This work presents an experimental and numerical study of turbulent chemically reactive flows in a bluff body type burner. The main objective of the present work is to study a non-premixed turbulent flame on a simple geometric configuration. This flame, which burns natural gas and air, is stabilized downstream to a bluff-body. Initially, literature is reviewed on the previous experimental and modeling studies which have been performed on this kind of burner. Then, the mathematical formulation of computational fluid dynamic problem is presented. This is followed by the introduction of the experimental measurements techniques which involve planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF). The discussion of results obtained in this work is divided in three sections. First, a comparison is made between numerical simulations, using four different turbulent models and two different combustion models, and experimental data found in the literature. Is allows to assess capacity of the different models to predict the reactive flow configuration studied. The second section presents the experimental results obtained for three combustion regimes, which are characterized by laser induced fluorescence emission of the hydroxil radical species (OH). This characterization involves the analysis the instantaneous and the average structure of the turbulent flame. Finally, the modeling results are compared to the experimental data obtained. This comparison in evidences the necessity to perform the simultaneous measurement of velocity and chemical species concentration in order to allow for the development of new models of combustion in turbulent flows.