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Turbulent lean premixed hydrogen jet flames are simulated using direct numerical simulation employing detailed chemistry in both slot and round configurations at various pressures. All cases are simulated at a constant jet Reynolds number…
The stabilization mechanisms of fully premixed NH3/H2/air flames anchored behind a bluff body are investigated using combined experiments and direct numerical simulations. Particular attention is given to the interplay between preferential…
Supersonic lean premixed hydrogen/air combustion stabilised by a cavity-flame holder within a model scramjet, characterized by a Mach 1.5 inflow at 1000 K and 50 kPa, is investigated via direct numerical simulation. By separately…
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…
The mixing process of multiple jets of liquefied petroleum gas and air in a diffusion flame is numerically analysed. The case study considers a four-port array burner where the fuel is injected by four peripheral nozzles and mixed with the…
Combustion of hydrogen can help in reducing carbon-based emissions but it also poses unique challenges related to the high flame speed and Lewis number effects of the hydrogen flame. When operated with conventional burners, a hydrogen flame…
The combined influence of elevated pressure and temperature, representative of gas-turbine operating conditions, on lean premixed hydrogen flames is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of a turbulent jet. Three cases are…
This study presents the first Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of hydrogen combustion in a real-size internal combustion engine, investigating the complex dynamics of ignition, flame propagation, and flame-wall interaction under…
Hydrogen combustion systems operated under fuel-lean conditions offer great potential for low emissions. However, these operating conditions are also susceptible to intrinsic thermodiffusive combustion instabilities. Even though technical…
We study the dynamics and properties of a turbulent flame, formed in the presence of subsonic, high-speed, homogeneous, isotropic Kolmogorov-type turbulence in an unconfined system. Direct numerical simulations are performed with…
This numerical study investigates the combustion modes in the second stage of a sequential combustor at atmospheric and high pressure. The sequential burner (SB) features a mixing section with fuel injection into a hot vitiated crossflow.…
The present paper reports on the numerical investigation of lifted turbulent jet flames with H2/N2 fuel issuing into a vitiated coflow of lean combustion products of H2/air using conditional moment closure method (CMC). A 2D axisymmetric…
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…
Three-dimensional numerical simulations of canonical statistically-steady statistically-planar turbulent flames have been used in an attempt to produce distributed burning in lean methane and hydrogen flames. Dilatation across the flame…
Premixed flames propagating within small channels show complex combustion phenomena that differ from flame propagation at conventional scales. Available experimental and numerical studies have documented stationary/non-stationary and/or…
Diffusive transport of mass occurs at small scales in turbulent premixed flames. As a result, multicomponent mass diffusion, which is often neglected in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of premixed combustion, has the potential to impact…
Reactive flows in confined spaces involve complex flame-wall interaction (FWI). This work aims to gain more insights into the physics of the premixed near-wall flame and the wall heat flux as an important engineering relevant quantity. Two…
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…
Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a planar turbulent lean hydrogen-air jet flame at Re = 11000 are performed using a tabulated flamelet model based on mixture-averaged diffusion that incorporates detailed transport, including differential and…
A high-order scheme for direct numerical simulations of turbulent combustion is discussed. Its implementation in the massively parallel and publicly available Pencil Code is validated with the focus on hydrogen combustion. Ignition delay…