The present study is concerned with measuring and simulating soot formation and combustion in turbulent liquid fuel spray flames. Soot concentrations inside the combustor are measured by filter paper technique. The simulation is based on the solution of the fully-coupled conservation equations for turbulent flow, chemical species kinetic modeling, fuel droplet evaporation and combustion and...

Flame ignition or extinction is the result of very complex interactions between combustion chemistry and turbulence. It has been recently observed in experimental studies [1,2] that the presence of a plasma discharge in the vicinity of reaction zones affects combustion. For instance, a discharge generated in a combustion chamber produces a pool of radicals. These highly reactive species strongl...

Pollutant emissions from combustion systems are a major area of concern with today’s energy needs. Numerical simulations have helped with the design of clean and efficient combustion strategies over the years. However, with the emergence of new fuels and combustion modes, it is necessary to improve the computational models. In this research, improved NOx and soot models are developed which uses...

Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling of full-scale catalytic converters with realistic chemistry has remained elusive primarily due to the extreme computational requirements. In this work, a new low-memory coupled implicit solver, based on the conservative unstructured finite-volume method, was utilized to simulate laboratory-scale catalytic converters with implicit coupling between fluid...

Hypersonic flight over Mach 5 should be achieved with Supersonic Combustion Ramjet. The regenerative cooling presents the advantage to use the fuel as a coolant, which results in its pyrolysis. Both cooling channel and combustion chamber are studied numerically by coupling the transient phenomena with detailed pyrolysis and combustion chemistry (360 species and 2777 reactions). A Mach 6 flight ...

Since the time of Faraday, several researchers have studied the effects of magnetic fields on flames. In his time, Faraday realized that the application of certain magnetic field configurations to a burning candle resulted an equatorial elongation of the combustion zone [1]. Recent researchers have confirmed what Faraday observed over a century earlier by showing that flames bent to escape magn...

Introduction The present day oil crisis and need for more fuel economy has driven the demand for diesel powered automobiles. Diesel soot is one of the primary emissions of diesel combustion and accurate modeling of soot formation is a challenging area for combustion researchers. The soot formation in diesel engine combustion has been previously modeled using a twostep phenomenological model whi...

Several software systems have been developed recently for the automated generation of combustion reactions kinetic mechanisms using different representations of species and reactions and different generation algorithms. In parallel, several software systems based on rewriting have been developed for the easy modeling and prototyping of systems using rules controlled by strategies. This paper pr...

There are many assumptions that have been considered when describing black liquor droplet combustion. These include assuming an isothermal particle, a constant diameter particle, inert inorganic species, and one-film diffusion model. This paper shows the effects of systematically relaxing these factors for a 1-D spherical model for black liquor combustion. The flame is described using boundary ...