Background and activities
Main research area: high resolution numerical modelling of turbulent and reactive flows using direct numerical simulation (DNS).
Active Projects
- BIGH2/Phase III (2018-->2021) - Research, development and demonstration of hydrogen/ammonia-fired aero-derivative gas turbine combustors for off-shore applications. Funded by CLIMIT Demo, Siemens and Equinor. Role: Project Manager.
- NCCS/Task 5 (2017-->2024) - Fundamental aspects of hydrogen combustion and flame stabilization by auto-ignition in reheat combustion system (e.g. Ansaldo Energia's H-class GT36). Funded by NCCS Consortium (FME). Role: Project Manager of Task 5 (gas turbines).
- DiHI-Tech (2018-->2021) - Research and development of a distributed hydrogen injection system for gas turbine combustion applications. Funded by CLIMIT R&D. Role: Project Manager.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
2019
- (2019) Direct numerical simulation of flame stabilization assisted by autoignition in a reheat gas turbine combustor. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. vol. 37 (2).
- (2019) A skeletal mechanism for prediction of ignition delay times and laminar premixed flame velocities of hydrogen-methane mixtures under gas turbine conditions. International journal of hydrogen energy.
2018
- (2018) Direct numerical simulations of premixed and stratified flame propagation in turbulent channel flow. Physical Review Fluids. vol. 3 (11).
- (2018) Premixed hydrogen-air flames interacting with a hydrogen porous wall. International journal of hydrogen energy. vol. 43 (7).
- (2018) NOX formation in oxy-fuel combustion of lignite in a bubbling fluidized bed – Modelling and experimental verification. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. vol. 76.
2017
- (2017) Computation of three-dimensional three-phase flow of carbon dioxide using a high-order WENO scheme. Journal of Computational Physics. vol. 348.
2016
- (2016) Identifying turbulent structures through topological segmentation. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science. vol. 11 (1).
2015
- (2015) Modeling of mean flame shape during premixed flame flashback in turbulent boundary layers. Symposium, International, on combustion. vol. 35 (2).
- (2015) Effect of fuel composition and differential diffusion on flame stabilization in reacting syngas jets in turbulent cross-flow. Combustion and Flame. vol. 162 (10).
2014
- (2014) Direct numerical simulation of laminar flame-wall interaction for a novel H2-selective membrane/injector configuration. International journal of hydrogen energy. vol. 39 (11).
- (2014) GHGT-12 Performance of the IGCC with distributed feeding of H2 in the gas turbine burner. Energy Procedia. vol. 63.
- (2014) Stability and liftoff of a N2-in-H2 jet flame in a vitiated co-flow at atmospheric pressure. Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal. vol. 16 (2-3).
- (2014) Effect of pressure, environment temperature, jet velocity and nitrogen dilution on the liftoff characteristics of a N2-in-H2jet flame in a vitiated co-flow. Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal. vol. 16 (2-3).
2013
- (2013) Fundamental Modeling of a Membrane Reactor with in Situ Hydrogen Separation and Combustion. Energy Procedia. vol. 37.
2012
- (2012) A direct numerical simulation study of turbulence and flame structure in transverse jets analysed in jet-trajectory based coordinates. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 706.
- (2012) Direct numerical simulation of premixed flame boundary layer flashback in turbulent channel flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 709.
- (2012) Mechanisms of flame stabilization and blowout in a reacting turbulent hydrogen jet in cross-flow. Combustion and Flame. vol. 159 (8).
- (2012) Large eddy simulation in generalized curvilinear coordinates using conventional approach: Theory and validation. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. vol. 69 (3).
2011
- (2011) Direct numerical simulation of flame stabilization downstream of a transverse fuel jet in cross-flow. Symposium, International, on combustion. vol. 33 (1).