Gas Turbine Combustion CFD Simulation: AVL Fire, Siemens Star-ccm+, Ansys Fluent and Converge

FEA & CFD Based Simulation Design Analysis Virtual prototyping MultiObjective Optimization

Gas turbine combustion can be a challenge to achieve accurate and reliable CFD simulation results. Computational efficiency requires appropriate mesh resolution and turbulence, spray, combustion, and emissions models that provide an appropriate level of detail. With using advanced and specilized CFD tools such as AVL Fire, Siemens Star-ccm+, Ansys Fluent and Converge, Enteknograte engineers can accurately predict important kinetically limited gas turbine phenomena such as ignition, flashback, and lean blow off. In addition, we can investigate the combined effects of chemistry and turbulence and optimize combustor performance parameters.

Enteknograte Simulation service for gas turbine combustion include:

Modeling of ignition and flame propagation with representation of the spark energy, volume, duration, and flame kernel formation and propagation
Spark modeling, combined with detailed chemistry
Effect of fuel/air ratio and burner spacing on relight propagation time
Simulating Lean blow off (LBO) including both gaseous and liquid fuels and maximize combustor performance factor for lean premixed systems to reducing flame temperatures and thus inhibiting NOx formation
Simulation Flashback ( flame speed of the fuel can overcome the flow velocity and flashback occurs and flashback occurs) of premixed fuel/air systems to investigate probability of damage to equipment.
Spray modeling of liquid fuel simulations of gas turbines including all steps of the spray process, including primary and secondary breakup, filming, splashing, coalescence, and collision.
Simulation of emissions of pollutants such as NOx, CO, and soot as a design parameters for gas turbines
Coupled combustion – CHT (conjugate heat transfer) simulation to predict combustor wall temperatures which captures flame shapes, cooling flows, and metal thermal conditions

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By using Accurate reaction mechanisms that representing every class of reaction important for combustion analysis and combination of advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combustion simulation tools such as Kiva, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Forte, AVL Fire, Converge CFD, Siemens Star-ccm+ , MSC Cradle and System Modeling software such as Matlab Simulink and GT-Suite enable Enteknograte engineering team to reduce chemistry analysis time by orders of magnitude, virtually eliminating the bottleneck that chemistry integration produces during the simulation process.

Using Simulation to Optimize Reacting Flows and Combustion

From automobile engines to gas turbine generators, reacting flow and combustion is often the key to energy efficiency, emissions, lifespan, product yield, and other performance parameters. Simulation help look deeper into reacting flow and combustion issues to understand the complex chemical reactions, fluid flow, heat transfer, electrical performance, and other factors that determine the performance of your product. Simulation enables our engineers to evaluate more design alternatives more thoroughly than traditional prototype-based design and development methods.

Hybrid & Electric Vehicles motor NVH & Vibro-Acoustics Simulation MSC Actran ESI VA one abaqus ansys CFD, FEA, SEA & BEM 6

AeroAcoustics aerodynamic noise Simulation MSC Actran ESI VA one abaqus ansys fluent star-ccm+ CFD, FEA, SEA & BEM 2

Simulation to Optimize Reacting Flows and Combustion - CFD MSC Cradle AVL Fire Ricardo Star-ccm Siemens Ansys Forte Fluent 2 — Simulation to Optimize Reacting Flows and Combustion – CFD MSC Cradle AVL Fire Ricardo Star-ccm Siemens Ansys Forte Fluent 2

Detailed combustion gasses simulation integrated with 1D system modeling

Engine simulations involve moving components, multiphase flow, combustion and heat transfer

Reactor Design & Combustion Engineering for Chemical Processing simulations multiphase flow,heat transfer siemens star-ccm+ Ansys Fluent — siemens star-ccm+ combustion simulations multiphase flow,heat transfer

