Large eddy simulation of plasma assisted ignition: Effects of pulse repetition frequency, number of pulses, and pulse energy

TS Taneja, T Ombrello, J Lefkowitz, S Yang - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
The impacts of the pulse repetition frequency (PRF), number of pulses, and energy per pulse
in a train of nanosecond discharge pulses on the ignition of a flowing lean premixed …

1D modeling of plasma streamers at ammonia-air flame conditions

TS Taneja, H Sitaraman, S Yang - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-consistent 1D modeling of streamers in ammonia-oxygen-nitrogen-water mixtures has
been performed in this work. A fluid model that includes species transport, electrostatic …

Effects of spatiotemporal plasma power distribution on the modeling of ignition kernel evolution in quiescent and turbulent methane/air mixtures

PN Johnson, TS Taneja, S Yang - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The present work improves a phenomenological plasma-assisted combustion model by
integrating the spatiotemporal distribution of plasma power density, thereby considering the …

Numerical study of turbulent non-premixed cool flames at high and supercritical pressures: Real gas effects and dual peak structure

S Ramachandran, N Srinivasan, TS Taneja… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
To study the formation of cool flames at high/supercritical pressures, adaptive mesh
refinement (AMR)-based simulations of dimethyl ether (DME)-air pesudo-turbulent reacting …

The improved performance of plasma assisted combustion (PAC) simulations using the fully analytical Jacobian

Y Ban, F Zhang, N Zhang, S Zhong, J Zhu, Y Pei - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
The open-source package ZDPlasKin is integrated into OpenFOAM to develop the ZDP-OF
platform, facilitating simultaneous computations of plasma discharge and chemical reactions …

A computational study of a laminar methane–air flame assisted by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges

X Shao, N Kabbaj, DA Lacoste… - Journal of Physics D …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanosecond repetitively pulsed (NRP) discharges have been considered a promising
technique for enhancing combustion efficiency and control. For successful implementation, it …

An efficient solution of the multi-term multi-harmonic electron Boltzmann equation for use in global models

JE Lynch, TR Sippel, S Subramaniam - Computer Physics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Solving the electron Boltzmann equation is an essential but costly step in simulating low-
temperature plasma kinetics. This work addresses the problem by introducing a solution of …

Numerical Investigation of Ignition Kernel Development with Nanosecond Pulsed Plasma in Quiescent and Flowing Mixtures

TS Taneja, T Ombrello, J Lefkowitz… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0749. vid Nanosecond Pulsed
High Frequency Discharges (NPHFD) are gaining popularity over conventional spark and …

ChemPlasKin: a general-purpose program for unified gas and plasma kinetics simulations

X Shao, DA Lacoste, HG Im - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04224, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work introduces ChemPlasKin, a freely accessible solver optimized for zero-
dimensional (0D) simulations of chemical kinetics of neutral gas in non-equilibrium plasma …

Phenomenological modeling of plasma-assisted methane ignition using plasma energy fraction manifolds

PN Johnson, TS Taneja, Z Sun, S Yang, K Kim… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
The present work advances a phenomenological plasma-assisted combustion model by
implementing spatiotemporally varying plasma energy fractions for fast gas heating …