Development And Implementation Of A Three-Dimensional Combustion Code For Use In Glass Melting Furnaces

A fully three-dimensional computer code has been developed for predicting and analyzing combustion and heat transfer in the firebox of glass melting furnaces. The computer code models turbulent gas combustion in the three-dimensional geometry of the furnace. It is capable of predicting temperature, velocity, and species concentration distributions throughout the combustion chamber. It also spatially resolves the heat transfer to the glass/batch surface. Turbulent reacting flow and thermal field predictions are obtrained from the solution of the conservation mass, momentum, and energy equations. Gas species concentrations are calculated using a fast-kinetics, single-step combustion model for turbulent diffusion flames.