ABAurélien Bienner

Aurélien Bienner

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  • Effets de gaz-réel sur la transition freestream et les pertes au sein des turbines ORC

    by Aurélien Bienner

    Les cycles de Rankine organique (ORC) apparaissent comme l'une des solutions pour répondre aux défis énergétiques et environnementaux actuels, en raison de leur important potentiel énergétique. L'un des composants clés des ORC est le détendeur, généralement une turbine. Pour les petits systèmes, cette dernière fonctionne dans les régimes transsoniques à supersoniques et peut être influencée par les propriétés de la vapeur organique utilisée, présentant ainsi des effets non idéaux. Dans cette étude, nous examinons les transitions de couche limite (CL) et le mécanisme des pertes au sein des turbines dans des conditions représentatives des ORC pour le fluide Novec649. Nous débutons par la présentation des premières simulations numériques directes (DNS) et des simulations à grandes échelles (LES) de CL transitionnant et turbulentes de Novec dans des conditions subsoniques élevées. Dans l'état turbulent, les profils des propriétés dynamiques de l'écoulement sont peu affectés par les propriétés du gaz et demeurent très proches de la DNS incompressible, malgré la vitesse élevée de l'écoulement subsonique, même si de véritables mais très faibles effets de compressibilité sont présents. Notre stratégie LES est validée par rapport à la DNS et est utilisée pour étudier l'influence de la fréquence et de l'amplitude du forçage sur l'état turbulent établi. Ensuite, pour la première fois, nous étudions, par LES, la transition induite par la turbulence extérieure (FST) de CL de gaz dense sur des plaques planes et autour du bord d'attaque d'une turbine. En raison du nombre de Reynolds élevé, les fines CL interagissent avec de larges structures turbulentes qui peuvent, pour des intensités relativement élevées, favoriser un mécanisme de transition non linéaire au lieu du mécanisme classique de transition par stries laminaires. Comparées au Novec, les CL d'air se révèlent légèrement plus instables mais conservent globalement des caractéristiques similaires, notamment en ce qui concerne les mécanismes de transition observés. Enfin, l'écoulement autour d'une configuration idéalisée d'aube est abordé au moyen de simulations DDES (Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulations), permettant une analyse fine des phénomènes instationnaires. À mesure que la non-idéalité de l'écoulement augmente, le rapport de pression diminue et les pertes augmentent. Comparativement à l'air, la capacité thermique élevée du Novec réduit les fluctuations de température, éliminant ainsi le phénomène dit de séparation d'énergie, tout en accentuant les fluctuations de pression dans le sillage. En comparaison avec les DDES, les simulations RANS conduisent à une sous-estimation des pertes d'environ 20%.

  • Roughness Effects on Dense-Gas Turbine Flow: Comparison of Experiments and Simulations

    by Xavier Gloerfelt, Leander Hake, Aurélien Bienner, Camille Matar, Paola Cinnella, Stefan Aus der Wiesche

    This article presents a combined numerical and experimental study of the high-subsonic organic vapor flow in a linear turbine cascade. The profile geometry is the well-documented LS59 highly loaded rotor blade and the working fluid is Novec649, a dense gas used in organic Rankine cycles. Large eddy simulations are carried out with and without the roughness introduced by the additive manufacturing process. The results for the rough blade are in fair agreement with experiments, while the smooth surface induces a change in the vortex shedding regime. A detached shedding, characterized by a long recirculation downstream of the trailing edge and a base pressure plateau, is obtained in the experiments and by discretizing the roughness in the simulation. By contrast, a transonic vortex shedding is established when the surface is smooth: intense vortices roll up immediately after the trailing edge, yielding a short bubble and a lattice of shock waves. A strong pressure drop is observed at the trailing edge, resulting in high profile losses. In both cases, the boundary layer is turbulent ahead of the separation, but its thickness is significantly greater in the rough configuration, which may be the reason for the change of regime.


