Modeling and Analysis of Turbulent Premixed Combustion
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 13847
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Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD); turbulent combustion; fluid turbulence; heat transfer
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Interests: turbulent combustion; multiphase flow; reactive flow; aerodynamics; supersonic flows; gas explosions; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); numerical methods
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Dear Colleagues,
Modern combustion devices for power generation and propulsion purposes need to be simultaneously energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. This has increased the importance of premixed combustion, because thermal NOx formation can be controlled by homogeneously mixing fuel and oxidiser before the combustion process. In industrial applications, premixed combustion often takes place under turbulent conditions and in turbulent premixed flames; the underlying fluid turbulence is significantly affected by the thermal expansion induced by heat release from exothermic chemical reactions. This close coupling between fluid-dynamic and chemical processes poses a major challenge in the simulation and modelling of turbulent premixed combustion. These aspects become increasingly important in the presence of thermo-diffusive instability in the case of lean high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels, which are identified as being alternative fuels for power generation and propulsion. Moreover, premixed combustion in industrial applications often takes place under elevated pressures, where hydrodynamic instabilities (e.g. Darrieus–Landau instability) are more likely to occur due to a large scale separation between the integral length scale and flame thickness, and this increased scale separation for high-pressure premixed combustion also makes the sub-grid scale modelling, in the context of LES, a challenging task. These challenges are exacerbated further when hydrodynamic and thermo-diffusive instabilities interact with each other under elevated pressures. All of the aforementioned challenges make the analysis and modelling of turbulent premixed combustion a topic of significant intellectual and industrial interest. Therefore, we invite high quality original analytical, experimental and numerical contributions, and technical reviews for this Special Issue, which is expected to contribute to the analysis and modelling of turbulent premixed combustion—something which is urgently required in the interests of global challenges of energy economy and environmental safety.
Prof. Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty
Prof. Dr. Markus Klein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- premixed combustion
- turbulent premixed flames
- direct numerical simulations
- large eddy simulations
- experimental diagnostics
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