utwordmark

Seminars
Events Calendar help
See Today
UpComing this month
Previous month Previous day
Next day Next month
Fluids Seminar: Bayesian analysis of syngas chemistry models
Thursday, January 24, 2013,  3:30PM
Kalen Bramen
Graduate Student
The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract: Syngas chemistry modeling is an integral step toward the development of safe and efficient syngas combustors. Although substantial effort has been undertaken to improve the modeling of syngas combustion, models nevertheless fail in regimes important to gas turbine combustors, such as low temperature and high pressure. In order to investigate the capabilities of syngas models, a Bayesian framework for the quantification of uncertainties has been used. This framework, given a set of experimental data, allows for the calibration of model parameters, determination of uncertainty in those parameters, propagation of that uncertainty into simulations, as well as determination of model evidence from a set of candidate syngas models. Here, three syngas combustion models have been calibrated using laminar flame speed measurements from high pressure experiments. After calibration the resulting uncertainty in the parameters is propagated forward into the simulation of laminar flame speeds. The model evidence then is used to compare candidate models for the given set of experimental conditions and results. Additionally, the technique MUM-PCE, an uncertainty minimization method for kinetics models, has been compared to the Bayesian method for this application to the prediction of syngas laminar flame speeds. This comparison shows the importance of uncertainty modeling itself in the UQ context.

Location  WRW 113
Contact  Dr. Raja

Back