Dynamics of cool flames

Y Ju, CB Reuter, OR Yehia, TI Farouk… - Progress in Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cool flames play a critical role in ignition timing, burning rate, burning limits, engine
knocking, and emissions in conventional and advanced combustion engines. This paper …

Understanding cool flames and warm flames

Y Ju - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Low-temperature flames such as cool flames, warm flames, double flames, and auto-ignition
assisted flames play a critical role in the performance of advanced engines and fuel design …

Explosion behavior of non-uniform methane/air mixture in an obstructed duct with different blockage ratios

K Zheng, Q Wu, C Chen, Z Xing, Y Hao, M Yu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation on explosion behavior of non-uniform methane/air explosion
in obstructed duct with different blockage ratios is conducted. The methane/air mixture that …

Effects of initial temperature on autoignition and detonation development in dimethyl ether/air mixtures with temperature gradient

P Dai, C Qi, Z Chen - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017 - Elsevier
For large hydrocarbon fuels used in internal combustion engines, different low-temperature
and high-temperature chemistries are involved in the autoignition processes under different …

Structures and propagation speeds of autoignition-assisted premixed n-heptane/air cool and warm flames at elevated temperatures and pressures

T Zhang, Y Ju - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
The laminar flame speeds and structures of near-limit autoignition-assisted cool and warm n-
heptane/air flames at different ignition Damkӧhler numbers which are the ratios between …

Influence of kinetics on DDT simulations

O Dounia, O Vermorel, A Misdariis, T Poinsot - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) is an intricate problem that has been
tackled numerically, until recently, using single-step chemical schemes. These studies …

Numerical studies on the ignition and propagation for spherically expanding premixed cool flames under gravitational conditions

Y Wang, X Guan, S Xie, M Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Chen… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cool flame speed is a fundamental parameter, which requires special consideration in
terrestrial measurement due to the slow propagation of the cool flame, the intrusion of …

Plasma-assisted deflagration to detonation transition in a microchannel with fast-frame imaging and hybrid fs/ps coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering …

M Vorenkamp, SA Steinmetz, TY Chen, X Mao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examines kinetic enhancement by nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge (ns-
DBD) plasma on fuel-lean, Φ= 0.7, dimethyl ether (DME), oxygen (O 2), and argon (Ar) …

Numerical study on forced ignition and flame propagation in a counterflow of nitrogen-diluted hydrogen versus air

S Xie, X Chen, Y Wang, T Zhang, Z Chen - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is widely perceived as the next generation of clean energy due to its zero carbon
emissions. However, there is an escalating concern regarding hydrogen safety. A deeper …

Effect of pressure wave disturbance on auto-ignition mode transition and knocking intensity under enclosed conditions

J Pan, H Wei, G Shu, R Chen - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
Pressure wave propagation behavior is an essential feature for the combustion under
enclosed conditions, eg internal combustion engines. Previous work by Pan et al.(2016) and …