Numerical investigation of confinement effects on a supercritical LOX-methane flame

In this contribution we numerically investigate the effects of lateral confinement on a turbulent, non-premixed, LOx-methane jet-flame at supercritical pressure. The simulations are carried out using a flamelet-based numerical framework capable of including both non-adiabatic and real-fluid effects. It is found that the confinement strongly influences the flame flow-field and as the confinement distance increases the average heat flux insisting on the injector face plate also increases in a more than linear fashion.