A review on Shock tubes with multitudinous applications

GS Balan, SA Raj - International journal of impact engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Shock tubes simulate jet aerodynamics and investigate the behavior of high-temperature
materials, which has significantly evolved since 1899. This article examines the changes in …

Microwave discharges in liquid hydrocarbons: physical and chemical characterization

YA Lebedev - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microwave discharges in dielectric liquids are a relatively new area of plasma physics and
plasma application. This review cumulates results on microwave discharges in wide classes …

A lumped kinetic model for high-temperature pyrolysis and combustion of 50 surrogate fuel components and their mixtures

X Zhang, SM Sarathy - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Wide distillation fuels (WDF) and gasoline/diesel blends have been proposed as new fuel
formulations for advanced combustion engines. Recent studies have shown that multi …

A pyrolysis study of allylic hydrocarbon fuels

SS Nagaraja, G Kukkadapu… - … Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The pyrolysis of selected C3–C5 allylic hydrocarbons has been studied using a single‐pulse
shock tube. A new single‐pulse shock tube has been designed and constructed by …

[HTML][HTML] A fundamental study on the pyrolysis of hydrocarbons

SS Nagaraja, AB Sahu, S Panigrahy, HJ Curran - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
A newly developed detailed chemical kinetic mechanism, NUIGMech1. 1, is used to study
the pyrolysis of C 1–C 7 hydrocarbons at a constant initial fuel concentration in the …

Laminar premixed and non-premixed flame investigation on the influence of dimethyl ether addition on n-heptane combustion

J Wullenkord, I Graf, M Baroncelli, D Felsmann… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several different ether components have been proposed as renewable replacements for
diesel fuel in compression ignition engines. From a fundamental point of view, blends of n …

A functional-group-based approach to modeling real-fuel combustion chemistry–I: Prediction of stoichiometric parameters for lumped pyrolysis reactions

X Zhang, KK Yalamanchi, SM Sarathy - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
Real fuels are complex mixtures of hundreds of molecules, which makes it challenging to
unravel their combustion chemistry. Several approaches in the literature have helped to …

Laboratory investigation of shock-induced dissociation of buckminsterfullerene and astrophysical insights

S Chakraborty, SN Yurchenko, R Georges… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Fullerene C 60 is one of the most iconic forms of carbon found in the interstellar medium
(ISM). The interstellar chemistry of carbon-rich components, including fullerenes, is driven by …

Investigation of the partial oxidation of methane/n-heptane-mixtures and the interaction of methane and n-heptane under ultra-rich conditions

D Kaczmarek, B Atakan, T Kasper - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
The homogeneous partial oxidation of methane is an interesting approach to obtain useful
chemicals like synthesis gas, higher hydrocarbons, aldehydes or alcohols. Because of the …

Experimental study on n-hexane pyrolysis initiated by 1-nitropropane in a low-pressure flow reactor

Y He, J Song, J Yang, Y Zhuang, L Qiu, Z Li… - Journal of the Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to investigate the species pool and primary channels of initiated pyrolysis of n-
hexane, the low-pressure (30 Torr, 4.0 kPa) flow reactor pyrolysis of n-hexane initiated by …