Hydrogen Jet Flames and Hydrogen Explosions

1,5 credits, course, master's level, S7021B

Spring 2027

Do you want to deepen your understanding of hydrogen behavior and its impact on safety, strengthening your role in the green transition? The course provides knowledge about risks in hydrogen handling, focusing on jet flames and explosions.

The course content is:

• Unignited releases

- Expanded and under-expanded jets

• Ignition of hydrogen mixtures

- Piloted and spontaneous ignition

• Deflagrations and detonations

- Vented and non-vented deflagrations

- Vented and non-vented detonations

- DDT, deflagration to detonation transition

• Jet flames

- Froude-based correlations

- Blow-off phenomenon

- Jet flame characteristics

Course syllabus