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The combustion instability is investigated computationally for a ten-injector rocket engine using the compressible flamelet progress variable (FPV) model and detached eddy simulation (DES). An C++ code is developed based on OpenFOAM 4.1 to…
The combustion instability is investigated computationally for a multi-injector rocket engine using the flamelet progress variable (FPV) model. A C++ code is developed based on OpenFOAM 4.0 to apply the combustion model. Flamelet tables are…
In order to reduce CO2 emissions, hydrogen combustion has become increasingly relevant for technical applications. In this context, lean H2-air flames show promising features but, among other characteristics, they tend to exhibit…
The present paper deals with the numerical study of high pressure LOx/H2 or LOx/hydrocarbon combustion for propulsion systems. The present research effort is driven by the continued interest in achieving low cost, reliable access to space…
Flamelet Progress Variable (FPV) combustion models allow the evaluation of all thermo chemical quantities in a reacting flow by computing only the mixture fraction Z and a progress variable C. When using such a method to predict a turbulent…
This work presents a numerical study of a diffusion flame in a reacting, two-dimensional, turbulent, viscous, multi-component, compressible mixing layer subject to a large favorable streamwise pressure gradient. The boundary-layer equations…
This work examines the physical consistency of the conventional Flamelet Progress Variable (FPV) model for diffusion flame simulations and and introduces a new compressible flamelet formulation that employs the turbulent kinetic energy…
Self-excited spinning mode azimuthal instability in an annular combustor with non-swirling flow is investigated using large eddy simulation (LES). Compressible Navier-Stoke equations are solved with a flamelet combustion model to describe…
A three-dimensional flamelet model considering vortex stretching with unitary Lewis number is used to simulate diluted hydrogen-oxygen diffusion flames. Non-reacting nitrogen is used as the diluent gas in the fuel stream. Unitary Lewis…
(Abridged) A series of three-dimensional numerical simulations is used to study the intrinsic stability of high-speed turbulent flames. Calculations model the interaction of a fully-resolved premixed flame with a highly subsonic,…
Flamelet-based methods are extensively used in modeling turbulent hydrocarbon flames. However, these models have yet to be established for (lean) premixed hydrogen flames. While flamelet models exist for laminar thermo-diffusively unstable…
The article investigates liquid oxygen (LOx)-methane supercritical combustion dynamics in a multi-element rocket scale combustor using large eddy simulation (LES). A complex framework of real gas thermodynamics and flamelet generated…
This paper provides an improved flamelet/progress variable (FPV) model for the simulation of turbulent combustion, employing the statistically most likely distribution (SMLD) approach for the joint probability density function (PDF) of the…
Combustion instabilities are a major concern in the design of Liquid Rocket Engines (LREs) and gas turbines. During this PhD work, several directions were explored to understand and mitigate their effects. First, more efficient and robust…
The simulation of turbulent combustion phenomena is still an open problem in modern fluid dynamics. Considering the economical importance of hydrocarbon combustion in energy production processes, it is evident the need of an accurate tool…
A new unsteady flamelet model is developed to be used for sub-grid modeling and coupling with the resolved flow description for turbulent combustion. Difficulties with prior unsteady flamelet models are identified. The model extends the…
Neural networks (NN) are implemented as sub-grid flame models in a large-eddy simulation of a single-injector liquid-propellant rocket engine with the aim to replace a look-up table approach. The NN training process presents an…
An extension to the classical FPV model is developed for transcritical real-fluid combustion simulations in the context of finite volume, fully compressible, explicit solvers. A double-flux model is developed for transcritical flows to…
Combustion stabilization and enhancement of the flammability limits are mandatory objectives to improve nowadays combustion chambers. At this purpose, the use of an electric field in the flame region provides a solution which is, at the…
In this paper, neural network (NN)-based models are generated to replace flamelet tables for sub-grid modeling in large-eddy simulations of a single-injector liquid-propellant rocket engine. In the most accurate case, separate NNs for each…