BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The incredible complexity of turbulent combustion has made modeling it and systems in which it is important a goal that researchers know probably won't be reached in their lifetimes.

Most noncondensing residential furnaces use natural draft to drive the combustion process. Even 80%-AFUE furnaces with combustion blowers are natural-draft furnaces. The combustion blower in an 80% ...

The presence of unburned fuel in a power plant’s ash indicates an inefficient combustion process, as some of the energy in the fuel is being wasted. Unburned fuel also poses a risk to safety; if ...

Newly-manufactured indoor residential gas furnaces will have to be at least 95% efficient starting in late 2028 under a new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In an effort to save ...

Using a computational method called direct numerical simulation, Cyrus K. Madnia, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo, and his colleagues in ...