Advancing predictive models for particulate formation in turbulent flames via massively parallel direct numerical simulations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2022, 2014, Pages

  Bisetti, Fabrizio ^a   Attili, Antonio ^a   Pitsch, Heinz ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Intermittency; Soot; Turbulent combustion

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; POLLUTION; SOOT;

INDUSTRIAL BURNERS; INTERMITTENCY; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; PARTICULATE FORMATION; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; POLLUTANT EMISSION; STATIONARY POWER GENERATION; TURBULENT COMBUSTION;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84904288633     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0324     Document Type: Article

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