{MedinaMendezFistlerOevermannetal., author = {Medina M{\´e}ndez, Juan Ali and Fistler, Marco and Oevermann, Michael and Schmidt, Heiko and Riebel, Ulrich}, title = {Economical map-based turbulence models: Developments and perspectives for the numerical analysis of electrostatic precipitation}, series = {Book of Abstracts PARTEC International Congress on Particle Technology, September 26-28, 2023, N{\"u}rnberg}, journal = {Book of Abstracts PARTEC International Congress on Particle Technology, September 26-28, 2023, N{\"u}rnberg}, publisher = {VDI Verlag GmbH}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, pages = {634 -- 638}, language = {en} } @misc{MenonKersteinOevermann, author = {Menon, Abhilash and Kerstein, Alan and Oevermann, Michael}, title = {Assessing the multi-regime capability of the Super-Grid Linear Eddy Model (SG-LEM) using the Darmstadt multi-regime burner}, series = {Flow, Turbulence and Combustion}, volume = {2024}, journal = {Flow, Turbulence and Combustion}, publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, issn = {1386-6184}, doi = {10.1007/s10494-024-00602-x}, pages = {26}, abstract = {AbstractRecent advances in combustion modelling for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) have increasingly utilised lower-dimensional manifolds, such as Flamelet Generated Manifolds and Flamelet/Progress Variable methods, due to their computational efficiency. These methods typically rely on one-dimensional representations of flame structures, often assuming premixed or non-premixed configurations. However, practical combustion devices frequently operate under partially-premixed conditions and present challenges due to mixture inhomogeneities and complex flow features. The Linear Eddy Model (LEM) offers an alternative by directly simulating turbulence-chemistry interactions without presuming specific flame structures. However, traditional LES-LEM approaches are computationally quite expensive due to the need for resolved LEM domains to be embedded in every LES cell.The authors developed the Super-Grid LEM (SG-LEM) method (Comb. Theor. Model.  28, 2024) to address these computational challenges by coarse-graining the LES mesh and embedding individual LEM domains within clusters of LES cells. This study evaluates SG-LEM in the context of the Multi-Regime Burner (MRB) introduced by Butz et al. (Combust. Flame, 210, 2019), which features both premixed and non-premixed flame characteristics. SG-LEM simulations of the MRB case demonstrate the method's sensitivity to clustering parameters, with flow-aligned clusters significantly improving flame stability. LEM domains on the super-grid were able to represent the MRB flame topology while LES radial profiles including velocity, mixture fraction, temperature, and \$\${\textrm{CO}}\$\$ CO mass fraction, were validated against experimental data and also reference simulations using standard combustion closures. The work also investigates discrepancies in CO profiles using conditional statistics and stand-alone LEM simulations. Finally, the work identifies areas of improvement for the SG-LEM framework, in particular relating to cluster generation, and (advective and diffusive) mass exchange between neighbouring LEM domains, as well as possible solutions for future SG-LEM implementations which could improve the model's predictive capability.}, language = {en} }