Numerical Modeling of Chemical Kinetics, Spray Dynamics, and Turbulent Combustion towards Sustainable Aviation

A Åkerblom, M Passad, A Ercole, N Zettervall… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
With growing interest in sustainable civil supersonic and hypersonic aviation, there is a need
to model the combustion of alternative, sustainable jet fuels. This work presents numerical …

[HTML][HTML] Large eddy simulations of turbulent premixed bluff body flames operated with ethanol, n-heptane, and jet fuels

A Åkerblom, C Fureby - Combustion and Flame, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are carried out targeting an unconfined premixed
bluff body burner operated with ethanol, n-heptane, Jet A, and a Sustainable Aviation Fuel …

Symbolic construction of the chemical Jacobian of quasi-steady state (QSS) chemistries for Exascale computing platforms

M Hassanaly, NT Wimer, A Felden, L Esclapez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Quasi-Steady State Approximation (QSSA) can be an effective tool for reducing the size
and stiffness of chemical mechanisms for implementation in computational reacting flow …

Multidimensional Chemistry Coordinate Mapping for Large Eddy Simulations of a Turbulent Premixed Bluff-Body Burner

P Vauquelin, Y Zhou, A Åkerblom, C Fureby… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
In numerical combustion research, accurate chemical reaction mechanisms for heavy
hydrocarbons are essential to investigate the flame dynamics of Sustainable Aviation Fuels …

Comparing Chemical Reaction Mechanisms for Jet Fuel Combustion in Simulations of a Turbulent Premixed Bluff-Body Burner

A Åkerblom, N Zettervall, C Fureby - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Alternative jet fuels can be radically different from conventional fuels in composition, and the
consequences of these differences are a subject of ongoing research. Numerical …