We are delighted to announce that the Sustainable Aviation Fuel: controlling flAme dynamics and Reducing emIssions (SAFARI) project has won an ANR, the French National Research Agency Industrial Chairs program.
This project associates the EM2C laboratory (CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay / CentraleSupélec) and SAFRAN TECHNOLOGIES, Safran Aircraft Engine and Safran Helicopter Engine. It brings together 10 EM2C researchers and 10 Safran engineers and will fund the work of 10 PhD students and three post-docs on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) combustion. It is coordinated by Benoit Fiorina.
The SAFARI project aims to gain fundamental insights into SAF combustion's multi-physic phenomena and develop numerical tools for designing future combustion chambers. In particular, the main objectives are:
- to understand the effects of pressure, heat transfer, and fuel composition variability on flame dynamics and pollutant emissions, such as NOx and soot particles
- to generate a detailed experimental database to validate turbulent combustion models
- develop and validate an advanced CFD modeling strategy
- test the relevance of plasma-assisted combustion for improving flame stabilization and preventing combustion instabilities in lean regimes.
