Principal Investigator William Green
Co-investigator Paul Barton
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/greengp/projects/reactflowsimul.htm
Working both with in house CFD codes (DUNS) and popular commerical CFD codes (Fluent), we are developing tools for the robust and efficient calculation of flow fields with complex chemistry. Interests lie in two areas: (1) to compute flow fields with complex chemistry robustly by looking at a number of different solvers and (2) to increase the efficiency of these schemes. One of our main strategies for doing this is using Adaptive Chemistry.
Adaptive chemistry is based on the observation that in different regions of the flow field, different types of chemistry will dominate. Instead of solving the flow field with a mechanism appropriate for the full range of conditions that exist within the flow, we allow the chemistry to'adapt'such that it solves only the chemistry appropriate for that local area. Depending on the type of flow field you are attempting to solve, the increase in efficiency could be substantial.