The present project was conducted with the circumferential-fuel-jets inverse diffusion flame (CIDF) burner burning liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) enriched with 50% of hydrogen fuel (H2). The range of stable operation of the CIDF burner in terms of Reynolds number (from laminar to turbulent flow regions), equivalence ratio and fuel jet velocity of LPG of the 50% H2-LPG mixed fuel was identified. ...

A non-premixed coaxial oxy-fuel turbulent flame was studied numerically with standard and realizable k-ε turbulence model and a comparison was made between them. The governing equations were solved by finite volume approach and were discretized using the second order upwind scheme. The presumed β-PDF model was applied to model turbulence-combustion interaction. The discrete ordinate radiation h...

In order to address the impact of concentration gradients on chemistry – turbulence interaction in turbulent flames, REDIM reduced is constructed incorporating scalar dissipation rate, which a key quantity describing mixing process. This achieved by providing variable gradient estimate evolution equation. such case, tabulated as function coordinates and rate an additional progress variable. The...

An improved spark ignition model has been developed and implemented into the KIVA-3V code. In this model, the spark ignition kernel growth is tracked by Lagrangian particle markers. The effects of turbulent flow and spark discharge energy on the kernel growth are considered. After the ignition kernel size exceeds a critical size related to the integral turbulent length scale of the flow, the tu...

High-speed planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) and 3-D large eddy simulations (LES) are used to study turbulent flame kernel growth, wrinkling and the formation of separated flame pockets in methane/air mixtures. Turbulence was effected by a set of rotary fans situated in a cylindrical enclosure. Flame wrinkling was followed on sequential 2-D OH images captured at kHz repetition rates. Und...

We present a numerical model which allows us to investigate thermonuclear flames in Type Ia supernova explosions. The model is based on a finite-volume explicit hydrodynamics solver employing PPM. Using the level-set technique combined with in-cell reconstruction and flux-splitting schemes we are able to describe the flame in the discontinuity approximation. We apply our implementation to flame...

We describe a novel pump-probe optical method, based on a Sagnac (anti-resonant ring) interferometer, which removes over 99% of the DC background light inherent in normal, two beam pump-probe measurements. Suppression of the DC component is critical for pumpprobe imaging applications. In addition, this method greatly increases the signal-to-noise ratio compared with normal, two beam pump-probe ...

The main objective of the present study is to demonstrate accurate low frequency transient turbulent combustion modeling. For accurate flame dynamics some improvements were made to the standard TFC combustion model for lean premixed combustion. With use of a 1D laminar flamelet code, predictions have been made for the laminar flame speed and the critical strain rate to improve the TFC (Turbulen...

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