Amir Mahdipour successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Amir!
Dr. Devaud gives an invited talk at the University of Oxford.
J-L. Consalvi, F. Nmira and C. Devaud
Jake Chateauneuf successfully defended his MASc thesis. Congratulations Jake!
The modelling of soot formation is investigated for two turbulent flames, at atmospheric and 3 atm pressure conditions. For the first time, a semi-empirical soot formulation that accounts for soot inception, coagulation, surface growth, and oxidation processes is coupled with the turbulent combustion model, Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) using Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes equations.
Singly Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is extended to Doubly Conditional Source-term Estimation (DCSE) to simulate three turbulent ethanol spray flames (EtF1, EtF3 and EtF4) for the first time. Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes equations are solved with a two-way coupling Eulerian-Lagrangian method to account for the gas-spray interactions.
Cecile Devaud, W. Kendal Bushe, Josette R. Bellan
Turbulent dilute acetone spray flames are simulated in an Eulerian–Lagrangian framework using Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) for closure of the mean reaction rate.