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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…
Our recent development of a novel research burner has made it possible to experimentally investigate truly unstretched and planar diffusion flames. Hence it has become feasible to directly validate theoretical models for thermal-diffusive…
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…
The scaling of turbulent premixed flames is typically described by correlations derived for unity-Lewis-number fuels. However, their validity for hydrogen (H$_{2}$) remains uncertain due to the thermodiffusive effects associated with its…
Inter-scale kinetic energy transfer in turbulent flows is accompanied by very intense and intermittent spatial-temporal fluctuations. Such intermittency is expected to be particularly prominent in premixed flames, where heat release,…
The influence of the small scale ``cellular'' structure of premixed flames on their evolution at larger scales is investigated. A procedure of the space-time averaging of the flow variables over flame cells is introduced. It is proved that…
We first briefly recall the basic mechanisms controlling the hydrodynamic and thermo-diffusive stability of planar laminar premixed flames, and give the state of the theoretical analysis. We then describe some novel experiments to observe…
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…
Flame propagation through a non-volatile solid-fuel suspension is studied using a simplified, time-dependent numerical model that considers the influence of both diffusional and kinetic rates on the particle combustion process. It is…
The problem of premixed flame propagation in wide horizontal tubes is revisited. Employing the on-shell description of flames with arbitrary gas expansion, a nonlinear second-order differential equation for the front position of steady…
High-fidelity experimental characterization of turbulent premixed flames remains limited by the cost and complexity of advanced diagnostics, particularly under elevated pressures and intense turbulence where measurements of coupled flame…
Understanding the propagation dynamics of premixed flames in confined spaces is important for fire safety in gas pipelines and for optimizing modern internal combustion engines. In sufficiently long channels, premixed flames routinely…
Understanding how intrinsically fast hydrogen-air premixed flames can be rendered much faster in turbulence is crucial for systematically developing hydrogen-based gas turbines and spark ignition engines. Here, we present fundamental…
A joint experimental and numerical investigation of turbulent flame front anchoring at externally heated walls is presented. The phenomenon is examined for lean hydrogen/air mixtures in a novel burner design, which comprises a cylindrical…
The morphology of flame fronts propagating in reactive systems comprised of randomly positioned, point-like sources is studied. The solution of the temperature field and the initiation of new sources is implemented using the superposition…
In the present work, the discrete flame model [1] is augmented by introducing the thermal inertia of particles in the preheating zone. The effect of particle thermal inertia on flame speed, propagation limits, and near-limits dynamics of…
We address two models for the simulation of dust clouds premixed combustion: the first one consists in usual balance equations, to derive the second one, we suppose that the solution takes the form of a travelling combustion wave and track…
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…
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…
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…