The influence of cooling air jets on the premixed flame structure and stability of air-cooled bluff-body flameholder

Y Chen, Y Fan, Q Han, X Shan, Y Bi, Y Deng - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
An air jet cooling method is adopted to reduce the temperature of the trailing edge wall of a
bluff-body flameholder. The added cooling air jets would rebuild the flow field and reduce …

Mean pressure gradient effects on the performance of ramjet cavity stabilized flames

AJ Morales, DM Smerina, MR Thornton… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Premixed cavity stabilized flames are experimentally investigated in a high-speed ramjet
engine under the influence of varying mean pressure gradients. The ramjet cavity …

Freestream and shear layer effects in bluff-body-stabilized turbulent premixed flames

CA Fugger, RA Forlines, BT Paxton, AW Caswell… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The effects of low and high approach flow turbulence levels on a large-scale, confined,
premixed bluff-body-stabilized flame are experimentally characterized. The flame and flow …

A new compact active turbulence generator for premixed combustion: Non-reacting flow characteristics

S Mohammadnejad, L Saca, S Kheirkhah - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A new compact active turbulence generator is developed, tested, and characterized, which
extends the capabilities of such generators used in turbulent premixed combustion research …

Flame stability and equivalence ratio assessment of turbulent partially premixed flames

T Badawy, M Hamza, MS Mansour, AM Elbaz… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
This study is geared toward generating highly stabilized partially premixed flames at various
levels of turbulence and partially premixing. Therefore, with the help of the laser-induced …

Four-Line C2*/CH* Optical Sensor for Chemiluminescence Based Imaging of Flame Stoichiometry

ME Tonarely, T Genova Jr, AJ Morales, D Micka… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the present work, an optical sensor was developed and calibrated for the purpose of non-
intrusive equivalence ratio measurements in combustion systems. The sensor incorporates …

Turbulence-driven blowout instabilities of premixed bluff-body flames

AJ Morales, T Genova Jr, J Reyes, I Boxx… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2022 - Springer
Bluff-body flame instabilities are experimentally investigated under varying turbulence
conditions during lean blowout. For all turbulence conditions, the blowout process is …

Large eddy simulation of lean blow-off in swirl-stabilized flame with the subgrid dissipation concept

H Liu, Z Yin, C Xu, J Le, H Liu - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
The lean blow-off mechanism of the premixed swirl flame is numerically investigated by
large eddy simulation (LES) with the subgrid dissipation concept (SDC) combustion model …

Models for Large-Eddy Simulation of reheat combustion

B Vincze, C Mocquard, J Dombard, L Gicquel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Two-phase reactive turbulent Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of the single flameholder
postcombustion test rig of Georgia Tech (Cross et al., 2011) are presented and compared to …

Intermittency Dynamics of Bluff-Body Flames in High Intensity Turbulence

AJ Morales, MK Fortin, S Salauddin… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Premixed flames stabilized in propulsion and power generation engines act as a self-
propagating surface, the dynamics of which become stochastic in fields of high intensity …