Three Dimensional Reactive Flow Analysis of A Generic Gas Turbine Combustion Chamber Using CFD

This project presents the design of combustion chamber and analyzing it by introducing a swirler nozzle at the inlet. Analysis is carried out both for the static inlet nozzle and swirler nozzle to understand the behavior of the fuel inside the chamber. The fluid used here is propane ( C3H8 ). The computational approach attempts to make a reasonable balance to handle the aspects of complicated physics and chemical interactions of the flow. Accordingly, in this study an attempt has been made by using CFD approach using ANSYS FLUENT 15 to analyze the behavior of the fuel and the flow pattern within the combustion chamber and also parameters such as static temperature, temperature distribution, velocity magnitude, and temperature at the chamber walls at the exit of combustion chamber is obtained. And the comparision is made for static and swirler nozzle all the above mentioned parameters to conclude the results of the combustion process.