Star-CCM gas turbine combustion simulation

Internal Combustion Engine simulatin 1D/3D Coupled Simulation and Co-Simulation: Detailed Chemistry & Multiphase Flow Modeling with 1D Modeling - CFD MSC Cradle AVL Fire Ricardo Star-ccm Siemens Ansys Forte Fluent — Internal Combustion Engine simulatin 1D/3D Coupled Simulation and Co-Simulation: Detailed Chemistry & Multiphase Flow Modeling with 1D Modeling – CFD MSC Cradle AVL Fire Ricardo Star-ccm Siemens Ansys Forte Fluent

Automotive Engineering: Powertrain Component Development, NVH, Combustion and Thermal simulation, Abaqus, Ansys, Ls-dyna, Siemens Star-ccm Enteknograte

Enteknograte Combustion CFD Ansys Fluent Siemens Star-ccm+ converge Cradle Numeca

Gas turbine simulation: spray, combustion, emissions, Shaft and Gear Systems, acoustic enclosures — Integrated hybrid RANS/LES of a realistic gas turbine engine.

NVH based Design and Considerations in Reacting Flows and Combustion Systems

The challenge for the NVH specialists is to support the concept and design development process by reliable recommendations just-in-time prior concept or design freeze. Enteknograte’s specialists particularly use advanced methodologies for NVH simulation and optimization:

FEA based Powertrain
Structural Optimization
Optimization of Engine Dynamics based on MBD ( Multi-Body Dynamics Simulation)
Concurrent optimization of combustion efficiency with NVH considerations
Vehicle Interior Noise Simulation based on measurement and CAE
Vehicle Exterior Noise Simulation with couple use of CFD and FEA solvers
Objective Analysis of Sound Quality

Gas Turbine Combustion CFD Simulation: Detailed Chemistry

AVL Fire, Siemens Star-ccm+, Ansys Fluent and Converge

Fuel Injectors and Spray CFD Simulation

CFD software such as MSC Cradle, AVL Fire, Siemens Star-ccm+, Ansys Fluent and Converge is well equipped to simulate fuel injectors and spray processes including liquid atomization, drop breakup, collision and coalescence, turbulent dispersion, spray cavitation, drop-wall interaction, and drop evaporation.

Spray, Combustion, Emissions, Shaft and Gear Systems, Acoustic Enclosures

Gas turbine combustion is a complex process, and it can be a challenge to achieve accurate and reliable Finite Element and CFD simulation results at a reasonable computational cost. Computational efficiency requires appropriate mesh resolution and turbulence, spray, combustion, and emissions models in CFD tools such as AVL Fire, Siemens Star-ccm+, Ansys Fluent and Converge that provide an appropriate level of detail. It needs adavnced combination of Finite Element and Acoustic Solvers to capture real-world vibration and structural performance with FEA tools such as Abaqus, Ansys and LS-Dyna and Acoustic solver such as MSC Actran and ESI VA-ONE.

CFD Simulation of Reacting Flows and Combustion

Engine & Gas Turbine, Fuel Injector & Spray, Exhaust Aftertreatment with Detailed Chemistry

Knowledge of the underlying combustion chemistry and physics enables designers of gas turbines, boilers and internal combustion engines to increase energy efficiency and fuel flexibility, while reducing emissions. Combustion System couples multiphysics simulations incorporating accurate physical models with an advanced chemistry solver to provide a complete end-to-end combustion chemistry simulation capability to optimize products that involve reacting flow.

CFD Simulation of Engine Exhaust Aftertreatment

Aftertreatment systems are a critical component to ensure emissions from engines and power generation equipment comply with environmental standards. CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations can be used as part of a rapid prototyping process to design systems that reduce NOx, CO, and particulate matter emissions with minimal efficiency and maintenance costs. Two of the main challenges in aftertreatment system design are maximizing the uniformity of flows upstream of catalysts and eliminating areas at risk for urea deposition.

