CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) provides design and engineering services for combustion applications. Combustion problems generally involve complicated geometries, complex physics, heat transfer, and fluid flow. In such a challenging environment, the benefits from CFD modeling cannot be overstated.

Since combustion systems are extremely costly to build and test, CFD can be a valuable tool to assess different designs, perform parametric studies and virtual prototype each design before actual fabrication.

CFDRC uses a variety of analysis tools. All have been fully validated for combustion problems and have many features developed especially for combustor analysis, including:

• Multi-step, reversible, stiff, finite-rate chemical kinetics for a wide-range of fuels
• In-Situ Adaptive Tabulation (ISAT) schemes for efficient chemistry computations
• Basic and extended mechanisms for NOx predictions
• Swirler boundary conditions
• Mass flow boundary conditions
• Detailed spray description options, and advanced atomization and vaporization models
• Multimedia conjugate heat transfer

Capability includes one-day execution of two million cell, unstructured, parallel steady state calculations using spray models and multi-step kinetics on a cluster of 16 PCs. Full protection of your proprietary data is guaranteed.

For more information or a discussion on your specific needs, please contact us.

Typical Full Combustor Simulation

Profiles of Velocity Magnitude just Downstream of a Combustor Dome Swirler

Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of Combustor Heat Shield

LES Analysis of DOE
SIMVAL Combustor