Publications

Journal publications

F. Frohberg, P. Kandel and A. Ghani
Physics-informed neural networks for reacting flows: species reconstruction with finite-rate chemistry from sparse and noisy velocity measurements
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2025), vol. 41
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P. Porath, L. Altenburg, S. Klein, M. Tummers and A. Ghani
Low velocity streaks combined with intrinsic flame instabilities provoke boundary layer flashback in a turbulent premixed jet-stabilized hydrogen flame
Combustion and Flame (2025), vol. 278
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V. Yadav, M. Casel and A. Ghani
RF-PINNs: Reactive Flow Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Field Reconstruction of Laminar and Turbulent Flames using Sparse Data
Journal of Computational Physics (2025), vol. 524
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P. Porath, V. Yadav, L. Panek and A. Ghani
Image-Based Flashback Detection in a Hydrogen-Fired Gas Turbine Using a Convolutional Autoencoder
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2025), vol. 147 (8)
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F. Lang, M. Savtschenko, V. Yadav and A. Ghani
Evaluation of Data-Driven Classifiers for an Ignition Forecast of Large Gas Turbines
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2025), vol. 147 (2)
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S. Ali, V. Yadav, B. Nouri and A. Ghani
A Hybrid Surrogate Modeling Approach for Data Reduction and Design Space Exploration of Turbine Blades
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2025), vol. 147 (7)
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M. Kuznetsova and A. Ghani
From Abstraction to Design: Interpretable Tree-based Machine Learning for Stable Thermoacoustic System Layout
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2024), vol. 40
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M. Casel and A. Ghani
A Novel Method for Stable Thermoacoustic System Design based on Exceptional Points – Part I: Conceptualization
Combustion and Flame (2024), vol. 267
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M. Casel and A. Ghani
A Novel Method for Stable Thermoacoustic System Design based on Exceptional Points – Part II: Application to Laminar and Turbulent Flame Configurations
Combustion and Flame (2024), vol. 267
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M. Casel and A. Ghani
Analysis of the Flame Dynamics in Methane/Hydrogen Fuel Blends at Elevated Pressures
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2023), vol 39 (4)
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V. Yadav, M. Casel and A. Ghani
Physics-informed Recurrent Neural Networks for Linear and Nonlinear Flame Dynamics
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2023), vol 39 (2)
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A. Ghani and A. Albayrak
From Pressure Time Series Data to the Flame Transfer Function: A Framework for Perfectly-Premixed Swirling Flames
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2023), vol. 145
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A. Ghani and W. Polifke
An exceptional point switches stability of a thermoacoustic experiment
Journal of Fluid Dynamics (Rapids) (2021), vol. 920.
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A. Ghani and W. Polifke
Control of Intrinsic Thermoacoustic Instabilities using Hydrogen Fuel
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2021), vol. 38 (4)
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A. Ghani, I. Boxx and C. Noren
Data-Driven Identification of Nonlinear Flame Models
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2020), vol. 142 (12)
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A. Ghani, T. Steinbacher, A. Albayrak and W. Polifke
Intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback loop in turbulent spray flames
Combustion and Flame (2019), vol. 205
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T. Steinbacher, A. Albayrak, A. Ghani and W. Polifke
Consequences of flame geometry for the acoustic response of premixed flames
Combustion and Flame (2019), vol. 199
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S. Guo, C. F. Silva, A. Ghani and W. Polifke
Quantification and Propagation of Uncertainties in Identification of Flame Impulse Response for Thermoacoustic Stability Analysis
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2019), vol. 141 (2)
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T. Steinbacher, A. Albayrak, A. Ghani and W. Polifke
Response of Premixed Flames to Irrotational and Vortical Velocity Fields Generated by Acoustic Perturbations
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2019), 37 (4)
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S. Guo, C. Silva, M. Bauerheim, A. Ghani and W. Polifke
Evaluating the impact of uncertainty in flame impulse response model on
thermoacoustic instability prediction: A dimensionality reduction approach
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2019), 37 (4)
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D. Mejia, M. Miguel-Brebion, A. Ghani, T. Kaiser, F. Duchaine, L. Selle and T. Poinsot
Influence of flameholder temperature on the acoustic flame transfer functions of laminar methane/air flames stabilized behind a cylinder
Combustion and Flame (2018), vol. 188
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A. Ghani & T. Poinsot
Flame quenching at walls: a source of sound generation
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (2017), vol. 99 (1)
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P. Xavier, A. Ghani, M. Miguel-Brebion, D. Mejia, L. Selle and T. Poinsot
Experimental and numerical investigation of flames stabilised behind rotating cylinders: interaction of flames with a moving wall
Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017), vol. 813 (2)
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A. Ghani, T. Poinsot, L. Gicquel and J.-D. Müller
LES Study of Transverse Acoustic Instabilities in a Swirled Kerosene/Air Combustion Chamber
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (2016), vol. 96 (1)
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A. Ghani, T. Poinsot, L. Gicquel and G. Staffelbach
LES of longitudinal and transverse self-excited combustion instabilities in a bluff-body stabilized turbulent premixed flame
Combustion and Flame (2015), vol. 162 (11)
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Selected papers in refereed proceedings

M. Casel and A. Ghani
Impact of the Flame Transfer Function on an Exceptional Point and Implications on the Stability Map
SoTiC 2021 – Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia

V. Yadav and A. Ghani
Recurrent Neural Networks for nonlinear flame models
SoTiC 2021 – Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia

A. Ghani, M. Miguel-Brebion, L. Selle, F. Duchaine and T. Poinsot
Effect of wall heat transfer on screech in a turbulent premixed combustor
Proceedings of the Summer Program 2016
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A. Ghani, L. Gicquel & T. Poinsot
Acoustic analysis of a liquid fuel swirl combustor using dynamic mode decomposition
ASME Turbo Expo: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition (2015), pp. 1-9
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Invited talks

12. Simulation tools and data-driven models for fluid flows
Seminar talk at Charité Berlin, 2023

11. Machine Learning meets high-fidelity numerical simulations
Plenary talk at Physikalisch-TechnischeBundesanstalt Berlin, 2022

10. Pressure time series – a valuable dataset for flame dynamics modeling
Webinar to the ERC Project HYBURN, 2022

9. Machine Learning for Chemically Reacting Flows: Trends and Perspectives
Plenary talk at the 8th Meeting „Combustion Fundamentals“ in Heidelberg, 2022

8. Modern Methods in Combustion Science: high-fidelity numerical simulations combined with first principle and data-driven models
Webinar Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research (BIMoS), 2021

7. AI and Thermoacoustics Modeling – A promising joint venture ?
Webinar at TUM, Department for AI and Robotics, 2020

6. What do we know about the intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback loop ? Experiments, simulations and reduced-order models of perfectly-premixed and spray flames
Seminar talk at University of Cambridge, 2019

5. Experiments, numerical simulations and reduced-order models of intrinsic thermoacoustic instabilities
Seminar talk at Coria, Rouen, 2019

4. Exploration of the intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback loop using experiments, numerical simulations and reduced-order models
Seminar talk at EM2C, CentraleSupelec, Paris, 2019

3. Combustion instabilities: Impact of heat transfer on transverse modes
Seminar talk at TU Munich, 2016

2. Numerical simulation of longitudinal and transverse modes
Seminar talk at TU Berlin, 2016

1. The Lotar setup: Flame Transfer Functions for a two-phase flow configuration
PhD Day at Snecma, Villaroche, 2013