Browsing Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering by Supervisor "Devaud, Cecile"
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Fire and Heat Transfer Modelling of Small and Large Scale Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)The present work aims to provide insight on the small- and full-scale models of building construction materials and structures in fire scenarios. Steps are taken toward a long-term goal, which is to develop a complete model ... -
Investigation of Conditional Source-term Estimation Approach to Modelling MILD Combustion
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-27)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model which uses conditional averages to provide closure for the mean chemical source term and is based on the same ideas as the Conditional Moment Closure ... -
Investigation of Turbulent Spray Flames Using the Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model for gaseous combustion. This work aims at extending the CSE formulation to address turbulent spray combustion. The Eulerian-Lagrangian method is ... -
Large Eddy Simulation of Partially Premixed Flames using Doubly Conditional Source-term Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-28)Doubly Conditional Source-term Estimation (DCSE) is a partially premixed formulated closure to model turbulent combustion. The conditioning variables are selected to be mixture fraction and progress variable to represent ... -
Numerical Investigation of Multi-compartment Fire Scenarios using Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-16)The selected fire scenario corresponds to the Propagation d’un Incendie pour des Scenarios Multi-locaux Elementaires (PRISME) Integral Test 4, which is a multi-room configuration with a single pool fire burning Hydrogenated ... -
Numerical Investigation on Turbulent Non-premixed Methanol Flames Using Conditional Source-term Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-18)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model that uses conditional averages to close the chemical source term. Previous CSE studies have shown that the model is able to predict the flame ... -
Numerical Simulations of Small-scale and Full-scale Fire Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-15)A fundamental part of fire safety engineering is dedicated to the application of numerical fire models. Accurate predictions of real-life fires are needed in scenarios related to fire growth, smoke propagation, occupant ... -
Power and Fuel Economy Optimization of Unthrottled Spark-Ignition Engines Using Highly Flexible Hydraulic Variable Valve Actuation System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-16)Variety of technologies along with the mechanisms for their implementations have been developed in order to pursue possible improvements in the performance and efficiency of gasoline engines. Yet, most of the commonly used ... -
Simulation of Soot Formation in Turbulent Diffusion Flames Using Conditional Source-term Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model which uses the conditional averages of scalars for calculating the mean reaction source term in the species transport equation. CSE has been shown ...