Simulation of propane-air swirling diffusion combustion was carried out by large-eddy simulation (LES) using the Smagorinsky-Lilly SGS turbulence model and the EBU SGS combustion model
and by RANS modeling using the second-order moment (SOM) combustion model.The simulation results were compared with detailed experimental results for three components of statistically averaged and fluctuation velocities
temperature
propane
oxygen and CO2 concentration distributions.The results indicate that the RANS-SOM results are better than the LES-EBU results.Hence the EBU SGS combustion model needs to be improved and the SOM combustion model can be further used to predict engineering swirling combustion.