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A novel approach for modeling the progress variable reaction rate in Large Eddy Simulations of turbulent and reacting flows is proposed. This is done in the context of two popular flamelet models which require the progress variable variance…
We investigate a model of solid propellant combustion involving surface pyrolysis coupled to finite activation energy gas phase combustion. Existence and uniqueness of a travelling wave solution are established by extending dynamical system…
We propose a predictive model of the turbulent burning velocity over a wide range of conditions. The model consists of sub models of the stretch factor and the turbulent flame area. The stretch factor characterizes the flame response of…
Numerical calculations of the effect of organophosphorous inhibitor (CF3CH2O)3P and its mixtures with carbon dioxide on propane flames are carried out using the three dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations in the low…
Dual fuel engines can achieve high efficiencies and low emissions but also can encounter high cylinder-to-cylinder variations on multi-cylinder engines. In order to avoid these variations, they require a more complex method for combustion…
Energy dissipation rate is an important parameter for nearly every experiment on turbulent flow. Mathematically precise relationships between energy dissipation rate and other measurable statistics for the case of anisotropic turbulence are…
Large Eddy Simulations with flamelet-based thermochemistry are used to investigate the behaviour of a premixed hydrogen-air flame stabilised by a bluff-body. Validation against experimental data is carried out first to demonstrate the…
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The nature of carbon burning flames in Type Ia supernovae is explored as they interact with Kolmogorov turbulence. One-dimensional calculations using the Linear Eddy Model of Kerstein (1991) elucidate three regimes of turbulent burning. In…
In multiphase flow phenomena, bubbles and droplets are advected, deformed, break up into smaller ones, and coalesce with each other. A primary challenge of classical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for such flows is to…
This work is devoted to the analysis and resolution of a well-posed mathematical model for several processes involved in the artificial circulation of water in a large waterbody. This novel formulation couples the convective heat transfer…
An unconfined strongly swirled flow is investigated for different Reynolds numbers using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with a Thickened Flame (TF) model. Both reacting and non-reacting flow results are…
Based on Jaffer's (2023) heat engine analysis of natural convection, this investigation mathematically derives a novel, comprehensive formula predicting the natural convective heat transfer from an inclined cylinder given its length,…
The PANS equations model is used to predict the transitional Taylor-Green vortex (TGV) flow at Re=3000. A new form of the closure is proposed, in which the PANS procedure is applied to a variant of the BHR turbulence model. The TGV is a…
In this work, the van der Waals fluid model, a diffuse-interface model for liquid-vapor two-phase flows, is numerically investigated. The thermodynamic properties of the van der Waals fluid are first studied. Dimensional analysis is…
This paper provides an improved flamelet/progress variable (FPV) model for the simulation of turbulent combustion, employing the statistically most likely distribution (SMLD) approach for the joint probability density function (PDF) of the…
A series of Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of lean methane/air flames was conducted in order to investigate the enhancement of the turbulent flame speed and modifications to the reaction layer structure associated with the systematic…
This paper presents a flame-height correlation for laminar to transition-to-turbulent regime diffusion flames. Flame-height measurements are obtained by means of numerical and experimental studies in which three high definition cameras were…
Understanding the combustion chemistry of acetaldehyde is crucial to developing robust and accurate combustion chemistry models for practical fuels, especially for biofuels. This study aims to reevaluate the important rate and thermodynamic…