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Numerical and experimental investigation of buoyant gas release: Application to hydrogen jets

Type of Publication
Year of Publication
2011
Authors

B. Chernyavsky; T.C. Wu; F. Peneau; P. Benard; P. Oshkai; N. Djilali

Abstract

The physics of hydrogen release from compressed storage vessels is investigated for flow conditions corresponding to a subsonic turbulent jet venting into atmosphere at a Mach number similar to 0.3 using large eddy simulations (LES) and particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements. A major focus of the work is investigation of the dynamic features of the flow and mixing processes by analyzing the detailed instantaneous data available from LES. Simulations are first conducted for a helium jet with flow parameters corresponding closely to hydrogen jet release at low Mach number in order to allow direct comparison with Ply measurements. The simulations and measurements are consistent, and show that though exact self-similarity of the turbulent jet is not achieved due to buoyancy effects, the normalized averaged velocity and concentration profiles collapse reasonably well and can be approximated by a Gaussian distribution. Analysis of the instantaneous concentration fields shows that, due to the complex dynamics of the jet, which includes flapping and vortex shedding, concentration levels above the flammability threshold occur intermittently in regions where average concentrations are low. The spatial extent of regions where flammability thresholds are exceeded is nearly twice as large when considering transient effects compared to the mean (time-averaged) flow; the possible implications for safety guidelines are important. LES results are also presented for a hydrogen jet during the transient phase following the onset of release. Compared to the stationary jet flow, the radial extent of concentration above the flammability threshold is found to increase by similar to 30%2during transients as a result of the strong vortex ring that forms when the hydrogen jet penetrates stationary ambient air. (c) 2010 Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI

10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.04.130

Volume

36

Notes

Times Cited: 0 Djilali, Ned/B-1232-2010 Djilali, Ned/0000-0002-9047-0289 3rd Three-day International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS3) Sep, 2009 Ajaccio, FRANCE 0

Pagination

2645-2655

Number
3
ISSN Number

0360-3199

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