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The work investigates the response dynamics of non-premixed jet flame to blast waves that are incident along the jet axis. In the present study, blast waves, generated using the wire-explosion technique, are forced to sweep across a…
(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,…
The influence of high-enthalpy effects on hypersonic turbulent boundary layers is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations (DNS). A quasi-adiabatic flat-plate air flow at free-stream Mach number equal to 10 is simulated up to…
The present theory considers the transient evolution of the temperature and fuel mass fraction distributions, and it can determine the critical heating power and minimum ignition energy for successful ignition. The flame initiation process…
The renormalization ideas of self-similar dynamics of a strongly turbulent flame front are applied to the case of a flame with realistically large thermal expansion of the burning matter. In that case a flame front is corrugated both by…
An unconfined strongly swirled flow is investigated to study the effect of hydrogen addition on upstream flame propagation in a methane-air premixed flame using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with a Thickened Flame (TF) model. A…
Compressibility effects in a turbulent transport of temperature field are investigated applying the quasi-linear approach for small P\'eclet numbers and the spectral $\tau$ approach for large P\'eclet numbers. Compressibility of a fluid…
This study presents a numerical analysis of the impact of hydrogen addition on the consumption speed of premixed lean methane-air laminar flames exposed to combined strain and heat loss. Equivalence ratios of 0.9, 0.7, and 0.5 with fuel…
Presumed probability density function (PDF) and transported PDF methods are commonly applied to model the turbulence chemistry interaction in turbulent reacting flows. However, little focus has been given to the turbulence chemistry…
In this work we clarify the role of Markstein diffusivity on turbulent flame speed and it's scaling, from analysis and experimental measurements on constant-pressure expanding flames propagating in near isotropic turbulence. For all C0-C4…
This paper experimentally analyzes the simultaneous influence of heat release and coherent vortex structures on the transfer of kinetic energy across scales around the laminar flame thickness $\delta^0_\mathrm{L}$ in a turbulent premixed…
Magnetic fields spontaneously grow at unstable interfaces around hot-spot asymmetries during inertial confinement fusion implosions. Although difficult to measure, theoretical considerations and numerical simulations predict field strengths…
Thin flame dynamics in a turbulent flow remains debated, with various parameterizations proposed for the typical flame propagation velocity. According to the classical Damk\"ohler's model based on Huygens' principle, a flame front should…
NO$_{\rm x}$ formation in lean premixed and highly-strained pure hydrogen-air flamelets is investigated numerically. Lean conditions are established at an equivalence ratio of 0.7. Detailed-chemistry, one-dimensional simulations are…
The 1-D mean-field equation describing the evolution of the subsurface toroidal field can be used together with the observed surface radial field to model the subsurface toroidal flux density. We aim to test this model and determine the…
Steady premixed flames subjected to space-periodic steady forcing are studied via inhomogeneous Michelson-Sivashinsky (MS) and then Burgers equations. For both, the flame slope is posited to comprise contributions from complex poles to…
Many processes involve mixed porous-solid fluid domains where fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reactions interact over disparate length scales, such as the combustion of multi-species solid fuels. Although many studies have…
The spontaneous evolution of magnetic reconnection in generalized situations (with thermodynamic asymmetry regarding the current sheet and magnetic shear) is investigated using two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. We focus on the…
The generation mechanism of wall heat flux is one of the fundamental problems in supersonic/hypersonic turbulent boundary layers. A novel heat decomposition formula under the curvilinear coordinate was proposed in this paper. The new…
A theory of flame propagation in curved channels is developed within the framework of the on-shell description of premixed flames. Employing the Green function appropriate to the given channel geometry, an implicit integral representation…