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most citedIron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants

165 citations · 368 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.flu-dyn2026

Assessment of turbulent fire dynamics and combustion instabilities using a flamelet model

Yunxiao Yan, Fabian Brännström, Christian Hasse +1

The Sandia one-meter methane fire plume is an established benchmark for turbulent combustion modeling of large-scale flames. This study investigates the combustion instabilities fo…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A Novel Approach for Direct Measurement of the Stretch Factor in Laminar Premixed Hydrogen-Air Flames Affected by Thermodiffusive Instabilities

Marcel Marburger, Christoph Möller, Andrew MacFarlane +5

This study introduces a novel experimental configuration using OH-PLIF imaging to directly determine the stretch factor () in laminar premixed hydrogen flames transitioning fr…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Direct numerical simulation of thermo-diffusively unstable premixed hydrogen-air flames in a fully-developed turbulent channel flow at

Felix Rong, Max Schneider, Hendrik Nicolai +2

Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of premixed hydrogen-air flames anchored in a fully-developed turbulent channel flow (TCF) are performed at a friction Reynolds number of $\mathr…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Spray flamelet structures in a tubular counterflow configuration

Francisco Rivadeneira, Felipe Huenchuguala, Arne Scholtissek +3

In this work, spray flamelet structures subject to curvature are systematically studied, emphasizing the ways in which this quantity modifies the budgets of the corresponding flame…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Unsteady solutions of the spray flamelet equations

Felipe Huenchuguala, Francisco Rivadeneira, Arne Scholtissek +3

Solutions of the spray flamelet equations reported in the literature during the last decade have been limited to very specific situations presenting steady evaporation profiles onl…

cs.CE2025

An Entropy-Stable/Double-Flux scheme for the multi-component compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Vahid Badrkhani, T. Jeremy P. Karpowsk, Christian Hasse

We present a novel combination of numerical techniques to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and robustness of multi-component compressible flow simulations. At the core of our appr…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Numerical Analysis of the Stability of Iron Dust Bunsen Flames

Thijs Hazenberg, Daniel Braig, Johannes Mich +2

This article presents numerical simulations of the response of an iron dust Bunsen flame to particle seeding changes. A validated numerical model is used to study the impact of par…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Analyzing Iron Dust Bunsen Flames using Numerical Simulations

Thijs Hazenberg, Danial Braig, Michal A. Fedoryk +7

This article presents numerical simulations of an iron dust Bunsen flame. The results are validated against experimental results. The burning velocity is extracted from the 3D simu…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 8 cited

Flame-wall interaction of thermodiffusively unstable hydrogen/air flames -- Part I: Characterization of governing physical phenomena

Max Schneider, Hendrik Nicolai, Vinzenz Schuh +2

Hydrogen combustion systems operated under fuel-lean conditions offer great potential for low emissions. However, these operating conditions are also susceptible to intrinsic therm…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 2 cited

Advantages of the adoption of a generalized flame displacement velocity as a central element of flamelet theory

Hernan Olguin, Pascale Domingo, Luc Vervisch +2

In combustion theory, flames are usually described in terms of the dynamics of iso-surfaces of a specific scalar. The flame displacement speed is then introduced as a local variabl…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 3 cited

On the closure of curvature in 2D flamelet theory

Hernan Olguin, Pascale Domingo, Luc Vervisch +2

So far, flamelet theory has treated curvature as an independent parameter requiring specific means for closure. In this work, it is shown how the adoption of a two-dimensional orth…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 24 cited

Carrier-phase DNS of ignition and combustion of iron particles in a turbulent mixing layer

Tien Duc Luu, Ali Shamooni, Andreas Kronenburg +9

Three-dimensional CP-DNS of reacting iron particle dust clouds in a turbulent mixing layer are conducted. The simulation approach considers the Eulerian transport equations for the…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 12 cited

Application of dense neural networks for manifold-based modeling of flame-wall interactions

Julian Bissantz, Jeremy Karpowski, Matthias Steinhausen +5

Artifical neural networks (ANNs) are universal approximators capable of learning any correlation between arbitrary input data with corresponding outputs, which can also be exploite…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 3 cited

Numerical Investigation of the Local Thermo-Chemical State in a Thermo-Acoustically Unstable Dual Swirl Gas Turbine Model Combustor

T. Jeremy P. Karpowski, Federica Ferraro, Matthias Steinhausen +6

In this work, the thermo-acoustic instabilities of a gas turbine model combustor, the so-called SFB606 combustor, are numerically investigated using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) com…

eess.SY2023★ 79 cited

The potential of retrofitting existing coal power plants: a case study for operation with green iron

Johannes Janicka, Paulo Debiagi, Arne Scholtissek +5

Storing electrical energy for long periods and transporting it over long distances is an essential task of the necessary transition to a CO-free energy economy. An oxidation-re…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 3 cited

Techno-economic assessment of long-distance supply chains of energy carriers: Comparing hydrogen and iron for carbon-free electricity generation

Jannik Neumann, Rodolfo Cavaliere Da Rocha, Paulo Debiagi +4

Effective usage of renewable energy requires ways of storage and delivery to balance energy demand and availability divergences. Carbon-free chemical energy carriers are proposed s…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 9 cited

Turbulent flame-wall interaction of premixed flames using Quadrature-based Moment Methods (QbMM) and tabulated chemistry: An a priori analysis

M. Steinhausen, T. Zirwes, F. Ferraro +4

Presumed probability density function (PDF) and transported PDF methods are commonly applied to model the turbulence chemistry interaction in turbulent reacting flows. However, lit…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 165 cited

Iron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants

Paulo Debiagi, Rodolfo Cavaliere da Rocha, Arne Scholtissek +2

As a result of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), several countries committed to phasing down coal electricity as soon as possible, deactivating hundreds of…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 2 cited

Particle formation in oxymethylene ethers (OMEn, n = 2-4) / ethylene premixed flames

Robert Schmitz, Federica Ferraro, Mariano Sirignano +1

Alternative synthetic fuels can be produced by renewable energy sources and represent a potential route for solving long-term energy storage. Among them, oxygenated fuels have the…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 58 cited

Experimental and numerical study on the effect of oxymethylene ether-3 (OME3) on soot particle formation

Federica Ferraro, Carmela Russo, Robert Schmitz +2

The reduction and control of particulate matter generated by fossil fuel combustion are among the main issues for actual and future combustion devices due to the increasingly strin…