[HTML][HTML] Electrical power, energy efficiency, NO and CO emissions investigations of an ammonia/methane-fueled micro-thermal photovoltaic system with a reduced …

H Zhao, D Zhao, D Sun, B Semlitsch - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Ammonia is an alternative renewable green fuel with significant potential for addressing
climate change concerns. Blending ammonia with methane has emerged as a viable …

[HTML][HTML] Entropy generation and improved thermal performance investigation on a hydrogen-fuelled double-channel microcombustor with Y-shaped internal fins

H Zhao, D Zhao, S Becker, H Rong, X Zhao - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
To enhance the hydrogen-fueled micro-combustor's thermal performance for Thermo-
photovoltaic applications, we propose and test a double-channel design featuring Y-shaped …

Heat transfer and entropy production evaluation on premixed hydrogen/air-fuelled micro-combustors with internal threads

S Ni, D Zhao, X Zhu - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
A micro-combustor with a tailored internal thread is proposed to uniform the wall
temperature and improve the second law efficiency of a micro thermophotovoltaic (MTPV) …

Modelling the response of a turbulent jet flame to acoustic forcing in a linearized framework using an active flame approach

TL Kaiser, G Varillon, W Polifke, F Zhang, T Zirwes… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study performs a linear mean field analysis of a turbulent reacting methane-air jet flame,
with the goal of predicting the response of the reacting flow to upstream acoustic actuation …

Linear instability of a premixed slot flame: flame transfer function and resolvent analysis

C Wang, TL Kaiser, M Meindl, K Oberleithner… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The response to forcing of a 2D laminar premixed slot flame is investigated by means of
linear analysis, based on the compressible flow equations with a two-step reaction scheme …

[HTML][HTML] Computation and prediction of intrinsic thermoacoustic oscillations associated with autoignition fronts

HS Gopalakrishnan, A Gruber, JP Moeck - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
A sequential combustor architecture consists of two longitudinally staged combustion zones
featuring a propagation-stabilized flame in the first stage and an autoignition-stabilized …

Global linear stability analysis of a flame anchored to a cylinder

C Wang, L Lesshafft, K Oberleithner - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the linear stability of a laminar premixed flame, anchored on a
square cylinder and confined inside a channel. Many modern linear analysis concepts have …

Effect of flame motion on longitudinal combustion instabilities

Y Song, J Li, L Yang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
In the analysis of combustion instabilities, especially for the longitudinal modes, the flame
typically is regarded as a discontinuity at rest and the flame motion is usually ignored …

[HTML][HTML] An Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian framework for the consistent analysis of entropy wave generation

M Merk, AJ Eder, W Polifke - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
Entropy waves are generated in many technically relevant flow processes such as
combustion, mixing, or convective heat transfer. When accelerated, entropy waves generate …

A novel decomposition approach preventing spurious entropy generation in hybrid thermoacoustic stability computations

G Heilmann, T Liu… - … of Engineering for …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Prominent approaches for the computation of thermoacoustic stability are hybrid methods
like the linearized Navier–Stokes equations (LNSE) or the linearized Euler equations (LEE) …