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The Application of Combustion LES Within Industry

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Within this paper the combustion CFD approach which is followed within Rolls-Royce is described. Combustion CFD computations are based on the in-house code PRECISE-UNS.

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Acknowledgements

Part of the presented work and experimental data has been achieved within the 7th framework project “Fuel Injector Research for Sustainable Transport” (FIRST), funded by the European Commission under contract FP7-AAT-2010-RTD-1. Furthermore, the work has been done in cooperation of the global combustion method team: Max Staufer and Torsten Voigt (Rolls-Royce Deutschland), Marco Zedda, Chris Goddard and Simon Stow (Rolls-Royce plc, Derby, UK), M.S. Anand, Jiang Zhu and Cris Nastasa (Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, USA).

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    Ruud L. G. M. Eggels

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Dimokratis G.E. Grigoriadis

  2. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Bernard J. Geurts

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Hans Kuerten

  4. Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Jochen Fröhlich

  5. Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Vincenzo Armenio

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Eggels, R.L.G.M. (2018). The Application of Combustion LES Within Industry. In: Grigoriadis, D., Geurts, B., Kuerten, H., Fröhlich, J., Armenio, V. (eds) Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation X. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63212-4_1

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