Move forward on detonation modeling

We are focusing our energy on characterizing hydrogen and DME detonations following simple models and innovative approaches.

Fernando Veiga López, Ángela Martín Milán, Cristian Camilo Mejía Botero, Josué Melguizo Gavilanes, Jorge Yañez
Last updated on Nov 17, 2022 1 min read
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We aim to quickly characterize detonation, think out of the box on how to do that. For that, we are working on:

  1. Modifying the common approaches to obtain simplified chemical kinetics, by matching the steady solutions obtained for detonations with losses and detail chemistry.
  2. Studying the strong influence of low temperature chemistry on DME detonations, which could mimic cool flames but for compressible flow.
  3. Is it possible to rethink the way we characterize detonation cell sizes? What about surfaces instead of lengths? Do they follow any statistical law?
  4. Trying to improve our 1D tools by including missing ingredients to the detonation recipe.

If you are interested on these topics or have some more ideas, contact me!

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Hydrogen Detonations Chemistry
Fernando Veiga López
Fernando Veiga López
Assistant professor of Fluid Mechanics

Passionate researcher on hydrogen combustion for safety and power generation.