2026年

• Hongyuan Di, Zhenhua An^*, Chaojun Wang, Lixin Yang, Ryoichi Kurose.    Nongray radiation effect on liquid ammonia combustion in a temporally evolving mixing layer through DNS calculations.    Combustion and Flame, 2026, 287: 114915.    [Link]

• Zhenhua An^*, Ruixiang Wang, Jiangkuan Xing^*, Meng Zhang, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Ryoichi Kurose.    Flame/droplet interaction and combustion mode in a liquid ammonia jet flame.    Combustion and Flame, 2026, 283: 114603.    [Link]

• Ruixiang Wang, Zhenhua An^*, Jiawen Liu, Meng Zhang^*, Jiangkuan Xing, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Ryoichi Kurose.    Effects of pre-evaporation on spray characteristics and flame structures in liquid ammonia jet flames.    Fuel, 2026, 424: 139391.    [Link]

• Xingyuan Liang, Hongyuan Di, Debojit Sharma, Yanqi Zhang, Zhenhua An, Jiangkuan Xing, Ryoichi Kurose.    Effects of flame surface corrugation size and inclination angle on propagation and head-on quenching in turbulent lean premixed partially cracked ammonia flames: A DNS study.    Fuel, 2026, 426: 139492.    [Link]

• Jiawen Liu, Meng Zhang, Jian Chen, Zhenhua An, Xiao Cai, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang.    Stability enhancement of liquid ammonia swirl combustion through nozzle geometry optimization.    Combustion and Flame, 2026, 288: 114986.    [Link]

• Jiangkuan Xing, Zhenhua An, Ryoichi Kurose.    A numerical study on laboratory-scale piloted turbulent jet flames of partially cracked ammonia.    Fuel, 2026, 409: 137702.    [Link]

• Xingyuan Liang, Zhenhua An^*, Debojit Sharma, Ruixiang Wang, Jiangkuan Xing, Ryoichi Kurose.    Effect of confinement ratio and wall temperature on flame topologies and NO emission in premixed partially cracked ammonia swirl flames: a LES study.    Fuel, 2026, 405: 136441.    [Link]

• Xingyuan Liang, Zhenhua An^*, Jiangkuan Xing, Debojit Sharma, Ryoichi Kurose.    Direct numerical simulation of near-wall region quenching and NOx emissions of jet-wall stagnation flow for premixed partially cracked ammonia flames.    Fuel, 2026, 406: 137140.    [Link]

• Hongyuan Di, Xingyuan Liang, Zhenhua An, Jiangkuan Xing, Chaojun Wang, Ryoichi Kurose.    Effects of nongray radiation on propagation and near-wall quenching of partially cracked ammonia premixed flames.    Combustion and Flame, 2026, 291: 115122.    [Link]

• Hongyuan Di, Xingyuan Liang, Tao Ren, Zhenhua An, Wei Chen, Chaojun Wang, Jiangkuan Xing, Ryoichi Kurose.    Direct numerical simulation of turbulence-radiation interaction in premixed partially cracked ammonia flames.    Combustion and Flame, 2026, 291: 115123.    [Link]

2025年

• Zhenhua An, Yanhui Song, Jiangkuan Xing, Ryoichi Kurose.    Large eddy simulation study of ammonia dilute spray flames under MILD conditions.    Applications in Energy and Combustion Science, 2025, 100367.    [Link]

• Jiangkuan Xing, Zhenhua An^*, Xingyuan Liang, Ryoichi Kurose.    Autoignition of Oxygen-Enriched Ammonia Combustion in a Turbulent Mixing Layer under Gas-Turbine-like Conditions.    Energy & Fuels, 2025, 39(7): 3627-3637.    [Link]

• Zhenhua An^*, Ruixiang Wang, Runze Mao^*, Jiangkuan Xing, Meng Zhang, Zhi X. Chen^*, Ryoichi Kurose.    Flame stability and emission characteristics of oxygen-enriched ammonia combustion in a swirl combustor.    Energy, 2025, 324: 135829.    [Link]

• Zhenhua An, Ruixiang Wang, Jiangkuan Xing, Meng Zhang, Ryoichi Kurose.    An experimental and numerical investigation of a liquid ammonia jet flame: spray characteristics close to nozzle and flame structure.    Journal of Ammonia Energy, 2025, 3(1).    [Link]

• Ruixiang Wang^#, Zhenhua An^#, Meng Zhang, Jian Chen, Xiao Cai, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang.    The two-phase characteristics of liquid ammonia jet spray flame in a hot and low-oxygen coflow.    Combustion and Flame, 2025, 275: 114077.    [Link]

• Meng Zhang, Xutao Wei, Zhenhua An, Ekenechukwu C. Okafor, Thibault F. Guiberti, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang.    Flame stabilization and emission characteristics of ammonia combustion in lab-scale gas turbine combustors: Recent progress and prospects.    Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2025, 106: 101193.    [Link]

• Wenjun Lin, Weijie Zhang, Zhenhua An, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Huangwei Zhang.    Effects of combustor wall temperature on the outer recirculation zone combustion modes transition in lean premixed DME/air swirling flames.    Fuel, 2025, 381: 133231.    [Link]

• Jiawen Liu, Meng Zhang, Zhenhua An, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang.    Effect of preheated air temperature on a liquid ammonia flash spray in a swirl combustor.    Droplet, 2025, 4(1): e159.    [Link]

