Professor Stewart Cant (University of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering)
Location: Stephenson Building, room F16 (first floor)
Time/Date: 23rd February 2012, 16:00 - 17:00
Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) has proved to be an extremely valuable tool for the investigation of turbulent flames. The two principal desired outcomes from DNS are insight into the physics of the flame and its interaction with the turbulent flow field, and statistical data which can be used directly in support of modelling at the industrial level. The present work is concerned with the practice of DNS in the context of limited computing resources, and its use for parametric studies of specific physical and chemical phenomena of interest. Results will include studies of liquid-fuel atomisation, the propagation behaviour of fully-premixed flames, and the response of flames propagating through a non-uniform reactant mixture.
Stewart Cant is Professor of Computational Engineering in the Cambridge University Engineering Department, and is a Fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge where he is involved in teaching Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. He obtained his BSc degree from the University of St Andrews and his PhD from Cranfield University. Since 1985 he has been working in the field of computational combustion and has made a number of contributions to the modelling of transport processes and reaction rates in turbulent premixed flames. He has developed a number of computer codes for the Direct Numerical Simulation of combustion which have been used extensively to obtain statistical data in support of modelling. He is the author or co-author of over 80 refereed technical papers and co-author of a postgraduate textbook (with Prof. E. Mastorakos). He has won the Sugden Award (2000) and the Gaydon Prize (twice, 2004 and 2008) of the Combustion Institute British Section for meritorious papers in combustion. He is the chairman of the UK Steering Committee on High Performance Computing in Engineering and a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on Infrastructure.
Published: 19th January 2012