The topic of my Ph.D. is performing high-fidelity CFD simulations of combustion with conventional and alternative jet fuels. You can find all of my major publications on this page.
Numerical Simulations of Spray Combustion in Jet Engines
This article describes the simulation method that I employ in my research, and demonstrates its accuracy and flexibility across three separate cases. Several fuels are compared, including Jet A, n-dodecane, and the Alcohol-To-Jet biofuel C1.
Åkerblom A, Pignatelli F, Fureby C. Numerical Simulations of Spray Combustion in Jet Engines. Aerospace. 2022; 9(12):838. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9120838
Predictions of Spray Combustion using Conventional Category A Fuels and Exploratory Category C Fuels
A conference paper describing our initial results for conventional and alternative jet fuels across three different cases.
Pignatelli F, Åkerblom A, Fureby C. Predictions of Spray Combustion using Conventional Category A Fuels and Exploratory Category C Fuels. AIAA 2023-1486. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum. January 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-1486
Master Thesis: LES Modelling of Spray Combustion
My master thesis was about laying the foundations for future simulation-based research on alternative jet fuels by setting up a solid baseline method. Limiting myself to kerosene combustion as a start, I set up LES simulations of a generic gas turbine combustor using OpenFOAM. The liquid fuel was modelled as a cloud of Lagrangian particles. Two different chemical reaction mechanisms were employed, one global and one skeletal, in order to see how much this would affect the results.
You can find the full text here: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9049903
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