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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
54
Citations
11364
World Ranking
946
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for groundbreaking research in turbulent combustion and its application for gas turbines and internal combustion engines

Overview

Johannes Janicka is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Engineering, with specific emphasis on Computational Mechanics, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Biomedical Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, and Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics explored in their scholarly work include:

  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Radiative Heat Transfer Studies
  • Iron and Steelmaking Processes
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes

Johannes Janicka has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Fuel
  • Combustion and Flame
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Applications in Energy and Combustion Science

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Iron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants," 2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "The role of combustion science and technology in low and zero impact energy transformation processes," 2021, Applications in Energy and Combustion Science
  • "The potential of retrofitting existing coal power plants: A case study for operation with green iron," 2023, Applied Energy
  • "Large Eddy Simulation of a laboratory-scale gas-assisted pulverized coal combustion chamber under oxy-fuel atmospheres using tabulated chemistry," 2020, Fuel
  • "Flamelet LES of a swirl-stabilized multi-stream pulverized coal burner in air and oxy-fuel atmospheres with pollutant formation," 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Their research collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Christian Hasse
  • Hendrik Nicolai
  • Andreas Dreizler
  • Paulo Debiagi
  • Xu Wen

In 2018, Johannes Janicka was awarded the title Fellow of the Combustion Institute for their work related to turbulent combustion and its application in gas turbines and internal combustion engines.

Best Publications

  • A digital filter based generation of inflow data for spatially developing direct numerical or large eddy simulations

    M. Klein;A. Sadiki;J. Janicka

  • Closure of the Transport Equation for the Probability Density Function of Turbulent Scalar Fields

    J. Janicka;W. Kolbe;W. Kollmann

  • Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion Systems

    J. Janicka;A. Sadiki

  • Flow field measurements of stable and locally extinguishing hydrocarbon-fuelled jet flames

    Ch. Schneider;A. Dreizler;J. Janicka;E.P. Hassel

  • Efficient Generation of Initial- and Inflow-Conditions for Transient Turbulent Flows in Arbitrary Geometries

    Andreas Kempf;Markus Klein;Johannes Janicka

  • LES modeling of premixed combustion using a thickened flame approach coupled with FGM tabulated chemistry

    G. Kuenne;Anja Ketelheun;J. Janicka

  • Large-eddy simulation of a bluff-body stabilized nonpremixed flame

    A. Kempf;R.P. Lindstedt;J. Janicka

  • Assessment of Unsteady RANS in Predicting Swirl Flow Instability Based on LES and Experiments

    B. Wegner;A. Maltsev;C. Schneider;A. Sadiki

  • Synthetic turbulence inflow conditions for large-eddy simulation

    L. di Mare;M. Klein;W. P. Jones;J. Janicka

  • Assessment Measures for Engineering LES Applications

    I. Celik;M. Klein;J. Janicka

  • Iron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants

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  • Investigation of lengthscales, scalar dissipation, and flame orientation in a piloted diffusion flame by LES

    A. Kempf;F. Flemming;J. Janicka

  • Large eddy simulation based analysis of the effects of cycle-to-cycle variations on air–fuel mixing in realistic DISI IC-engines

    D. Goryntsev;A. Sadiki;M. Klein;J. Janicka

  • Investigation of the influence of the Reynolds number on a plane jet using direct numerical simulation

    M. Klein;A. Sadiki;J. Janicka

  • Prediction of turbulent jet diffusion flame lift-off using a pdf transport equation

    J. Janicka;N. Peters

  • Experimental and numerical analysis of a lean premixed stratified burner using 1D Raman/Rayleigh scattering and large eddy simulation

    Guido Kuenne;Florian Seffrin;Frederik Fuest;Thabo Stahler

  • Fluid Dynamical Analysis of Atmospheric Reacting and Isothermal Swirling Flows

    C. Schneider;A. Dreizler;J. Janicka

  • A two-variables formalism for the treatment of chemical reactions in turbulent H2—Air diffusion flames

    J. Janicka;W. Kollmann

  • Turbulent opposed-jet flames: A critical benchmark experiment for combustion LES

    D. Geyer;A. Kempf;A. Dreizler;J. Janicka

  • Gas compositional and pressure effects on thermographic phosphor thermometry

    J Brübach;A Dreizler;J Janicka

  • An algorithm for the characterisation of multi-exponential decay curves

    J. Brübach;J. Janicka;A. Dreizler

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Dreizler
Andreas Dreizler Technical University of Darmstadt
Andreas Kempf
Andreas Kempf University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Hasse
Christian Hasse Technical University of Darmstadt
Assaad R. Masri
Assaad R. Masri University of Sydney
Ulrich Maas
Ulrich Maas Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christof Schulz
Christof Schulz University of Duisburg-Essen
Henning Bockhorn
Henning Bockhorn Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Oliver Paschereit
Christian Oliver Paschereit Technical University of Berlin
Cameron Tropea
Cameron Tropea Technical University of Darmstadt
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley Cornell University

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