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The present work focuses on the large eddy simulation (LES) and the study of turbulent dilute methanol spray flames in vitiated coflow using the secondary oxidizer Flamelet Generated Model (FGM). The modified FGM model uses an additional…
Reported in the paper are results of unsteady three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of laminar and turbulent, lean hydrogen-air, complex-chemistry flames propagating in forced turbulence in a box. To explore the eventual influence…
A Thickened Flame (TF) modeling approach is combined with a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) methodology to model premixed combustion and the accuracy of these model predictions is evaluated by comparing with the piloted premixed stoichiometric…
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,…
This study investigates the effect of increasing strain rate on thermodiffusively unstable, lean premixed hydrogen flames in a 2D counterflow configuration through detailed-chemistry numerical simulations for the first time. The analysis of…
The article investigates liquid oxygen (LOx)-methane supercritical combustion dynamics in a multi-element rocket scale combustor using large eddy simulation (LES). A complex framework of real gas thermodynamics and flamelet generated…
Here we perform the first analysis of high-fidelity simulations of the propagation of lean hydrogen flames through porous media, taking cylindrical arrays a representative example geometry. In this fundamental study we discuss the impact of…
Implementing multicomponent diffusion models in numerical combustion studies is computationally expensive; to reduce cost, numerical simulations commonly use mixture-averaged diffusion treatments or simpler models. However, the accuracy and…
In the present study, soot formation in the turbulent lifted diffusion flame, consisting of ethylene-air is numerically investigated using three different soot modeling approaches and is comprehensively reported. For turbulence-chemistry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lean premixed hydrogen-air flames are strongly affected by thermodiffusive (TD) instabilities, which can alter the flame structure and enhance the local reactivity many-fold. Two recent models (Howarth et al. (Combust.~Flame 253, 2023) and…
This study introduces a novel experimental configuration using OH-PLIF imaging to directly determine the stretch factor ($I_0$) in laminar premixed hydrogen flames transitioning from a quasi-stable to a thermodiffusively unstable regime. A…
We investigate and model pressure effects on the turbulent burning velocity over a wide range of pressures and turbulence intensities with the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of statistically planar turbulent premixed flames for lean…
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…
Fully compressible numerical simulations of two-dimensional laminar lean hydrogen-air premixed flames have been performed, with the flame front subjected to acoustic forcing through the specification of a monopole-type sound source at 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…
Models for finite-rate-chemistry in underresolved flows still pose one of the main challenges for predictive simulations of complex configurations. The problem gets even more challenging if turbulence is involved. This work advances the…