. Assessment of the Evolution Equation Modelling approach for threedimensional expanding wrinkled premixed flames. Combustion and Flame, Elsevier, 2012, 159 (5), pp.1932-1948. <10.1016/j.combustflame.2011
AbstractDirect Numerical Simulations (DNS), Evolution Equation Modelling (EEM) and Experimental results from the literature (EXP) are presented and analyzed for an expanding propane/air flame. DNS results are obtained thanks to the in-house finite-difference code HAllegro. Computed (DNS/EEM) and measured (EXP) equivalent radii R P and R S , mean stretch k and consumption velocity S C , as well as sample front shapes, are compared using to the same post-processing methodology. Small perturbations in the EEM input parameters induce comparatively small shifts in the compared results, showing the robustness of the approach. When slightly adapting only one O(1) parameter for the EEM strategy (the effective turbulent forcing amplitude felt by the flame), DNS and EEM show quite fair agreement one with the other and also with EXP, except for one of the experiments at early times. In the context of expanding flames, this validated EEM methodology can constitute a reliable tool to compute realisticly large sized flames.