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43
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1760
National Ranking
128

Overview

RS Cant is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research is focused primarily within Engineering, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Aerospace Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.

The scientist's work spans several main research topics including Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Fire Dynamics and Safety Research, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory, and Combustion and Detonation Processes.

RS Cant has contributed to a number of recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • An unstructured adaptive mesh refinement approach for computational fluid dynamics of reacting flows, 2022, Journal of Computational Physics
  • Three dimensional measurements of surface areas and burning velocities of turbulent spherical flames, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Turbulence Intensity and Length Scale Effects on Premixed Turbulent Flame Propagation, 2021, Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • Molecular level simulations of combustion processes using the DSMC method, 2021, Combustion Theory and Modelling
  • Analysis of flame-flame interactions in premixed hydrocarbon and hydrogen flames, 2020, Physical Review Fluids

RS Cant frequently collaborates with a network of coauthors. Among the most frequent collaborators are Shrey Trivedi, Hassan Ahmed, Umair Ahmed, Girish V. Nivarti, and J. K. Harvey.

Their research has appeared consistently in several specialized publication venues that include Flow Turbulence and Combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Combustion and Flame, Combustion Theory and Modelling, and the Journal of Computational Physics.

Best Publications

  • A flame surface density approach to large-eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion

    E.R. Hawkes;R.S. Cant

  • Implications of a flame surface density approach to large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion

    E.R Hawkes;R.S Cant

  • Modelling of flamelet surface-to-volume ratio in turbulent premixed combustion

    R.S. Cant;S.B. Pope;K.N.C. Bray

  • Some applications of Kolmogorov's turbulence research in the field of combustion

    Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray;R. S. Cant

  • Influence of Lewis number on curvature effects in turbulent premixed flame propagation in the thin reaction zones regime

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

  • An Introduction to Turbulent Reacting Flows

    R S Cant;E Mastorakos

  • Investigation of the nonlinear response of turbulent premixed flames to imposed inlet velocity oscillations

    C.A. Armitage;R. Balachandran;E. Mastorakos;R.S. Cant

  • Effects of Lewis number on flame surface density transport in turbulent premixed combustion

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R.S. Cant

  • Effects of turbulence on spark ignition in inhomogeneous mixtures : A direct numerical simulation (DNS) study

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;E. Mastorakos;R. S. Cant

  • Effects of strain rate and curvature on surface density function transport in turbulent premixed flames in the thin reaction zones regime

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

  • On the Decay of Turbulence in the 20-Liter Explosion Sphere

    A.E. Dahoe;A.E. Dahoe;R.S. Cant;B. Scarlett

  • Direct numerical simulations of autoignition in turbulent two-phase flows

    P. Schroll;A.P. Wandel;R.S. Cant;E. Mastorakos

  • DNS of spark ignition and edge flame propagation in turbulent droplet-laden mixing layers

    A. Neophytou;E. Mastorakos;R.S. Cant

  • A priori analysis of the curvature and propagation terms of the flame surface density transport equation for large eddy simulation

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

  • Experimental measurements of geometric properties of turbulent stratified flames

    P. Anselmo-Filho;S. Hochgreb;R.S. Barlow;R.S. Cant

  • Reaction zones and their structure in MILD combustion

    Y Minamoto;Nedunchezhian Swaminathan;Robert Stewart Cant;T Leung

  • The effects of strain rate and curvature on surface density function transport in turbulent premixed methane–air and hydrogen–air flames: A comparative study

    N Chakraborty;ER Hawkes;JH Chen;RS Cant

  • Direct Numerical Simulation analysis of the Flame Surface Density transport equation in the context of Large Eddy Simulation

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R.S. Cant

  • Effects of Lewis number on turbulent scalar transport and its modelling in turbulent premixed flames

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R.S. Cant

  • Turbulent transport in premixed flames

    C. J. Rutland;R. S. Cant

  • Effects of Lewis number on scalar transport in turbulent premixed flames

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

Frequent Co-Authors

Nilanjan Chakraborty
Nilanjan Chakraborty Newcastle University
Epaminondas Mastorakos
Epaminondas Mastorakos University of Cambridge
Nedunchezhian Swaminathan
Nedunchezhian Swaminathan University of Cambridge
Evatt R. Hawkes
Evatt R. Hawkes University of New South Wales
Simone Hochgreb
Simone Hochgreb University of Cambridge
Ann P. Dowling
Ann P. Dowling University of Cambridge
Christopher J. Rutland
Christopher J. Rutland University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lynn F. Gladden
Lynn F. Gladden University of Cambridge
Jacqueline H. Chen
Jacqueline H. Chen Sandia National Laboratories
Matthew P. Juniper
Matthew P. Juniper University of Cambridge

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