  • Influence of large-scale free-stream turbulence on bypass transition in air and organic vapour flows

    by Aurelien Bienner, Xavier Gloerfelt, Paola Cinnella

    The free-stream turbulence (FST) induced transition in perfect and non-ideal gas zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate boundary layers is investigated by means of large-eddy simulations. The study focuses on the influence of large incoming disturbances over the laminar-to-turbulent transition, by comparing two different integral length scales $L_f$ , which differ by a factor of seven, at different FST intensities $T_u$ . High-subsonic dense-gas boundary layers of the organic vapour Novec649, representative of organic Rankine cycle applications, are compared with air flows at Mach numbers 0.1 and 0.9. Compressibility and non-ideal gas effects are shown to be of minor importance in comparison to the influence of the FST integral length scale $L_f$ . An increase of the inlet turbulent intensity always promotes transition, whereas an increase of $L_f$ has a double effect on the transition onset. At $T_u=2.5\,\%$ , increasing $L_f$ promotes the transition, while it tends to delay transition for an FST intensity of 4 %. Larger FST integral scales tend to increase the spanwise distance between laminar streaks generated in the boundary layer. Two competing transition scenarios are observed. When the incoming turbulence intensity and length scale are moderate, the classical bypass route consists in the linear non-modal growth of streaks, which then experience secondary instabilities (sinuous or varicose) and lead to the generation of turbulent spots. The second scenario is characterized by the appearance of $\Lambda$ -shaped structures near the inlet, which are further stretched to hairpin vortices before breaking down to turbulence. Spot inceptions can therefore occur at earlier locations than the streak growth. We are then faced with a competition between the classical bypass transition and nonlinear response mechanisms that ‘bypass’ this route. The present case at high $L_f$ and low $T_u$ is an example of a competing scenario, but even for the higher $T_u$ and $L_f$ conditions, only approximately one-third of turbulent spots are due to the $\Lambda$ -shaped events. The nonlinear alternative route has strong similarities with scenarios described previously in the literature in the presence of leading edge effects or due to passing wakes. Such a path is governed by the turbulence intensity, but also by the integral length scale, with both parameters playing a critical role in the generation of the $\Lambda$ -shaped structures near the inlet. This alternative mechanism is found to be robust under varying flow and thermodynamic conditions.


  • Open Access

    High-subsonic boundary-layer flows of an organic vapour

    by Xavier Gloerfelt, Aurélien Bienner, Paola Cinnella

    Boundary layers of Novec649, a low-global-warming potential fluid of interest for low-grade heat recovery, are investigated numerically by means of linear stability theory, direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES). This organic vapour is of interest in organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbines and realistic thermodynamic conditions are selected. Under these conditions, the vapour behaves as a dense gas and, due to its high molecular complexity, real-gas effects occur. In addition, the fluid exhibits large and highly variable heat capacities and density- as well as temperature-dependent transport properties. More specifically we report the first direct and LES of transitional and turbulent boundary layers of Novec649 at high-subsonic conditions $M=0.9$ . A controlled transition is performed by using oblique modes determined by linear stability theory extended to dense gases. An oblique-type transition is obtained as in low-speed air flows, where sinuous streaks develop by the lift-up mechanism and break down into turbulence. In the turbulent state, the profiles of dynamic flow properties (velocities, turbulent intensities, turbulent kinetic energy budgets) are little affected by the gas properties and remain very close to incompressible DNS, despite the high-subsonic flow speed. The fluctuations levels for thermodynamic properties have been quantified with respect to air flows. Notwithstanding a drastic reduction, genuine compressibility effects are present. For example, the fluctuating Mach number and the acoustic mode are characteristic of high-speed flows. The influence of forcing frequency and amplitude on the established turbulent state has been investigated using LES. An analysis of integral quantities shows a slow relaxation towards a canonical equilibrium turbulent state for all cases due to the high Reynolds numbers typical of dense gas flows. Overall the present DNS constitutes a valuable reference not only for forthcoming experiments but also for future studies of free-stream transition and loss mechanisms in ORC turbines.


  • Grid-Generated Decaying Turbulence in an Organic Vapour Flow

    by Leander Hake, Stefan Aus der Wiesche, Stephan Sundermeier, Aurélien Bienner, Xavier Gloerfelt, Paola Cinnella