Direct numerical simulations of turbulent reacting flows with shock waves and stiff chemistry using many-core/GPU acceleration

S Desai, YJ Kim, W Song, MB Luong, FEH Pérez… - Computers & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Compressible reacting flows may display sharp spatial variation related to shocks, contact
discontinuities or reactive zones embedded within relatively smooth regions. The presence …

A statistical analysis of developing knock intensity in a mixture with temperature inhomogeneities

MB Luong, S Desai, FEH Pérez, R Sankaran… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
Knock formation and its intensity for a stoichiometric ethanol/air mixture under a
representative end-gas auto-ignition condition in IC engines with temperature …

Prediction of ignition modes of NTC-fuel/air mixtures with temperature and concentration fluctuations

MB Luong, FEH Pérez, HG Im - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
The ignition regime criteria proposed by Im et al.(2015) are extended to account for
temperature and concentration fluctuations. The newly-developed criteria are applied to …

Effects of turbulence and temperature fluctuations on knock development in an ethanol/air mixture

MB Luong, S Desai, FE Hernández Pérez… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2021 - Springer
The effects of turbulence on knock development and intensity for a thermally
inhomogeneous stoichiometric ethanol/air mixture at a representative end-gas autoignition …

Effects of mixing assumptions and models for LES of Hydrogen-fueled Rotating Detonation Engines

P Strempfl, O Dounia, D Laera, T Poinsot - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are a powerful tool to analyze the flow in Rotating
Detonation Engines, but their implementation is not straightforward. Many groups use …

Detonation development in hydrogen/air mixtures inside a closed chamber: role of a cold wall

H Li, Z Chen - Proceedings of the combustion institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Detonation development from a hot spot has been extensively studied, where ignition occurs
earlier than that in the surrounding mixtures. It has also been reported that a cool spot can …

Autoignition and detonation development from a hot spot inside a closed chamber: Effects of end wall reflection

P Dai, Z Chen, X Gan, MA Liberman - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advancement of highly boosted internal combustion engines (ICEs) with high thermal
efficiency is mainly constrained by knock and super-knock, respectively, due to the end gas …

Effects of non-thermal termolecular reactions on detonation development in hydrogen (H2)/methane (CH4)-air mixtures

S Desai, Y Tao, R Sivaramakrishnan, Y Wu, T Lu… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The binary fuel blend of H 2/CH 4 is one of the most promising hydrogen-enriched
hydrocarbon fuels in spark-ignition (SI) engines. Yet, the undesirable phenomenon of super …

Direct numerical simulation of preignition and knock in engine conditions

MB Luong, HG Im - Advances in Energy and Combustion: Safety and …, 2022 - Springer
Theoretical framework and high-fidelity direct numerical simulations (DNS) on preignition
and knock encountered in internal combustion (IC) engines are briefly reviewed in this …

Auto-ignitive deflagration speed of methane (CH4) blended dimethyl-ether (DME)/air mixtures at stratified conditions

S Desai, R Sankaran, HG Im - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Front propagation speeds from fully resolved unsteady one dimensional simulations with
dimethyl-ether (DME)/methane (CH 4)/air mixtures under engine relevant conditions are …