Technology Transfer

Numerical Code Able to Simulate Turbulent Combustion and Multiphysics Phenomena: CEDRE

Applications

 > Automotive, Naval, Thermal Energy, Aeronautical

• Subsonic and supersonic combustion chambers.
• Forecast of pollutant and smoke emissions.
• Instabilities of combustion.
• Complete engine multi-physics calculations.
• Development of advanced combustion chamber technologies and the reheating of turbo engines in complex geometries.
• General modeling and numerical simulation of energetic systems.

 >  Environment

• Water treatment plants.

Keywords

• Energy, Turbojet, Ramjet, Scramjet, Pulsed detonation engines, Turbulent combustion, Advanced combustion chamber technologies, Micro energetics, Energetic materials, Fuels.

Advantages

• CEDRE – Advanced numerical code able to simulate turbulent combustion and multi-physics phenomena.
• Simulation and development of supersonic combustion chambers.

Testing

• Combustion Chambers

  • Study and installation of combustion testing on operational or prototype combustion chambers.
  • modeling of reactive processes and associated numerical simulation taking into account physical phenomena encountered in a combustion chamber; two phase flow, turbulence combustion interaction, pollutant and smoke emissions (soot and nitrogen oxides) and impact on radiative heat transfer.

• Virtual testing

  • modeling and numerical simulation of complex reactive flow in realistic geometries such as intakes, nozzles, or turbine blades.

• Software for numerical simulation

  • CEDRE – Advanced numerical code able to simulate turbulent combustion and multi-physics phenomena.

Expertise

• Design of combustion chambers.
• Assistance with critical experiments.
  • Development of methodology.
  • Control, test, diagnose.
  • Results collated.
• Extensive databanks backed by validated models.

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