Assessment of Machine Learning Techniques for Simulating Reacting Flow: From Plasma-Assisted Ignition to Turbulent Flame Propagation

Mashrur Ertija Shejan, Sharif Md Yousuf Bhuiyan, Marco P. Schoen () and Rajib Mahamud ()
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Mashrur Ertija Shejan: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Idaho State University, Colonial Hall, Room 102, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA
Sharif Md Yousuf Bhuiyan: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Idaho State University, Colonial Hall, Room 102, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA
Marco P. Schoen: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Idaho State University, Colonial Hall, Room 102, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA
Rajib Mahamud: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Idaho State University, Colonial Hall, Room 102, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 19, 1-33

Abstract: Combustion involves the study of multiphysics phenomena that includes fluid and chemical kinetics, chemical reactions and complex nonlinear processes across various time and space scales. Accurate simulation of combustion is essential for designing energy conversion systems. Nonetheless, due to its multiscale, multiphysics nature, simulating these systems at full resolution is typically difficult. The massive and complex data generated from experiments and simulations, particularly in turbulent combustion, presents both a challenge and a research opportunity for advancing combustion studies. Machine learning facilitates data-driven techniques to manage the substantial amount of combustion data that is either obtained through experiments or simulations, and thereby can find the hidden patterns underlying these data. Alternatively, machine learning models can be useful to make predictions with comparable accuracy to existing models, while reducing computational costs significantly. In this era of big data, machine learning is rapidly evolving, offering promising opportunities to explore its integration with combustion research. This work provides an in-depth overview of machine learning applications in turbulent combustion modeling and presents the application of machine learning models: Decision Trees (DT) and Random Forests (RF), for the spatio-temporal prediction of plasma-assisted ignition kernels, based on the initial degree of ionization, with model validations against DNS data. The results demonstrate that properly trained machine learning models can accurately predict the spatio-temporal ignition kernel profile based on the initial energy deposition and distribution.

Keywords: machine learning; combustion; plasma; ignition; turbulence; DNS; DT; RF (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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