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 …

Experimental study of the effect of nanosecond pulse discharge parameters on the methane-air mixture combustion

J Tian, Y Xiong, L Wang, Y Wang, P Liu, X Shi, N Wang… - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanosecond pulse discharge (NPD) can generate high-energy, active species, which are
favoured in fields such as plasma-assisted combustion. To improve the combustion stability …

Study on the kinetics and energy transfer during ignition of methane excited by NRP-SDBD non-equilibrium plasma

Z Xin, X Li, Z Zheng, Y Hu, R Cao, A Sun, F Zhao… - Journal of the Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
The energy deposition distribution is crucial factor during plasma assisted ignition (PAI)
influenced by streamer morphology, electric field, electron density and gas temperature. This …

New insight into dissociation of molecular oxygen at temperatures below 5000 K

NS Bystrov, AV Emelianov, AV Eremin… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The data available in the literature on measurements of the rate coefficient of molecular
oxygen dissociation were considered and structured. Modern models of hydrocarbons …

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 …

Real-fluid Transport Property Computations Based on the Boltzmann-weighted Full-dimensional Potential Model

X Zhang, J Bai, B Liu, T Zhu, H Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18700, 2024 - arxiv.org
The intermolecular potential plays crucial roles in real-fluid interactions away from the ideal-
gas equilibrium, such as supercritical fluid, high-enthalpy fluid, plasma interactions, etc. We …

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 …

2D Modeling of Plasma Streamer and Glow Phases at Ammonia-Air Flame Conditions

TS Taneja, PN Johnson, S Yang, H Sitaraman… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Streamer and glow plasma phases have been modeled at two thermochemical states of an
ammonia-air flame: fresh reactants and burnt products. A new AMReX-based solver has …