Control of NOx and other emissions in micro gas turbine combustors fuelled with mixtures of methane and ammonia

EC Okafor, KDKA Somarathne, R Ratthanan… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Methane–ammonia mixtures have potentials as low-carbon fuels for gas turbines, however
significantly high fuel NOx production in their flames present challenges to their application …

Evaluation of chemical kinetic mechanisms for methane combustion: a review from a CFD perspective

N Zettervall, C Fureby, EJK Nilsson - Fuels, 2021 - mdpi.com
Methane is an important fuel for gas turbine and gas engine combustion, and the most
common fuel in fundamental combustion studies. As Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of combustion instability limit cycle oscillations by combining flame describing function simulations with a thermoacoustic network model

X Han, J Li, AS Morgans - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of limit cycle oscillations resulting from combustion instability has been a
long-standing challenge. The present work uses a coupled approach to predict the limit …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical prediction of combustion instability limit cycle oscillations for a combustor with a long flame

J Li, Y Xia, AS Morgans, X Han - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
A coupled numerical approach is investigated for predicting combustion instability limit cycle
characteristics when the combustor contains a long flame. The test case is the ORACLES …

Large eddy simulations of spray combustion instability in an aero-engine combustor at elevated temperature and pressure

Y Cheng, T Jin, K Luo, Z Li, H Wang, J Fan - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large eddy simulations (LES) of self-excited spray combustion instability in an aero-engine
combustor are performed to investigate the mechanisms of combustion instability. Three …

Detailed numerical simulation of transient mixing and combustion of premixed methane/air mixtures in a pre-chamber/main-chamber system relevant to internal …

F Qin, A Shah, Z Huang, L Peng, P Tunestal… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Transient mixing and ignition mechanisms in a simplified pre-chamber/main-chamber
system are investigated using direct numerical simulation (DNS) with detailed chemical …

Large eddy simulation of a premixed bluff body stabilized flame using global and skeletal reaction mechanisms

N Zettervall, K Nordin-Bates, EJK Nilsson… - Combustion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The increasing computational capacity in recent years has spurred the growing use of
combustion Large Eddy Simulation (LES) for engineering applications. The modeling of the …

Assessment of finite rate chemistry large eddy simulation combustion models

E Fedina, C Fureby, G Bulat, W Meier - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of a swirl-stabilized natural gas-air flame in a
laboratory gas turbine combustor is performed using six different LES combustion models to …

A framework for characterizing structural uncertainty in large-eddy simulation closures

L Jofre, SP Domino, G Iaccarino - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2018 - Springer
Motivated by the sizable increase of available computing resources, large-eddy simulation
of complex turbulent flow is becoming increasingly popular. The underlying filtering …

Coupling heat transfer and large eddy simulation for combustion instability prediction in a swirl burner

C Kraus, L Selle, T Poinsot - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
Large eddy simulations (LES) of combustion instabilities are often performed with simplified
thermal wall boundary conditions, typically adiabatic walls. However, wall temperatures …