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Turbulent premixed flames are important for power generation using gas turbines. Improvements in characterization and understanding of turbulent flames continue particularly for transient events like ignition and extinction. Pockets or…
Preferential diffusion plays a critical role in the evolution of lean premixed hydrogen flames, influencing flame surface corrugation and overall flame behavior. Simulating such flames with tabulated chemistry (TC) methods remains…
This work presents an experimental set of Bunsen flames characterized by a moderate Reynolds number and a variable turbulence intensity. Ten lean hydrogen-enriched methane-air mixtures at three levels of turbulence are investigated, ranging…
Understanding the detailed flame transport in IC engines is important to predict ignition, rate of heat release and assess engine performance. This is particularly important for RANS and LES engine simulations, which often struggle to…
Global instabilities in swirling flows can significantly alter the flame and flow dynamics of swirl-stabilized flames, such as those in modern power generation gas turbine engines. In this study, we characterize the interaction between the…
A turbulent side-wall quenching (SWQ) flame in a fully developed channel flow is studied using Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) with a tabulated chemistry approach. Three different flamelet manifolds with increasing levels of complexity are…
The paper aims at assessing a hypothesis that resolution required to evaluate fuel consumption and heat release rates by directly (i.e., without a subgrid model of unresolved influence of small-scale turbulent eddies on the local flame)…
Propagation of premixed flames having thick reaction zones in rapidly-varying, small-scale, zero-mean, spatio-temporal periodic flows is considered. Techniques of large activation energy asymptotics and homogenization theory are used to…
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…
This study explores the integration of machine learning (ML) techniques with large eddy simulation (LES) for predicting species mass fraction and flame characteristics in partially premixed turbulent jet flames. The LES simulations,…
The swirling secondary flow in curved pipes is studied in three-space dimensions using a weakly compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) formulation coupled to new non-reflecting outflow boundary conditions. A large-eddy…
This study presents a comprehensive a priori analysis of tabulated-chemistry models for both laminar and turbulent lean premixed hydrogen flames in strained counterflow configuration. Particular focus is drawn on differential and…
In this work, the thermo-acoustic instabilities of a gas turbine model combustor, the so-called SFB606 combustor, are numerically investigated using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) combined with tabulated chemistry and Artificial Thickened…
Direct Numerical Simulation data obtained earlier from two statistically 1D, planar, fully-developed, weakly turbulent, single-step-chemistry, premixed flames characterized by two significantly different (7.53 and 2.50) density ratios…
The problem of an accurate Eulerian-Lagrangian modeling of inertial particle dispersion in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent wall-bounded flows is addressed. We run Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for turbulent channel flow at…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a useful tool for prediction of turbulence in aerodynamic and biomedical applications. The choice of appropriate turbulence models is key to reaching accurate predictions. The present investigation…
This study is concerned with the simulation of a complex fluid flow problem involving flow past a wedge mounted on a wall for channel Reynolds numbers $Re_c=1560$, $6621$ and $6873$ in uniform and accelerated flow medium. The transient…
Laminar premixed flame profiles of methane/air free flames and strained flames at different fuel/air ratios and strain rates are analysed using detailed chemistry with Lewis numbers equal to one. It is shown that the detailed chemistry…
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…
Wakes of aircraft and automobiles with relatively flat slanted aftbodies are often characterized by a streamwise-oriented vortex pair, whose strength affects drag and other crucial performance parameters. We examine the stability…