Large eddy simulation of flows in industrial compressors: a path from 2015 to 2035

N Gourdain, F Sicot, F Duchaine… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A better understanding of turbulent unsteady flows is a necessary step towards a
breakthrough in the design of modern compressors. Owing to high Reynolds numbers and …

An overset grid method for large eddy simulation of turbomachinery stages

G Wang, F Duchaine, D Papadogiannis, I Duran… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
A coupling method based on the overset grid approach has been successfully developed to
couple multi-copies of a massively-parallel unstructured compressible LES solver AVBP for …

Predicting flashback limits in H2 enriched CH4/air and C3H8/air laminar flames

E Flores-Montoya, A Aniello, T Schuller, L Selle - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence of hydrogen blending on the flashback limit of dihedral premixed laminar
flames stabilized on a slit burner is investigated via two-dimensional direct numerical …

Analysis of high performance conjugate heat transfer with the openpalm coupler

F Duchaine, S Jauré, D Poitou… - … Science & Discovery, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In many communities such as climate science or industrial design, to solve complex coupled
problems with high fidelity external coupling of legacy solvers puts a lot of pressure on the …

Influence of slit asymmetry on blow-off and flashback in methane/hydrogen laminar premixed burners

H Pers, PA Masset, E Flores-Montoya, L Selle… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
One way to decarbonize the heat production sector is to gradually replace natural gas with
hydrogen. The design of laminar premixed burners capable of operating with both methane …

Modelling challenges of volume-averaged combustion in inert porous media

PA Masset, F Duchaine, A Pestre, L Selle - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
In porous burners, the flame thickness can be smaller than the pore size, resulting in sharp
and locally-anchored flame fronts. The presence of such steep gradients at the pore level is …

Secondary peak in the Nusselt number distribution of impinging jet flows: A phenomenological analysis

P Aillaud, F Duchaine, LYM Gicquel, S Didorally - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This paper focuses on a wall-resolved Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of an isothermal round
submerged air jet impinging on a heated flat plate, at a Reynolds number of 23 000 (based …

On the sensitivity of a helicopter combustor wall temperature to convective and radiative thermal loads

S Berger, S Richard, F Duchaine, G Staffelbach… - Applied Thermal …, 2016 - Elsevier
The design of aeronautical engines is subject to many constraints that cover performance
gain as well as increasingly sensitive environmental issues. These often contradicting …

Conjugate heat transfer of a rib-roughened internal turbine blade cooling channel using large eddy simulation

S Scholl, T Verstraete, F Duchaine, L Gicquel - International Journal of Heat …, 2016 - Elsevier
This contribution focuses on the conjugate heat transfer computation of a rib-roughened
internal turbine blade cooling channel with a blockage ratio of 0.3 and a Reynolds number …

LES of knocking in engines using dual heat transfer and two-step reduced schemes

A Misdariis, O Vermorel, T Poinsot - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Eddy Simulation of knocking in piston engines requires high-fidelity physical
models and numerical techniques. The need to capture temperature fields with high …