Abstract
To design a low-emission hydrogen-fired gas turbine combustor, prevention of flashback is one of key issues. However, the detailed measurement of flashback is difficult and expensive, especially at the actual operation condition. Therefore, the high-precision numerical simulation technology is important to study the mechanism and countermeasures of flashback. In this study, a large eddy simulation (LES) using a non-adiabatic flamelet-generated manifold (NA-FGM) approach, considering the effects of heat loss, is applied to simulate hydrogen-air premixed flame propagating in a rectangular channel. Then, the validity of predicting flashback limits is examined. The results show that the NA-FGM approach quantitatively well captures the flashback limits variation observed in the experiments. This indicates that accounting for the influence of heat loss is crucial in achieving precise prediction of the flashback in developing a low-emission hydrogen gas turbine combustor.
