PhD Thesis
M.Sc. Andrea Gruber
Department of Energy and Process Engineering
NTNU
Trondheim
The main purpose of this research work is to attempt to improve the basis knowledge for modeling of turbulent combustion near solid surfaces
Preparatory subjects taken at NTNU:
Spring 2002
DIO1002 Combustion Physics
DIO4908 Gas Turbine Combustion
Autumn 2002
DIF8914 Distributed Information Systems (Essay Topic: "Development and evolution of a distributed CFD-code based on the MPI")
DIX0990 Information Retrieval (Week 42)
DIXPROSJ-01 Project Work (Essay Topic: "Treatment of boundary conditions in computational fluid dynamics")
HFAVS853 Scientific Writing (Essay Topic: Review Article on 15 primary articles from the litterature)
SIF5048 Numerical Mathematics
Autumn 2003
DIO1014 Turbulence
Literature
My literature database:
Postscript: bibliography.ps
Portable Data Format: bibliography.pdf
Direct Numerical Simulation
Preliminary calculation of a 2-D anchored, premixed H2-Air "turbulent" v-flame:
- Flooded
isocontours of heat release and white isolines of spanwise vorticity
3-D calculation of an anchored premixed H2-Air flame propagating in a turbulent plane channel flow (REc~3200):

Dissertation
The manuscript of my dissertation: please request the manuscript directly to me!
Tokyo, 5.5.2006
Andrea Gruber,
andrea@andreagruber.net