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 …

The initiation of turbulent non-premixed combustion of gaseous fuels through autoignition
and through spark ignition is reviewed, motivated by the increasing relevance of these …

Rotating detonation combustion fueled with partially prevaporized n-heptane sprays is
studied with the Eulerian–Lagrangian method. A flattened two-dimensional domain with …

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 …

The algorithm of directed relation graph recently developed for skeletal mechanism
reduction was extended to overall linear time operation, thereby greatly facilitating the …

The effect of thermal stratification on the ignition of a lean homogeneous n-heptane/air
mixture at constant volume and high pressure is investigated by direct numerical simulations …

Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations that include realistic combustion/emissions
chemistry hold the promise of significantly shortening the development time for advanced …

Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations are conducted for two-dimensional Rotating Detonative
Combustion (RDC) fueled by partially prevaporized n-heptane dilute sprays by using coarse …

Detonation has promising applications in advanced propulsion systems, and numerical
simulation is widely used to gain insights into the complex interaction between the …

A 55-species reduced mechanism for n-heptane oxidation was derived from a 188-species
skeletal mechanism, which was previously obtained from a detailed mechanism consisting …