The suitability of different swirl number definitions for describing swirl flows: Accurate, common and (over-) simplified formulations

G Vignat, D Durox, S Candel - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Swirling flows are of considerable practical importance. They are used for example to
increase heat transfer in pipes or to stabilize flames at a distance from the injector unit by …

An implicit splitting scheme with characteristic boundary conditions for compressible reactive flows on unstructured grids

M Pries, A Fiolitakis, P Gerlinger - Journal of Computational and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
The computation of combustion instabilities requires efficient numerical solvers. For low
Mach number compressible flows splitting schemes provide an adequate family of solution …

Assessing accuracy, reliability, and efficiency of combustion models for prediction of flame dynamics with large eddy simulation

J Kuhlmann, A Lampmann, M Pfitzner, W Polifke - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A variety of combustion models for large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent flames have
been developed and validated over the years. Validation studies concentrate on relevant …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of various geometric parameters on the computed swirl numbers and flow topology in a bidirectional vortex chamber

G Sharma, J Majdalani - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A finite-volume solver is used to compute the cyclonic motion in a vortex chamber assuming
steady, incompressible, and inviscid flow conditions. A parametric campaign enables us to …

Period-2 thermoacoustics in a swirl-stabilised partially premixed flame computed using large eddy simulation

AD Kumar, JC Massey, M Stöhr, W Meier… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2023 - Springer
A partially premixed swirl-stabilised flame under thermoacoustically unstable conditions is
studied using large eddy simulation with an unstrained flamelet model for the filtered …

An advanced vortex-tube technology for pure ammonia combustion with clean and steady peculiarity

S Ren, F Li, WP Jones, X Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The present study investigates the combustion performance of pure ammonia in a stratified
vortex-tube reactive flow (SVRF) concerning stability limits, flame topology, pressure …

Experimental investigation on effects of injection distribution on combustion instability in a model rocket combustor

K Guo, L Ni, Y Ren, W Lin, Y Tong, W Nie - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Self-excited combustion instabilities of transverse modes were experimentally investigated
in a rectangular multi-injector model combustor, operating with the bipropellants O 2/CH 4 …

[HTML][HTML] On the incorporation of conservation laws in machine learning tabulation of kinetics for reacting flow simulation

T Readshaw, WP Jones, S Rigopoulos - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Tabulation of chemical mechanisms with artificial neural networks (ANNs) offers significant
speed benefits when computing the real-time integration of reaction source terms in …

Compressible Large Eddy Simulation of Thermoacoustic Instabilities in the PRECCINSTA Combustor Using Flamelet Generated Manifolds With Dynamic Thickened …

S Gövert, JT Lipkowicz, B Janus - … of Engineering for …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The fully compressible, density-based CFD-solver TRACE has been extended for
simulations of turbulent reacting flows in aero engine gas turbine combustors. The flamelet …

Thermoacoustic instabilities with varying geometries of the main-stage exit in a centrally staged burner

M Han, X Han, X Wang, L Li - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The present study investigates the effect of the exit geometry of the main stage on
thermoacoustic instabilities in a model combustor with a dual-swirl layout. In practical …