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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.…
A new compact active turbulence generator is developed, tested, and characterized, which extends the capabilities of such generators used in turbulent premixed combustion research. The generator is composed of two blades that resemble the…
The influence of the small scale ``cellular'' structure of premixed flames on their evolution at larger scales is investigated. A procedure of the space-time averaging of the flow variables over flame cells is introduced. It is proved that…
Cavities possess self-sustaining oscillations driven by the interaction of hydrodynamic and acoustic characteristics. These oscillations have applications in fuel-air mixing, heat exchangers, and landing gears, but resonance can damage the…
Autocatalytic reaction fronts between reacted and unreacted species may propagate as solitary waves, namely at a constant front velocity and with a stationary concentration profile, resulting from a balance between molecular diffusion and…
We investigate the local self-sustained process underlying spiral turbulence in counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow using a periodic annular domain, shaped as a parallelogram, two of whose sides are aligned with the cylindrical helix…
Understanding the propagation dynamics of premixed flames in confined spaces is important for fire safety in gas pipelines and for optimizing modern internal combustion engines. In sufficiently long channels, premixed flames routinely…
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…
The renormalization ideas of self-similar dynamics of a strongly turbulent flame front are applied to the case of a flame with realistically large thermal expansion of the burning matter. In that case a flame front is corrugated both by…
In the present article, series of opposed flow, downward flame spread experiments are conducted using 80 mm long cast PMMA cylinders of 1 mm and 0.5 mm diameters at normal and micro gravity environments. All the experiments are conducted at…
Our recent development of a novel research burner has made it possible to experimentally investigate truly unstretched and planar diffusion flames. Hence it has become feasible to directly validate theoretical models for thermal-diffusive…
Using a high-sensitivity torsional oscillator technique, we mapped the rotational and relaxational dynamics of solid helium-4 throughout the parameter range of the proposed supersolidity. We found evidence that the same microscopic…
We continue to investigate two-dimensional laterally propagating flames in type I X-ray bursts using fully compressible hydrodynamics simulations. In the current study we relax previous approximations where we artificially boosted the…
The dynamics of quantized vortices in rotating $^3$He-B is investigated in the low density (single-vortex) regime as a function of temperature. An abrupt transition is observed at $0.5 T_{\rm c}$. Above this temperature the number of vortex…
The present study numerically explores the mixed convection phenomena in a differentially heated ventilated square cavity with active flow modulation via a rotating plate. Forced convection flow in the cavity is attained by maintaining an…
The early stages of flames propagation in tubes with no-slip walls and the inversion of the flame front from a convex shape directed towards unburned gas to a concave shape with a cusp directed to the burned gas, known as a tulip flame, was…
We investigate the flow of two immiscible, viscous fluids in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell, when one of the fluids is a ferrofluid and an external magnetic field is applied. The interplay between centrifugal and magnetic forces in determining…
Resolving fluid transport at engine surfaces is required to predict transient heat loss, which is becoming increasingly important for the development of high-efficiency internal combustion engines (ICE). The limited number of available…
A nearly two-dimensionnal foam is generated inside a Hele-Shaw cell half-filled with a surfactant solution. The cell is then placed vertically on a tumbler so that it rotates around its center with the cell angular velocity as the control…
This paper presents a numerical investigation into the phenomenon of flame spread over thin circular ducts in normal gravity and microgravity environments. Flame spread over such geometry is of significant interest due to its relevance in…