Combustion characteristics and turbulence modeling of swirling reacting flow in solid fuel ramjet

O Musa, C Xiong, Z Changsheng - Acta Astronautica, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the historical studies have been done on the solid-fuel ramjet engine
and difficulties associated with numerical modeling of swirling flow with combustible gases …

Experimental and numerical investigation on the ignition and combustion stability in solid fuel ramjet with swirling flow

O Musa, C Xiong, Z Changsheng - Acta Astronautica, 2017 - Elsevier
The present article investigates experimentally and numerically the ignition and flame
stability of high-density polyethylene solid fuel with incoming swirling air through a solid fuel …

Heat release effects on drag reduction in high speed flows

AM Tahsini - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2013 - Elsevier
Heat addition due to exothermic reactions of ablated chromium in hypersonic flow on coated
blunt bodies is numerically investigated. The advection upstream splitting method is used as …

Experimental and numerical investigations of the effect of pressure and oxygen concentration on combustion characteristics of Al/Mg fuel-rich propellants

L Li, X Chen, C Zhou, M Zhu, O Musa - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Experimental and numerical investigations are carried out to analyse the effect of pressure
and oxygen concentration on combustion characteristics of Al/Mg fuel-rich propellants. In the …

Evaporation and combustion of n-heptane droplets in supersonic combustor

AM Tahsini, SS Nabavi - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the combustion of the n-heptane droplet
cloud in the supersonic combustor. The finite volume solver is developed to simulate the two …

Influence of moisture on autoignition of woods in cone calorimeter

L Shi, MYL Chew - Journal of fire sciences, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Six species of wood samples, namely, pine, beech, cherry, oak, maple, and ash, were
investigated by autoignition in a cone calorimeter to identify the influence of moisture on …

Assessment of the combustion chambers' atmospheric test data

MK Ghareh Gheshlaghi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Due to the complexities of the turbulent reacting flows in the combustion chamber of the
turbo-engines, despite significant advances in the computational fluid dynamics, the …

An accurate performance prediction of solid fuel ramjets using coupled intake-combustor-nozzle simulation

AM Tahsini - Journal of Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
The performance of the solid fuel ramjet is accurately predicted using full part simulation of
this propulsion system, where the flow fields of the intake, combustion chamber, and the …

Regression rate response in spin-stabilized solid fuel ramjets

AM Tahsini - Journal of Mechanics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The regression rate of the solid fuel in the spinning solid fuel ramjet is investigated here
using numerical simulations. The finite volume solver of the reacting turbulent flow is …

Combustion efficiency and pressure loss balance for the supersonic combustor

AM Tahsini - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of intake's compression process of the
scramjet on its flight performance. The hydrogen injection to the supersonic cross-flow is …