Imperial College London
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Dr Stelios Rigopoulos

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Reader in Thermofluids
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7108s.rigopoulos

 
 
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620City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Citation

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@article{Akridis:2016:10.1080/13647830.2016.1213426,
author = {Akridis, P and Rigopoulos, S},
doi = {10.1080/13647830.2016.1213426},
journal = {Combustion Theory and Modelling},
pages = {35--48},
title = {Modelling of soot formation in laminar diffusion flames using a comprehensive CFD-PBE model with detailed gas-phase chemistry},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13647830.2016.1213426},
volume = {21},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - A discretised population balance equation (PBE) is coupled with an in-house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code in order to model soot formation in laminar diffusion flames. The unsteady Navier–Stokes, species and enthalpy transport equations and the spatially-distributed discretised PBE for the soot particles are solved in a coupled manner, together with comprehensive gas-phase chemistry and an optically thin radiation model, thus yielding the complete particle size distribution of the soot particles. Nucleation, surface growth and oxidation are incorporated into the PBE using an acetylene-based soot model. The potential of the proposed methodology is investigated by comparing with experimental results from the Santoro jet burner [Santoro, Semerjian and Dobbins, Soot particle measurements in diffusion flames, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 51 (1983), pp. 203–218; Santoro, Yeh, Horvath and Semerjian, The transport and growth of soot particles in laminar diffusion flames, Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 53 (1987), pp. 89–115] for three laminar axisymmetric non-premixed ethylene flames: a non-smoking, an incipient smoking and a smoking flame. Overall, good agreement is observed between the numerical and the experimental results.
AU  - Akridis,P
AU  - Rigopoulos,S
DO  - 10.1080/13647830.2016.1213426
EP  - 48
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1741-3559
SP  - 35
TI  - Modelling of soot formation in laminar diffusion flames using a comprehensive CFD-PBE model with detailed gas-phase chemistry
T2  - Combustion Theory and Modelling
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13647830.2016.1213426
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/34623
VL  - 21
ER  -
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