Coupled interaction between acoustics and unsteady flame dynamics during the transition to thermoacoustic instability in a multi-element rocket combustor

P Kasthuri, SA Pawar, R Gejji, W Anderson… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rocket engine combustors are prone to transverse instabilities that are characterized by
large amplitude high frequency oscillations in the acoustic pressure and the heat release …

Advances in modeling supercritical fluid behavior and combustion in high-pressure propulsion systems

JC Oefelein - AIAA scitech 2019 forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Modeling and simulation of injection, mixing, and combustion of liquid fuels or oxidizers at
supercritical pressures involves many complications beyond the challenges that already …

Large-Eddy Simulation of Liquid Injection and Combustion Processes in High-Pressure Systems

JC Oefelein, G Lacaze - 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Because operating pressures of many modern combustion systems approach or exceed the
thermodynamic critical pressure of the working fluids, developing the requisite scientific …

Heterogeneous detonation physics as applied to high pressure rotating detonation engines

J Humble, SD Heister - AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-1027. vid Rotating detonation
rocket engines (RDRE) have garnered increased attention in the aerospace propulsion …

Large-eddy simulation of cryogenic jet injection at supercritical pressures

J Matheis, H Müller, S Hickel, M Pfitzner… - High-Pressure Flows for …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
The operating pressure of modern high-performance liquid rocket engines (LREs) lies well
above the critical pressure pc of the propellants oxygen (pc, O2 ¼ 5.043 MPa) and hydrogen …

Forced and unforced shear coaxial mixing and combustion at subcritical and supercritical pressures

DJ Forliti, IA Leyva, DG Talley, JI Rodriguez… - 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Combustion stability has been a pervasive issue for propulsion devices. Combustion in a
confined environment may exhibit a feedback-loop phenomenon referred to as a …

Molecular simulations to research supercritical fuel properties

L Qiao, S Jain, G Mo - High Pressure Flows for Propulsion Applications, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Practical engines such as liquid rockets and diesel and gas turbine engines all operate at
high pressures. For example, the chamber pressure of one of the most powerful liquid-fueled …

Measurement of heat transfer in liquid rocket combustors

M Oschwald, D Suslov, J Haemisch, O Haidn… - 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Typical hot-gas temperatures in liquid propellant rocket engines are around 3500 K. At
constant combustion-chamber geometry the heat-transfer coefficients at the combustion …

Chirped-Probe-Pulse Femtosecond CARS H2 Thermometry in a High-Pressure Model Rocket Combustor

Z Chang, R Gejji, A Satija, RP Lucht - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1931. vid Chirp-probe-pulse
femtosecond CARS (CPP fs CARS) temperature measurements of H2 molecules inside a …

Detailed measurement of oxidizer-rich staged combustion injector dynamics in model rocket combustors

MJ Bedard, RM Gejji, WE Anderson, BL Austin Jr… - AIAA Journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents experimental results from a model rocket combustor that uses a gas-
centered swirl-coaxial injector element injecting warm oxygen and ambient temperature RP …