Exploration in COmbustion Safety of Alternative Fuel for Environment – ECOSAFE

ECOSAFE project is focused on the control and safety issues raised by massive implementation of alternative fuel like hydrogen, especially in confined systems such as internal geometry of fuel cell stack. Understanding the conditions for propagation of a flame in such slender geometries requires the systematic study of the coupling processes between the flame shape, the flow, the thermal dissipation at the walls and the acoustics. For that purpose, laboratory experiments will be performed but pose a tremendous challenge in terms of visualizations. Complementary numerical simulations using an novel Reactive Lattice-Boltzmann Model will be a determining step for the project.