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The structure of the blue whirl revealed
Joseph D. Chung, Xiao Zhang, Carolyn R. Kaplan +1
The blue whirl is a small, stable, spinning blue flame that evolved spontaneously in laboratory experiments while studying, violent, turbulent fire whirls. The blue whirl cleanly b…
Flame Instability and Transition to Detonation in Supersonic Reactive Flows
Gabriel B. Goodwin, Elaine S. Oran
Multidimensional numerical simulations of a homogeneous, chemically reactive gas were used to study ignition, flame stability, and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in a…
Chemical-Diffusive Models for Flame Acceleration and Transition to Detonation: Genetic Algorithm and Optimization Procedure
Carolyn R. Kaplan, Alp Ozgen, Elaine S. Oran
One of the most important and difficult parts of constructing a multidimensional numerical simulation of flame acceleration and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in a rea…
From fire whirls to blue whirls and combustion without pollution
Huahua Xiao, Michael J. Gollner, Elaine S. Oran
Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in large urban and wildland fires. While fire whirls have long been studied for fire safety…
A Technique for Computing Dense Granular Compressible Flows with Shock Waves
Ryan W. Houim, Elaine S. Oran
A numerical procedure was developed for solving equations for compressible granular multiphase flows in which the particle volume fraction can range dynamically from very dilute to…
The Interaction of High-Speed Turbulence with Flames: Global Properties and Internal Flame Structure
Alexei Y. Poludnenko, Elaine S. Oran
We study the dynamics and properties of a turbulent flame, formed in the presence of subsonic, high-speed, homogeneous, isotropic Kolmogorov-type turbulence in an unconfined system…