The dynamic behavior of freely propagating premixed flames with large Lewis numbers was computationally simulated using a sixth-order central difference scheme and non-reflective boundary conditions. Results in the linear stage of the instability growth show that the growth rate dramatically decreases with increasing Lewis number and that the large activation energy excites the pulsating instab...

In the present paper, a numerical method has been demonstrated which works on an overall NewtonRaphson type algorithm and is capable of solving the “inverse” problem for turbulent, fullydeveloped, pulsating pipe flows, where the mass flow rate, rather than the pressure gradient is prescribed as a periodic function of time. The momentum equation, governing the transient, fullydeveloped pulsating...

Direct and large-eddy simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations are used to study the pulsating flow in a channel. The cases examined span a wide range of frequencies of the driving pressure gradient, and encompass different physical behaviors, from the quasi-Stokes flow observed at high frequencies, to a quasisteady behavior at the lowest ones. The validity of the dynamic Smagorinsky model to...