Numerical simulations of combustion in a porous medium using a one-domain approach

Many natural substances (e.g. rocks and soil, bones, wood, etc.) and manmade materials can be considered as porous media. The study of combustion in those materials can have multiple practical applications (e.g. internal combustion engine, gas turbine, etc.). In this thesis, we developed a combustion model using a single domain approach. This means that a single set of governing equations is valid simultaneously valid in both the porous and the pure-fluid domains. The combustion model is an amelioration of the one developed in “Modelling and numerical simulation of transient flows in superposed porous and pure-fluid layers” by Panagiotis Dimitrios Antoniadis. The influence of the combustion products in the evolution of the flow around the combustion were the main differences with the original model. This model was also used to simulate a fire in a canopy.