Expanding interest in enhanced subsurface natural resource recovery and carbon sequestration motivates study of reacting flows in porous media. In this work, we examine the case of reaction products that increase or decrease the viscosity of the fluid. Parallel reactant streams flow through porous media and react transversely along the centerline. We utilize a pore scale, finite element numeric...

Atmospheric water vapour is an essential ingredient of weather and climate. The key features of its distribution can be represented by kinematic models which treat it as a passive scalar advected by a prescribed flow and reacting through condensation. Condensation acts as a sink that maintains specific humidity below a prescribed, space-dependent saturation value. To investigate how the interpl...

Reacting flow fields are often subject to unsteadiness due flow, reaction, diffusion, and acoustics. Further, flames can also exhibit inherent caused by various intrinsic instabilities. Interaction between unsteady processes across multiple scales makes combustion dynamics complex. Characterizing such complex is essential ensure the safe reliable operation of high efficiency systems. Tools from...

This paper presents results from investigations of chemically reacting flowfields and optical gain profiles in HF chemical laser media by infrared hyperspectral imaging. Subsonic and supersonic chemiluminescent F+H2 reacting flowfields, produced in high-fluence microwave-driven reactors, were imaged at a series of wavelengths, 2.6-3.1 microm, by a low-order, spectrally scanning Fabry-Perot inte...

A particle method applying the probability density function ~PDF! approach to turbulent compressible reacting flows is presented. The method is applied to low and high Mach number reacting plane mixing layers. Good agreement is obtained between the model calculations and the available experimental data. The PDF equation is solved using a Lagrangian Monte Carlo method. To represent the effects o...