1D/3D Coupled Simulation and Co-Simulation: Detailed Chemistry & Multiphase Flow Modeling with 1D Modeling

Enteknograte engineering team use advantage of CFD solver’s detailed chemistry, multiphase flow modeling, and other powerful features in coupling and co-simulation of CFD (Siemens Star-ccm+, AVL Fire, Ansys Fluent, Converge), 1D systems softwares (Matlab simulink, GT-Suite, Ricardo Wave allowing 1D/3D-coupled analyses to be performed effortlessly) and FEA software (Abaqus, Ansys, Nastran) for engine cylinder coupling, exhaust aftertreatment coupling, and fluid-structure interaction coupling simulation.

Integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning - Deep Learning with CFD & FEA Simulation

Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. It is a branch of Artificial Intelligence based on the idea that systems can learn from data, identify patterns and make decisions with minimal human intervention. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in CAE, that is Mechanical Engineering and FEA and CFD Simulations as design tools, our CAE engineers evaluate the possible changes (and limits) coming from Machine learning, whether Deep Learning (DL), or Support vector machine (SVM) or even Genetic algorithms to specify definitive influence in some optimization problems and the solution of complex systems.

Heat Transfer and Thermal Analysis: Fluid-Structure Interaction with Coupled CFD and Finite Element Based Simulation

We analyze system-level thermal management of vehicle component, including underhood, underbody and brake systems, and design for heat shields, electronics cooling, HVAC, hybrid systems and human thermal comfort. Our Finite Element (LS-Dyna, Ansys, Abaqus) and CFD simulation (Siemens Start-ccm+, Ansys Fluent , Ansys CFX and OpenFoam) for heat transfer analysis, thermal management, and virtual test process can save time and money in the design and development process, while also improving the thermal comfort and overall quality of the final product.

Acoustics and Vibration: FEA and CFD for AeroAcoustics, VibroAcoustics and NVH Analysis

Noise and vibration analysis is becoming increasingly important in virtually every industry. The need to reduce noise and vibration can arise because of government legislation, new lightweight constructions, use of lower cost materials, fatigue failure or increased competitive pressure. With deep knowledge in FEA, CFD and Acoustic simulation, advanced Acoustic solvers and numerical methods used by Enteknograte engineers to solve acoustics, vibro-acoustics, and aero-acoustics problems in automotive manufacturers and suppliers, aerospace companies, shipbuilding industries and consumer product manufacturers.

Aerodynamics Simulation: Coupling CFD with MBD, FEA and 1D-System Simulation

Aerodynamics studies can cover the full speed range of low speed, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows as well as turbulence and flow control. System properties such as mass flow rates and pressure drops and fluid dynamic forces such as lift, drag and pitching moment can be readily calculated in addition to the wake effects. This data can be used directly for design purposes or as in input to a detailed stress analysis. Aerodynamics CFD simulation with sophisticated tools such as MSC Cradle, Ansys Fluent and Siemens Star-ccm+ allows the steady-state and transient aerodynamics of heating ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) systems, vehicles, aircraft, structures, wings and rotors to be computed with extremely high levels of accuracy.

Finite Element Analysis of Durability and Fatigue Life

Vibration Fatigue, Creep, Welded Structures Fatigue, Elastomer and Composite Fatigue with Ansys Ncode, Simulia FE-Safe, MSC CAEFatigue, FEMFAT

Durability often dominates development agendas, and empirical evaluation is by its nature time-consuming and costly. Simulation provides a strategic approach to managing risk and cost by enabling design concepts or design changes to be studied before investment in physical evaluation. The industry-leading fatigue Simulation technology such as Simulia FE-SAFE, Ansys Ncode Design Life and FEMFAT used to calculate fatigue life of multiaxial, welds, short-fibre composite, vibration, crack growth, thermo-mechanical fatigue.

Multi-Phase Flows CFD Analysis

Multi-Phases flows involve combinations of solids, liquids and gases which interact. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used to accurately predict the simultaneous interaction of more than one combination of phases that can be gases, solids or fluids. Typical applications involve sprays, solid particulate transport, boiling, cavitation, state-changes, free surface flows, dispersed multiphase flows, buoyancy problems and mixed species flows. For example, the risks from flow or process-induced vibration excitation of pipework are widely acknowledged in onshore process plants, offshore topsides and subsea facilities.