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Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science)  2021, Vol. 55 Issue (10): 1968-1977    DOI: 10.3785/j.issn.1008-973X.2021.10.019
    
Application of artificial neural networks to supercritical flamelet model
Zheng-wei GAO1(),Tai JIN2,Chang-cheng SONG1,Kun LUO1,Jian-ren FAN1,*()
1. State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
2. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Abstract  

Artificial neural networks (ANN) were utilized to build the library for the flamelet/progress variable (FPV) model and develop the FPV-ANN approach aiming at the problem that the enlarged lookup tables of the flamelet-based combustion model make the computer memory insufficient and slow down the interpolation process. Both the priori analysis and the large-eddy simulation of supercritical hydrothermal flames show that the distributions of temperature, species and other target variables obtained by FPV-ANN and classical FPV method achieve overall good agreement, verifying the accuracy of the FPV-ANN approach. Since the size of the ANN library is only 1% of the classical library, the use of FPV-ANN approach can produce a significant reduction in computer memory consumption during the large-scale parallel simulation. The computational speed of FPV-ANN approach is 30% faster than the classical FPV approach, which confirms that FPV-ANN approach has better computational performance.



Key wordsflamelet model      combustion simulation      artificial neural network (ANN)      flamelet library construction method      computational performance     
Received: 29 October 2020      Published: 27 October 2021
CLC:  TK 16  
Fund:  国家重点研发计划资助项目(2016YFB0600102)
Corresponding Authors: Jian-ren FAN     E-mail: gaozw@zju.edu.cn;fanjr@zju.edu.cn
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Zheng-wei GAO,Tai JIN,Chang-cheng SONG,Kun LUO,Jian-ren FAN. Application of artificial neural networks to supercritical flamelet model. Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science), 2021, 55(10): 1968-1977.

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基于人工神经网络的超临界小火焰模型研究

为了解决超临界小火焰燃烧模型数据库过于庞大,导致计算机内存不足和取值性能下降的问题,提出使用人工神经网络(ANN)进行建库的超临界小火焰/过程变量模型FPV-ANN. 在先验性分析及在超临界水热火焰的大涡模拟计算中发现,FPV-ANN方法在温度、组分和其他目标变量的分布与传统FPV方法得到的结果吻合,说明FPV-ANN方法的准确性与传统FPV方法一致. 由于人工神经网络小火焰库大小只有传统库的1%,FPV-ANN方法在大规模并行计算中消耗更少的计算机内存. FPV-ANN方法的计算速度比传统FPV方法提升了30%. 可以看出,提出的FPV-ANN方法具有更好的计算性能.


关键词: 小火焰模型,  燃烧模拟,  人工神经网络(ANN),  小火焰库建库方法,  计算性能 
案例 各维度上的格子数( $ Z\times {Z}^{{'}{'}2}\times C $ 小火焰库大小/MB
1 150×10×50 60
2 300×25×300 600
3 600×50×600 4800
Tab.1 Size of flamelet libraries with various accuracies built with structed table method
Fig.1 Schematic of architecture of artificial neural network
Fig.2 ANNs training results: regression plots of target variables
Fig.3 Geometry and dimensions of injector and combustion chamber for WCHB
Fig.4 Priori validation of FPV-ANN approach at dimension $ Z $ ( $ C $= 0.117, $ {Z}^{{'}{'}2} $=0.15)
Fig.5 Contours of temperature obtained by FPV-ANN method
Fig.6 Time-averaged distributions of target variables along axis
Fig.7 Distributions of temperature and H2 mass fraction in Z-C space ( $ {Z}^{{'}{'}2} $=0)
Fig.8 Computational performance analysis of FPV-ANN and FPV-ST methods
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