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Old   December 17, 2019, 03:59
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Hi!

I am trying to implement a model for a single phase flow reaction with an energy equation to model non-isothermal effects. But the formulation of the energy equation in the system is something I am trying to figure out.

The model thus far:
Navier-Stokes:

\nabla \cdot \bold{u} = 0

\frac{\partial}{\partial t}(\bold{u}) + \nabla \cdot (\bold{u} \otimes \bold{u}) - \nabla \cdot (\nu \nabla\bold{u}) = -\nabla p

Species transport:
\frac{\partial C_{i}}{\partial t} + \bold{u}\cdot \nabla C_{i} = D_{ij}\nabla^{2}C_{i} + R_{i}

Energy Equation:

This is where I am a bit unsure. I have seen a formulation energy equation that accounts a term for "energy flux by molecular diffusion" (Froment & Bischoff) which is the last term in the equation below:

\sum_{j}MW_{j} \ C_{j} \ c_{p,j}\bigg( \frac{\partial T}{\partial t} + \bold{u}\cdot \nabla T \bigg) = \nabla \cdot (\lambda \nabla T) + \sum_{i}(-\Delta H_{i})r_{i} - \sum_{j}\bold{J}_{j}\nabla H_{j}

But I am more familiar with the following formulation which has 1) transient term, 2) advective term, 3) diffusive term and 4) source term which would be the heat of reaction:

\frac{\partial T}{\partial t} + \bold{u}\cdot \nabla T = \alpha \nabla^{2}T + S

So would the additional term (energy flux by molecular diffusion) be necessary for a good model for such a reactive flow problem.
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The answer to your question depends on the problem you want to solve.

Your heat flux due to species diffusion in your energy equation is a very simple approximation of Onsager reciprocal relations, namely the Dufour effect, based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

What problem do you want to solve?

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The diffusion of energy is more generally written as: \nabla \cdot \bold{q}
where q is a generalized diffusive energy flux. For homogeneous media, q is only heat diffusion from Fourier's law: \bold{q}=-k \nabla T
You can of course use, \alpha = \frac{k}{\rho c_p}, to write it in terms of thermal diffusivity instead of thermal conductivity. For multi-component problems, there is diffusion of heat via concentration gradients, which is the last term in your equation.

If you derive your energy equation assuming diffusion of heat is only via heat conduction/diffusion then you end up with: \frac{\partial T}{\partial t} + \bold{u}\cdot \nabla T = \alpha \nabla^{2}T + S

The source is a fudge factor because you didn't account for any possible chemical reactions or alternative forms of energy transport. Note that when the equation is written in this way, S is a temperature source. It's not even an energy source!

If you properly derive an energy transport equation starting with conservation of total energy then you should get the more complicated looking thing you showed:
\sum_{j}MW_{j} \ C_{j} \ c_{p,j}\bigg( \frac{\partial T}{\partial t} + \bold{u}\cdot \nabla T \bigg) = \nabla \cdot (\lambda \nabla T) + \sum_{i}(-\Delta H_{i})r_{i} - \sum_{j}\bold{J}_{j}\nabla H_{j}

The heat of reaction is contained in the term: \sum_{i}(-\Delta H_{i})r_{i}

The contribution of heat diffusion via temperature gradients vs species gradients depends on the problem. If the reaction is nearly isothermal, then species diffusion will dominate. If the reaction is highly exothermic, then thermal diffusion dominates.

It may also be important to mention that these are the time-accurate equations (which means you are doing DNS, whether laminar or turbulent). If you do time/Reynolds-averaging, the contribution of turbulent transport also needs to be taken into account and this gets even more wonky.

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Thanks for your really valuable insights regarding the Dufour effects. Fortunately it seems that neglecting the Dufour effect is not a bad assumption for many cases of reacting flows.

For others' reference, I found that this book was great for outlining the derivation of the model equations and also discusses the Dufour effects with some detail: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540686224.
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