TY - GEN A1 - Klein, Rupert A1 - Nadolski, Maikel A1 - Zenker, Christian A1 - Oevermann, Michael A1 - Paschereit, Christian Oliver T1 - Pressure gain combustion for gas turbines : analysis of a fully coupled engine model T2 - Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power N2 - The “Shockless Explosion Combustion” (SEC) concept for gas turbine combustors, introduced in 2014, approximates constant volume combustion (CVC) by harnessing acoustic confinement of auto-igniting gas packets. The resulting pressure waves simultaneously transmit combustion energy to a turbine plenum and facilitate the combustor's recharging against an average pressure gain. Challenges in actualizing an SEC-driven gas turbine include (i) the creation of charge stratifications for nearly homogeneous auto-ignition, (ii) protecting the turbocomponents from combustion-induced pressure fluctuations, (iii) providing evidence that efficiency gains comparable to those of CVC over deflagrative combustion can be realized, and (iv) designing an effective one-way intake valve. This work addresses challenges (i)–(iii) utilizing computational engine models incorporating a quasi-one-dimensional combustor, zero- and two-dimensional (2D) compressor and turbine plena, and quasi-stationary turbocomponents. Two SEC operational modes are identified which fire at roughly one and two times the combustors' acoustic frequencies. Results for SEC-driven gas turbines with compressor pressure ratios of 6:1 and 20:1 reveal 1.5-fold mean pressure gains across the combustors. Assuming ideally efficient compressors and turbines, efficiency gains over engines with deflagration-based combustors of 30% and 18% are realized, respectively. With absolute values of 52% and 66%, the obtained efficiencies are close to the theoretical Humphrey cycle efficiencies of 54% and 65% for the mentioned precompression ratios. Detailed thermodynamic cycle analyses for individual gas parcels suggest that there is room for further efficiency gains through optimized plenum and combustor designs. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4066348 SN - 0742-4795 VL - 147 IS - 2 PB - ASME International ER - TY - GEN A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Zenker, Christian A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Small-scale resolving simulations of the turbulent mixing in confined planar jets using one-dimensional turbulence T2 - Chemical Engineering Science Y1 - 2019 SN - 0009-2509 VL - 204 SP - 186 EP - 202 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Zenker, Christian A1 - Starick, Tommy A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Stochastic modeling of multiple scalar mixing in a three-stream concentric coaxial jet based on one-dimensional turbulence T2 - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow N2 - Modeling turbulent mixing is a standing challenge for nonpremixed chemically reacting flows. Key complications arise from the requirement to capture all relevant scales of the flow and the necessity to distinguish between turbulent advective transport and molecular diffusive transport processes. In addition, anisotropic mean shear, variable advection time scales, and the coexistence of turbulent and nonturbulent regions need to be represented. The fundamental issues at stake are addressed by investigating multi-scalar mixing in a three-stream coaxial jet with a map-based stochastic one-dimensional turbulence model. ODT provides full-scale resolution at affordable costs by a radical reduction of complexity compared to high-fidelity Navier–Stokes solvers. The approach is partly justified by an application of the boundary-layer approximation, but neglects fluctuating axial pressure gradients. It is demonstrated that low-order scalar statistics are reasonably but not fully captured. Despite this shortcoming, it is shown that the model is able to reproduce experimental state-space statistics of multi-stream multi-scalar mixing. The model therefore offers physics-compatible improvements in multi-stream mixing modeling despite some fundamental limitations that remain from unjustified assumptions. KW - map-based stochastic advection modeling KW - multiple passive scalars KW - one-dimensional turbulence KW - turbulent jet KW - turbulent mixing Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109235 SN - 0142-727X N1 - This article is part of the "TSFP12 Special Issue". VL - 104 SP - 1 EP - 17 ER -