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Combustion and Multiscale Modelling Group (CMM Group)

at The University of Queensland

$Description: Description: C:\home\www\combustion\flameF.jpg$ The group’s broad research objective is investigation and modelling of complex phenomena involving interactions of processes at different scales. While phenomena of different physical origins have been considered, the group has a special interest in developing new modelling approaches for multi-scale processes in turbulence and turbulent combustion. The group leader, A.Y. Klimenko, is credited with development of conditional methods (CMC, PCMC, etc) which represent a methodology for deriving, closing and using equations for conditional expectations in application for practical modelling of reacting flows. The approaches developed by the group include Multiple Mapping Conditioning (MMC), which is an extension of conditional methods that effectively unifies CMC and PDF methods into a single universal modelling method, and sparse-Lagrangian methods, which allow to perform high-quality LES simulations of reacting flows with nearly thousandfold reduction of computational cost. The research fields attended by the group involve reacting flows in porous media, flows with vorticity, coal and its gasification, fires, thermodynamics, competitive modelling, complex competitive systems and other related areas.

The group cooperates with many institutions around the world: University of Sydney, University of Karlsruhe, Cornell University, Universität der Bundeswehr München, University of Wyoming, University of California (SD), Stanford University, Imperial College, Stuttgart University, DOE NETL (USA) as well as many other leading institutions, government organisations and private enterprises.