A new facility has been built at the University of Michigan to study shear coaxial combusting gas-gas injection in a rocket combustion chamber. This facility, capable of chamber pressures of 10 atmospheres, is used to obtain a better understanding of the complex fluid dynamics and combustion processes found in rocket combustion chambers and to provide data to assess NASA’s computational fluid d...

The purpose of this work is to highlight the importance of taking into account the two-way interaction between flame and acoustics in the prediction of combustion noise generated by enclosed turbulent flames. It is argued that in general the power spectral density (PSD) of noise inside a combustion chamber can be determined accurately only if the influence of acoustics on the flame is considere...

In an opposed-jet diffusion flame experiment, under certain conditions, after the extinction of the diffusion flame, an edge flame can be obtained. This ring-shaped edge flame was first reported in 1959 by Potter and Butler but received little attention. It was reported again recently in a numerical and an experimental work and is responsible for an interesting transition between two distinct b...

We consider the competition of the different physical processes that can affect the evolution of a flame bubble in a Type Ia supernovae — burning, turbulence and buoyancy. Even in the vigorously turbulent conditions of a convecting white dwarf, thermonuclear burning that begins at a point near the center (within 100 km) of the star is dominated by the spherical laminar expansion of the flame, u...

The explosion of a Type Ia supernova (SNIa) begins as a turbulent flame deep within a 1.4 solar-mass white dwarf. Initially the burning happens in the flamelet regime where turbulence only serves to wrinkle and fold an essentially laminar burning front. However, as the star expands and the flame moves outwards, it encounters regions of lower density. At ∼ 2 × 10g cm, the flame transitions to a ...

Numerical procedures to describe the dispersion, evaporation and combustion of a polydisperse liquid fuel in a turbulent oxidizer are presented. Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) allows one to describe accurately the evolution of the fully compressible gas-phase coupled with a Lagrangian description in order to describe two-phase flows. Standard coupling is used for the Eulerian/Lagrangian syst...

Computational science is paramount to the understanding of underlying processes in internal combustion engines of the future that will utilize non-petroleum-based alternative fuels, including carbon-neutral biofuels, and burn in new combustion regimes that will attain high efficiency while minimizing emissions of particulates and nitrogen oxides. Next-generation engines will likely operate at h...

The complex interactions existing between turbulence and mixing in a bluffbody stabilised flame configuration is investigated by means of a wavelet crosscorrelation analysis on Large Eddy Simulations. The combined approach allows to better point out typical features of unsteady turbulent flows with mixing through the characterisation of the processes involved both in time and scales. The wavele...

The interaction of a vortex pair with a premixed flame serves as an important prototype for premixed turbulent combustion. In this study, we investigate the interaction of a counterrotating vortex pair with an initially flat premixed methane flame. We focus on characterizing the mechanical nature of the flame-vortex interaction and on the features of the interaction strongly affected by fuel eq...