A key outstanding issue with turbulent premixed flames lies in modeling the burning rate which may be related to the flame surface density if the laminar flamelet assumption applies. Although it is generally accepted that, in the flamelet regimes, higher turbulence levels increases flame wrinkling and hence its surface density, recent imaging experiments are not consistent making this a controv...

Numerical investigations have been conducted on the effect of the internal geometry of a local contraction on the spontaneous ignition of pressurized hydrogen release through a length of tube using a 5-order WENO scheme. A mixture-averaged multi-component approach was used for accurate calculation of molecular transport. The auto-ignition and combustion chemistry were accounted for using a 21-s...

Turbulent multi-phase combustion is encountered in a number of engineering applications, such as internal combustion engines and gas-turbine aircraft engines. Therefore, the ability to perform accurate numerical simulations of these systems is of paramount importance to improve their design and efficiency. However, the underlying physics of spray combustion are extremely complicated. The liquid...

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...

A simpl i fied method is presented for calculati ng mean major species concentrations (02' CO2, CO) in turbulent fires for any fuel given the species distribution of the same fuel in a laminar diffusion flame. This method, verified by extensive measurements, uses a probability d Iat r t bution function (Pdf) for the conserved scalar in turbulent fires together wi th a uniform mi xedness paramet...

In the field of fluid engineering, controlling turbulent flows remains a crucial problem. This paper presents a basis of numerical methods and turbulence models for the large Eddy simulation. Simulation results include the unsteady analyses of complex flows, such as the vortex dynamics of turbulent jets subject to inlet perturbations and the reacting flow with flame propagation in a gas–turbine...

In order to solve the simulation problem of steady compressible turbulent combustion, a small scale high performance parallel cluster system was designed. It based on the open source CFD platform OpenFOAM, and was used to to simulate the bluff-body stabilized Sydney flame hm1 which refers to the detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms of coal gas and air combustion reaction. The flow of combustion...