End-gas autoignition and detonation development in ammonia/hydrogen/air mixtures in a
confined reactor is studied through detailed numerical simulations, to understand the …

Autoignition and detonation development are foundational events in the combustion
community and are fundamentally relevant to engine knocking and detonation propulsion …

The authors examine the effects of inhomogeneity in the equivalence ratio on detonation
propagation by using a set of two-dimensional numerical simulations of the detailed reaction …

The combustor employed in small and medium-sized turboshaft engines is characterized by
a small flame tube height and a large distance between adjacent burners, rendering it …

This study investigates the mechanism of detonation propagation in a stoichiometric
hydrogen–oxygen mixture with non-uniform flow velocity entering an expanding combustor …

Despite vast research on engine knock, there remains a limited understanding of the
interaction between reaction front propagation, pressure oscillations, and fuel chemistry. To …

Dome spacing is one of the most critical factors to affect the ignition performance of the
aerospace engine. In this paper, a three-dome model combustor is designed to investigate …

Previous work shows that auto-ignition propagation modes for strong knocking in engines
are dominated by both chemical reactivity and energy density. To clarify the unique role of …

End-gas auto-ignition leading to knocking combustion is one of the major barriers to
achieving higher thermal efficiencies in downsized boosted spark-ignition engines. Despite …

Effects of low-temperature chemistry induced by ultrafine water droplet evaporation on
reaction front development from an ignition spot with temperature gradient are studied in this …