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Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Volume 11, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 119-192
PDF methods for turbulent reactive flows
S.B. Pope
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Abstract
The aim of the methods described is to calculate the properties of turbulent reactive flow
fields. At each point in the flow field, a complete statistical description of the state of the
fluid is provided by the velocity-composition joint pdf. This is the joint probability
density function (pdf) of the three components of velocity and of the composition
variables (species mass fractions and enthalpy). The principal method described is to
solve a modelled transport equation for the velocity-composition joint pdf. For a
variable-density flow with arbitrarily complex and nonlinear reactions, it is remarkable
that in this equation the effects of convection, reaction, body forces and the mean
pressure gradient appear exactly and so do not have to be modelled. Even though the
joint pdf is a function of many independent variables, its transport equation can be
solved by a Monte Carlo method for the inhomogeneous flows of practical interest. A
second method that is described briefly is to solve a modelled transport equation for the
composition joint pdf.
The objective of the paper is to provide a comprehensive and understandable of the
theoretical foundations of the pdf approach.
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