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The importance of hydrogen combustion in the decarbonization of the power and transport sectors has impelled its research in order to achieve ultra-low emission burners and avoid instabilities that may compromise the combustion chamber. However, the peculiarities of hydrogen, particularly its high diffusivity, may lead to preferential diffusion effects consisting of higher flame speeds, promotion of flame instabilities, achievement of superadiabatic temperatures with the subsequent effect on emissions, flame stability and thermos-acoustics.

On the one hand, the exponential increase in computational power experienced in the last years has opened the door to accurately simulate industrial devices in feasible amounts of time through Large Eddy Simulations (LES), which arise as a cost-effective option for design and analysis. On the other hand, such increase in computational resources has in turn allowed to gather large amounts of data that can be post-processed to reveal hidden patterns through machine learning or, alternatively, the generation of digital twins that accurately reproduce the response of the real system.

This postdoctoral position is intended to apply numerical simulations in the frame of Large Eddy Simulations (LES) to the aforementioned problems extending the capabilities of conventional physics-based approaches with Artificial Intelligence. For the simulations the Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) combustion model will be used due to its accurate description of the flame in the typical operating conditions of thermal engines and ML-based subgrid models will be developed from existing numerical databases. Insights in the flame behaviour will be achieved through the application of data-driven methods, comprising Modal Decomposition techniques along with Machine-Learning based algorithms to generate digital twins.

The research team in which the applicant will be involved is the Propulsion Technologies Group at CASE Department of BSC. The team is a multidisciplinary group with researchers from all disciplines and with strong background in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The team is involved in several EU and industrial projects related to this topic, where the successful activities and the publications on highly ranked scientific journals give the proved expertise.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
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