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20182026
most citedThe Pencil Code, a modular MPI code for partial differential equations and particles: multipurpose and multiuser-maintained

192 citations · 317 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

The Effect of Heat Loss During the Early Stages of Flame Propagation and Tulip Flame Formation

Mikhail A. Liberman, Chengeng Qian

The dynamics of premixed flames propagating in two-dimensional and cylindrical channels are investigated using direct numerical simulations of the fully compressible reactive Navie…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Mechanism of tulip flame formation in highly reactive and low reactive gas mixtures

Chengeng Qian, Mikhail Liberman

The early stages of flame dynamics and the development and evolution of tulip flames in closed tubes of various aspect ratios and in a semi-open tube are studied by solving the ful…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

The influence of flame-pressure waves collisions on the development and evolution of tulip flames

Chengeng Qian, Mikhail A. Liberman

The effects of pressure waves-flame collisions and tube aspect ratio on flame evolution and the formation of tulip and distorted tulip flames were investigated using numerical simu…

physics.flu-dyn2023

On the tulip flame formation: the effect of pressure waves

Chengeng Qian, Mikhail A. Liberman

The effects of pressure waves on the tulip flame formation in closed and semi-open tubes were studied using numerical simulations of the fully compressible Navier-Stokes equations…

physics.flu-dyn2023

On the mechanism of "tulip flame" formation: the effect of ignition sources

Chengeng Qian, Mikhail A. Liberman

The early stages of hydrogen-air flame dynamics and the physical mechanism of tulip flame formation were studied using high-resolution numerical simulations to solve the two-dimens…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 25 cited

On the formation of a tulip flame in closed and semi-open tubes

Mikhail A. Liberman, Chengeng Qian, Cheng Wang

The paper examines the mechanism of the tulip flame formation for the flames propagating in closed tubes of various aspect ratios and in a half-open tube. The formation of tulip fl…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Early Stages of Flame Propagation in Tubes with No-slip Walls and the Mechanism of Tulip Flame Formation

Chengeng Qian, Cheng Wang, Michael A. Liberman

The early stages of flames propagation in tubes with no-slip walls and the inversion of the flame front from a convex shape directed towards unburned gas to a concave shape with a…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 192 cited

The Pencil Code, a modular MPI code for partial differential equations and particles: multipurpose and multiuser-maintained

A. Brandenburg, A. Johansen, P. A. Bourdin +34

The Pencil Code is a highly modular physics-oriented simulation code that can be adapted to a wide range of applications. It is primarily designed to solve partial differential equ…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 10 cited

Convergence properties of detonation simulations

Chengeng Qian, Cheng Wang, JianNan Liu +3

We present a high-resolution convergence study of detonation initiated by a temperature gradient in a stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen mixture using the Pencil Code and compare with…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 56 cited

Influence of chemical kinetics on detonation initiating by temperature gradients in methane/air

Cheng Wang, Chengeng Qian, JianNan Liu +1

Different simplified and detailed chemical models and their impact on simulations of combustion regimes initiating by the initial temperature gradient in methane/air mixtures are s…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 33 cited

Influence of chemical kinetics on spontaneous waves and detonation initiation in highly reactive and low reactive mixtures

Mikhail Liberman, Cheng Wang, Chengeng Qian +1

Understanding the mechanisms of explosions is important for minimizing devastating hazards. Due to the complexity of real chemistry, a single-step reaction mechanism is usually use…