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Thermodiffusive instabilities can have a leading order effect on flame propagation for lean premixed hydrogen flames. Many simulation studies have been performed to study this effect, but almost exclusively in two-dimensional (2D) or domain…
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…
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…
Combustion instabilities are a major concern in the design of Liquid Rocket Engines (LREs) and gas turbines. During this PhD work, several directions were explored to understand and mitigate their effects. First, more efficient and robust…
Steady propagation of premixed flames in straight channels is studied numerically using the on-shell approach. A first numerical algorithm for solving the system of nonlinear integro-differential on-shell equations is presented. It is based…
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…
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…
Ultra-lean premixed hydrogen combustion is a possible solution to decarbonize industry, while limiting flame temperatures and thus nitrous oxide emissions. These lean hydrogen/air flames experience strong preferential diffusion effects,…
The multiscale nature of turbulent combustion necessitates accurate and computationally efficient methods for direct numerical simulations (DNS). The field has long been dominated by high-order finite differences, which lack the flexibility…
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 paper presents an experimental study of the influence of heat losses on the onset of thermoacoustic instabilities in methane-air premixed flames propagating in a horizontal tube of small diameter, $D = 10$ mm. Flames are ignited at the…
Ultra-lean hydrogen-air flames propagating in narrow gaps, under the influence of cold walls and high preferential diffusion, can form two distinct isolated structures. They exhibit either circular or double-cell shapes and propagate at…
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…
We investigate the effect of thermal expansion and gravity on the propagation and stability of flames in inhomogeneous mixtures. We focus on laminar flames in the simple configuration of an infinitely long channel with rigid porous walls in…
Understanding the dynamics of premixed flames that propagates in confined systems is important in a wide range of applications. The study of premixed flames propagating in a closed channel covers a variety of complexities related to flame…
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…
Flamelet-based methods are extensively used in modeling turbulent hydrocarbon flames. However, these models have yet to be established for (lean) premixed hydrogen flames. While flamelet models exist for laminar thermo-diffusively unstable…
A hybrid numerical model previously developed for combustion simulations is extended in this article to describe flame propagation and stabilization in porous media. The model, with a special focus on flame/wall interaction processes, is…
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…
This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame…