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Deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) can occur in environments ranging from experimental and industrial systems to astrophysical thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae explosions. Substantial progress has been made in explaining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-01 Alexei Y. Poludnenko , Thomas A. Gardiner , Elaine S. Oran

The problem of deflagration-to-detonation transition in an unconfined environment is revisited. With a freely expanding self-accelerating hydrogen-oxygen flame as an example, it is shown that deflagration-to-detonation transition is indeed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-28 Andrey Koksharov , Leonid Kagan , Gregory Sivashinsky

The delayed detonation model describes the observational properties of the majority of type Ia supernovae very well. Using numerical data from a three-dimensional deflagration model for type Ia supernovae, the intermittency of the turbulent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 W. Schmidt , F. Ciaraldi-Schoolmann , J. C. Niemeyer , F. K. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt

Analyzed in this paper are three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) data obtained from seven statistically planar and one-dimensional, lean complex-chemistry hydrogen-air flames propagating in a box with forced turbulence. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 H. C. Lee , P. Dai , M. Wan , Andrei N. Lipatnikov

Turbulence significantly influences the dynamics of flame in SNIa. The large Reynolds number makes impossible the direct numerical simulations of turbulence, and different models of turbulence have to be used. Here we present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-27 S. Glazyrin

Pulverized iron flames stabilized in a multidimensional hot counterflow burner are simulated using a numerical model, which is extended from the state-of-the-art model developed by Hazenberg and van Oijen (PCI, 2021) considering unsteady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xu Wen , Arne Scholtissek , Jeroen van Oijen , Jeffery Bergthorson , Christian Hasse

We study a type Ia supernova explosion using three-dimensional numerical simulations based on reactive fluid dynamics. We consider a delayed-detonation model that assumes a deflagration-to-detonation transition. In contrast to the pure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Vadim N. Gamezo , Alexei M. Khokhlov , Elaine S. Oran

The dynamics of the explosive burning process is highly sensitive to the flame speed model in numerical simulations of type Ia supernovae. Based upon the hypothesis that the effective flame speed is determined by the unresolved turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , W. Hillebrandt , F. K. Roepke

In this paper we consider ignition-temperature, first-order reaction model of thermo-diffusive combustion that describes dynamics of thick flames arising in a theory of combustion of hydrogen-oxygen and ethylene-oxygen mixtures. These…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-03 Nathan Kilker , Dmitry Golovaty , Peter V. Gordon , Leonid Kagan , Gregory I. Sivashinsky

We study a Type Ia supernova explosion using large-scale three-dimensional numerical simulations based on reactive fluid dynamics with a simplified mechanism for nuclear reactions and energy release. The initial deflagration stage of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vadim N. Gamezo , Alexei M. Khokhlov , Elaine S. Oran

We study the dynamics of thermonuclear flames propagating in fuel stirred by stochastic forcing. The fuel consists of carbon and oxygen in a state which is encountered in white dwarfs close to the Chandrasekhar limit. The level set method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Schmidt , W. Hillebrandt , J. C. Niemeyer

The current work examines regimes of the hydrogen-oxygen flame propagation and ignition of mixtures heated by radiation emitted from the flame. The gaseous phase is assumed to be transparent for the radiation, while the suspended particles…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-24 Michael A. Liberman M. FIvanov , A. D. Kiverin

We present the results of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the subsonic thermonuclear burning phase in type Ia supernovae. The burning front model contains no adjustable parameters so that variations of the explosion outcome…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Reinecke , W. Hillebrandt , J. C. Niemeyer

A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the heliosheath and outer heliosphere (OH) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid OH that couples a…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

The collapse of degenerate oxygen-neon cores (i.e., electron-capture supernovae or accretion-induced collapse) proceeds through a phase in which a deflagration wave ("flame") forms at or near the center and propagates through the star. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Josiah Schwab , R. Farmer , F. X. Timmes

Microturbulence in magnetic confined plasmas contributes to energy exchange between particles of different species as well as the particle and heat fluxes. Although the effect of turbulent energy exchange has not been considered significant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 T. Kato , H. Sugama , T. -H. Watanabe , M. Nunami

The relationship between a decaying plasma turbulence and proton fire hose instabilities in a slowly expanding plasma is investigated using three-dimensional (3-D) hybrid expanding box simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 P. Hellinger , L. Matteini , S. Landi , L. Franci , A. Verdini , E. Papini

Lean turbulent premixed hydrogen/air flames have substantially increased flame speeds, commonly attributed to differential diffusion effects. In this work, the effect of turbulence on lean hydrogen combustion is studied through Direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-20 Matthew X. Yao , Guillaume Blanquart

Understanding the interactions between hydrogen flame and turbulent vortices is important for developing the next-generation carbon neutral combustion systems. In the present work, we perform several direct numerical simulation (DNS) cases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-25 Yifan Xu , Zhi X. Chen

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flames play a key role in the explosions of Type Ia supernovae. However, the dynamics of these flames is still not well-understood. RT unstable flames are affected by both the RT instability of the flame front…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-04 E. P. Hicks