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Classification and computation of extreme events in turbulent combustion

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pecs.2021.100955

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Data-poor problems; Extreme events; Rare events

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
  2. Air Force Of-fice of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-15-1-0378, FA9550-16-1-0309]

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In practical combustion system design, ensuring safety and reliability is crucial, but analyzing failure events and extending it to failure events faces challenges. Specifically, in data-poor problems with high cost data generation, developing predictions for extreme events is critical.
In the design of practical combustion systems, ensuring safety and reliability is an important requirement. For instance, reliably avoiding lean blowout, flame flashback or inlet unstart is critical for ensuring safe operation. Currently, the science of predicting such events is based on prior experience, limited modeling or diagnostic tools and purely statistical approaches. Even though computational and experimental tools for studying combustion devices have vastly advanced in the last three decades, the analysis of such failure events has not been pursued widely. While the use of data for model development and calibration is being widely accepted, the extension to failure events introduces numerous challenges. In particular, the focus here is on so-called data-poor problems, where the cost of generating data is extremely high and is not easily amenable to existing computational and experimental approaches. Data-poor problems are particularly relevant when related to extreme events (also called anomalous events) that can lead to catastrophic failure of the system. It is argued that transient events that describe such failure can have different causal mechanisms. To develop the scientific inference process, a classification of such problems is used to determine specific modeling paths as well as computational tools needed. Research opportunities in the emerging field of extreme event prediction are highlighted in order to identify critical and immediate needs.

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