Chemical source term filtered

For turbulent reacting flows, LES introduces an additional closure problem due to filtering of the chemical source term (Cook and Riley 1994 Cook et al. 1997 Jimenez el al. 1997 Cook and Riley 1998 Desjardin and Frankel 1998 Wall et al. 2000). For the one-step... 

In Section 4.2, the LES composition PDF was introduced to describe the effect of residual composition fluctuations on the chemical source term. As noted there, the LES composition PDF is a conditional PDF for the composition vector given that the filtered velocity and filtered compositions are equal to U and 0, respectively. The LES composition PDF is denoted by U, 0 x, /), and a closure model is required to describe it. 

Hence, it is not necessary to solve a separate LES transport equation for the filtered compositions. Indeed, in the limit of one environment, (5.422) reduces to the LES model for the filtered compositions with the simplest possible closure for the chemical source term (i.e., one that neglects all SGS fluctuations). 

The SGS turbulence model employed is the compressible form of the dynamic Smagorinsky model [17, 18]. The SGS combustion model involves a direct closure of the filtered reaction rate using the scale-similarity filtered reaction rate model. Derivation of the model starts with the reaction rate for the ith species, to i", which represents the volumetric rate of formation or consumption of a species due to chemical reaction and appears as a source term on the right hand side of the species conservation equations ... 

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