Simulation of premixed turbulent flames

Abstract

Premixed turbulent flames are of increasing practical importance and remain a significant research challenge in the combustion community. In this paper we discuss a numerical methodology we have developed that combines a low-Mach number formulation combined with adaptive mesh refinement to exploit the variation of scales associated with premixed flame simulations. This combined approach, when implemented on parallel computing hardware, improves computational efficiency by several orders of magnitude. © 2006 IOP Publishing Ltd.