The past and future of the Monte Carlo method in thermal radiation transfer

JR Howell, KJ Daun - Journal of Heat Transfer, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Since its initial development as a specialty technique for modeling neutron transport in fissile
materials almost 80 years ago, the Monte Carlo method has since been deployed in almost …

Review of Lagrangian stochastic models for turbulent combustion

T Yang, Y Yin, H Zhou, Z Ren - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2021 - Springer
Predictive simulation of the combustion process in engine is crucial to understand the
complex underlying physicochemical processes, improve engine performance, and reduce …

Assessment of randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo method efficiency in radiative heat transfer simulations

L Palluotto, N Dumont, P Rodrigues, O Gicquel… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiation can play a central role in turbulent reactive flows where heat transfer is enhanced
in applications with high temperature and pressure. The Monte Carlo method is a successful …

Transported PDF modeling of pulverized coal jet flames

XY Zhao, DC Haworth - Combustion and Flame, 2014 - Elsevier
A transported composition probability density function (PDF) method is developed for
pulverized coal combustion. A consistent hybrid Lagrangian particle/Eulerian mesh …

Detailed modeling of a small-scale turbulent pool fire

B Wu, SP Roy, X Zhao - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Turbulent pool fires have been studied as a canonical configuration in fire science with wide
interest. A numerical study of a small-scale turbulent heptane pool fire is conducted in the …

Influence of turbulent fluctuations on radiation heat transfer, NO and soot formation under ECN Spray A conditions

M Bolla, MA Chishty, ER Hawkes, QN Chan… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the influence of unresolved turbulent fluctuations on radiation heat
transfer and formation of NO and soot in an n-dodecane spray flame (known as Spray A) …

Modern developments in filtered density function

S Sammak, Z Ren, P Givi - Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Mixing …, 2020 - Springer
An overview is presented of recent developments in filtered density function (FDF)
methodology as utilized for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows. The review is …

A discrete integral transform for rapid spectral synthesis

DCM van den Bekerom, E Pannier - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate synthetic spectra that rely on large Line-By-Line (LBL)-databases are used in a
wide range of applications such as high temperature combustion, atmospheric re-entry …

Effect of molecular transport on PDF modeling of turbulent non-premixed flames

H Wang, K Kim - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015 - Elsevier
Comprehensive studies are performed to evaluate the effect of molecular transport on the
probability density function (PDF) modeling of turbulent non-premixed flames. The widely …

Line-by-line random-number database for monte carlo simulations of radiation in combustion system

T Ren, MF Modest - Journal of Heat Transfer, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
With today's computational capabilities, it has become possible to conduct line-by-line (LBL)
accurate radiative heat transfer calculations in spectrally highly nongray combustion …