Hydrogen reaction rate modeling based on convolutional neural network for large eddy simulation
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2025-02-10
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This article establishes a data-driven modeling framework for lean hydrogen (H2)-air reaction rates for the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent reactive flows. This is particularly challenging since H2 molecules diffuse much faster than heat, leading to large variations in burning rates, thermodiffusive instabilities at the subfilter scale, and complex turbulence-chemistry interactions. Our data-driven approach leverages a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), trained to approximate filtered burning rates from emulated LES data. First, five different lean premixed turbulent H2-air flame Direct Numerical Simulations (DNSs) are computed each with a unique global equivalence ratio. Second, DNS snapshots are filtered and downsampled to emulate LES data. Third, a CNN is trained to approximate the filtered burning rates as a function of LES scalar quantities: progress variable, local equivalence ratio, and flame thickening due to filtering. Finally, the performances of the CNN model are assessed on test solutions never seen during training. The model retrieves burning rates with very high accuracy. It is also tested on two filter and downsampling parameters and two global equivalence ratios between those used during training. For these interpolation cases, the model approximates burning rates with low error even though the cases were not included in the training dataset. This a priori study shows that the proposed data-driven machine learning framework is able to address the challenge of modeling lean premixed H2-air burning rates. It paves the way for a new modeling paradigm for the simulation of carbon-free hydrogen combustion systems.
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6
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Cambridge University Press
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Artificial intelligence; Computational fluid dynamics; Data-driven reacting flow modeling; Hydrogen combustion; Machine learning
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09471 - Noiray, Nicolas / Noiray, Nicolas
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219938 - Joint Experimental and numerical sTudy of H2 Plasma-Assisted Combustion (JETHPAC) (SNF)