• Jiawen Liu, Meng Zhang, Zhenhua An, Jian Chen, Jinhua Wang, Chenglong Tang, Zuohua Huang.    Morphological and mechanistic study of a continuous flash boiling liquid ammonia spray.    Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37(1).    [Link]

• Yanqi Zhang, Jiangkuan Xing, Zhenhua An, Ryoichi Kurose.    Numerical study on preferential evaporation and combustion characteristic of SAF/Jet A spray flames stabilized in a laminar counter-flow.    Fuel, 2025, 400: 135757.    [Link]

• Jiangkuan Xing, Zhenhua An, Xingyuan Liang, Ruixiang Wang, Ryoichi Kurose.    A comprehensive assessment of reaction mechanisms for NO formation in ammonia/hydrogen/air flames.    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2025, 180: 151598.    [Link]

• Runze Mao, Ziheng Wu, Zhenhua An^*, Min Zhang, Nuoji Li, Han Li, Zhi X. Chen.    Quasi-Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence-Flame Interactions in a High-Karlovitz-Number Ammonia Premixed Jet Flame.    Energy & Fuels, 2025.    [Link]

• Runze Mao, Rui Zhang, Xuan Bai, Tianhao Wu, Teng Zhang, Zhenyi Chen, Minqi Lin, Bocheng Zeng, Yangchen Xu, Yingxuan Xiang, et al.    Benchmarking neural surrogates on realistic spatiotemporal multiphysics flows.    arXiv preprint, 2025, arXiv:2512.18595.    [Link]

2024年

• Zhenhua An, Jiangkuan Xing, Ryoichi Kurose.    Recent progresses in research on liquid ammonia spray and combustion: A review.    Applications in Energy and Combustion Science, 2024, 20: 100293.    [Link]

• Zhenhua An, Jiangkuan Xing, Abhishek Lakshman Pillai, Ryoichi Kurose.    Extended flamelet-based models for liquid ammonia combustion and their evaluation in a temporally evolving mixing layer.    Fuel, 2024, 371: 131964.    [Link]

• Zhenhua An, Jiangkuan Xing, Abhishek Lakshman Pillai, Ryoichi Kurose.    Numerical study on spherical flame propagation in dispersed liquid ammonia droplets.    Fuel, 2024, 357: 129660.    [Link]

• Zhenhua An^*, Weijie Zhang, Meng Zhang, Jiangkuan Xing, Reo Kai, Wenjun Lin, Ruixiang Wang, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Ryoichi Kurose^*.    Experimental and numerical investigation on combustion characteristics of cracked ammonia flames.    Energy & Fuels, 2024, 38(8): 7412-7430.    [Link]

• Min Zhang, Runze Mao, Han Li, Zhenhua An, Zhi X. Chen.    Graphics processing unit/artificial neural network-accelerated large-eddy simulation of swirling premixed flames.    Physics of Fluids, 2024, 36(5).    [Link]

• Jiangkuan Xing, Zhenhua An, Ryoichi Kurose.    Analysis and flamelet modeling of preferential evaporation in SAF/Jet A spray flames.    Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024, 40(1-4): 105707.    [Link]

• Ruixiang Wang, Meng Zhang, Zhenhua An, Xiao Cai, Jiawen Liu, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang.    Topology characteristics of liquid ammonia swirl spray flame.    Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024, 40(1-4): 105740.    [Link]

2023年

• Zhenhua An, Jiangkuan Xing, Ryoichi Kurose.    Numerical study on the phase change and spray characteristics of liquid ammonia flash spray.    Fuel, 2023, 345: 128229.    [Link]

• Jiangkuan Xing, Zhenhua An, Yanqi Zhang, Ryoichi Kurose.    Reduced reaction mechanisms for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF): Isoparaffinic alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) and its blends with Jet A.    Energy & Fuels, 2023, 37(16): 12274-12290.    [Link]

2021年

• Zhenhua An, Meng Zhang, Weijie Zhang, Runze Mao, Xutao Wei, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Houzhang Tan.    Emission prediction and analysis on CH4/NH3/air swirl flames with LES-FGM method.    Fuel, 2021, 304: 121370.    [Link]

• Runze Mao, Jinhua Wang, Weijie Zhang, Zhenhua An, Wenjun Lin, Meng Zhang, Zuohua Huang.    Effect of high hydrogen enrichment on the outer-shear-layer flame of confined lean premixed CH4/H2/air swirl flames.    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46(34): 17969-17981.    [Link]

• Xutao Wei, Meng Zhang, Zhenhua An, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Houzhang Tan.    Large eddy simulation on flame topologies and the blow-off characteristics of ammonia/air flame in a model gas turbine combustor.    Fuel, 2021, 298: 120846.    [Link]

• Meng Zhang, Zhenhua An, Liang Wang, Xutao Wei, Bieerlan Jianayihan, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Houzhang Tan.    The regulation effect of methane and hydrogen on the emission characteristics of ammonia/air combustion in a model combustor.    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46(40): 21013-21025.    [Link]

• Meng Zhang, Zhenhua An, Xutao Wei, Jinhua Wang, Zuohua Huang, Houzhang Tan.    Emission analysis of the CH4/NH3/air co-firing fuels in a model combustor.    Fuel, 2021, 291: 120135.    [Link]

^* Corresponding author. ^# Equal contribution.