Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flows

Qualification objectives

Attending the course, the students will be able to:

• compute thermophysical properties and chemical kinetics of gas mixtures;
• understand fundamentals of the finite-volume method;
• generate meshes of simple geometrical configurations;
• perform 1D and 2D simulations of reacting flows;
• perform serial and parallel simulations;
• evaluate the results in a critical way by visualization and postprocessing flow features.

Content

1. Introduction on Linux basics commands

2. Introduction on the open-source tool Cantera

3. Hand-on training for calculation of thermodynamic properties and chemical kinetics using Cantera with Python interface

4.Overview of the finite volume method

5. Introduction to OpenFoam® code structure, library organization, and compilation environment

6. Overview of the simulation setup, boundary conditions, solver and postprocessing utilities

7. Hands-on training on 1D and 2D inert and reacting flow simulations

8. Hands-on training on implementation of additional transport equations

9. Post-processing with Paraview and validation of results

Contact

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Federica Ferraro