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Accurate and affordable simulation of supercritical reacting flow is of practical importance for developing advanced engine systems for liquid rockets, heavy-duty powertrains, and next-generation gas turbines. In this work, we present…
The impact of thermodiffusive effects on combustion noise in turbulent premixed slot jet flames is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations. Two thermodiffusively unstable lean hydrogen-air flames are compared with a…
We present fully kinetic two-dimensional, three-velocity-component (2D3V) PIConGPU simulations of a three-beam direct-drive interaction with a 15 $\mu$m solid-density cryogenic hydrogen cylinder, establishing a predictive numerical baseline…
High-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has become a workable tool for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence. In this paper, to accelerate the computation, HGKS is implemented with the graphical processing unit (GPU) using the…
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows is computationally expensive and cannot be applied to flows with large Reynolds numbers. Large eddy simulation (LES) is an alternative that is computationally less demanding, but is…
We study the numerical errors of large-eddy simulation (LES) in isotropic and wall-bounded turbulence. A direct-numerical-simulation (DNS)-aided LES formulation, where the subgrid-scale (SGS) term of the LES is computed by using filtered…
Gibson scaling and related properties of flame-surface geometry in turbulent premixed combustion are demonstrated using a novel computational model, Deterministic Turbulent Mixing (DTM). In DTM, turbulent advection is represented by a…
A numerical model is built, simulating the principles of kinetic gas theory, to predict pressures of molecules in a spherical pressure vessel; the model tracks a single particle and multiplies the force on the spherical walls by a mole of…
We present direct numerical simulations demonstrating deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) driven by oxygen flames in Type Ia supernova progenitors. Using the Castro hydrodynamics code coupled with the ``aprox13'' 13-isotope nuclear…
A new approach to turbulence simulation, based on a combination of large-eddy simulation (LES) for the whole flow and an array of non-space-filling quasi-direct numerical simulations (QDNS), which sample the response of near-wall turbulence…
Many practical combustion systems such as those in rockets, gas turbines, and internal combustion engines operate under high pressures that surpass the thermodynamic critical limit of fuel-oxidizer mixtures. These conditions require the…
We report on recent progress in the physical and numerical modeling of compressible two-phase flows that involve phase transition between the liquid and gaseous state of the fluid. The high-speed dynamics of cavitation bubbles is studied in…
In this paper we present results of direct numerical simulations of lean hydrogen/air flames freely propagating in a planar narrow channel with varying flow rate, using detailed chemistry and transport and including heat losses through the…
The objective of the present study is to provide a numerical database of thermal boundary layers and to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics of passive scalars at different Prandtl numbers. In this regard, a direct numerical…
Compressible interfacial multiphase flows (CIMF) are essential to different applications, such as liquid fuel injection in supersonic propulsion systems. Since high-level details in CIMF are often difficult to measure in experiments,…
This study investigates the characteristics of nitrogen oxide (NO) formation in two-dimensional (2D) laminar premixed ammonia/hydrogen/air flames and the impact of thermodiffusively driven intrinsic flame instabilities (IFIs). To this end,…
Hypersonic flight poses unique propulsion challenges, requiring engines that maintain thrust, efficiency, and stability across a wide range of operating conditions. These engines must transition smoothly between flight regimes and…
The design of advanced nuclear reactors (Gen IV) involves an array of challenging fluid-flow issues that affect safety and performance. Currently, these problems are addressed in an ad-hoc manner at varying scales which are time-consuming…
This work presents a new approach for premixed turbulent combustion modeling based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). We first propose a framework to reformulate the problem of subgrid flame surface density estimation as a machine…
In this paper, a novel mean-value exergy-based modeling framework for internal combustion engines is developed. The characterization of combustion irreversibilities, thermal exchange between the in-cylinder mixture and the cylinder wall,…