Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.31, No.7, 964-970, 2008
Evaluation of an entropy-based combustion model using stochastic reactors
The entropy transport concept (ETC) presented in this paper is a novel approach to describe reaction systems such that the dynamic behavior of a chemical system can be reproduced with a minimum in independent parameters. It is shown that, for adiabatic conditions, the mixture fraction and the reaction entropy are sufficient to describe combustion processes without significant loss of information. Entropy is used as a measure of the reaction progress in this context. In order to evaluate the applicability of the ETC for combustion modeling in turbulent systems, the entropy transport concept was implemented into a stochastic reactor model. For several test cases, the results of this ETC-based reactor were compared with a reactor that directly integrates the species transport equations.