Numerical simulations of laminar premixed flames burning hydrogen and methane in spontaneous ignition mode are performed by harmonically exciting the reactants’ temperature at the domain inlet. The results are compared to an analytical model representing the same reactive flow configuration. The mod...

We perform a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of 14081 “cold” spherical droplets evaporating in a “hot” fully-developed turbulent channel flow. This effort is the first extensive computation that employs four-way coupling of the droplet motion with the turbulent carrier phase and interface-resolved...

A three-dimensional direct numerical simulation (DNS) is performed for a turbulent hydrogen-air flame, represented with detailed chemistry, stabilized in a model gas-turbine combustor. The combustor geometry consists of a mixing duct followed by a sudden expansion and a combustion chamber, which rep...

In thermal systems for transportation and power generation turbulence and combustion are ubiquitous and very often inextricably coupled processes, down to the smallest scales of continuum mechanics in non-linear fashion. Conventional approaches to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), traditionally ba...

Chemical‐kinetic combustion mechanisms for hydrogen‐oxygen‐nitrogen systems, motivated originally by concerns about NOx emissions during hydrogen burning, have recently acquired renewed interest as a result of the possibility of employing ammonia‐hydrogen mixtures in gas turbines and reciprocating e...

A laminar one-dimensional hydrogen-air flame travelling and quenching towards a chemically inert permeable wall (PW) is studied. Hydrogen flows through the wall into the premixed H₂-air. The S3D numerical code with detailed chemistry is used. PW results are compared against results of an impermea...

This paper reports results of experimental and numerical studies of NOx formation in a 30 kWth lab-scale bubbling fluidized bed running in oxy-fuel mode. The numerical model is based on the GRI-mech 3.0 mechanism to compute the kinetics of homogeneous reactions of volatiles and char combustion produ...