Non-premixed combustion in rotary kilns using OpenFOAM: the effect of conjugate heat transfer and external radiative heat loss on the reacting flow and the wall

The wish to reduce the environmental footprint and to enhance economic gains of rotary kilns pushes the numerical simulation of combustion to include conjugate heat transfer. In this paper we study the influence of the refractory wall and radiative heat loss to the ambient, on the combustion process of a reference kiln model. Numerical results...