Chemiluminescence as a diagnostic in studying combustion instability in a practical combustor

MJ Bedard, TL Fuller, S Sardeshmukh… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Prediction of combustion instability is essential in reducing development costs of large scale
rocket engines. Recently, high fidelity CFD models have shown some ability to represent the …

Flame dynamics during combustion instability in a high-pressure, shear-coaxial injector combustor

S Srinivasan, R Ranjan, S Menon - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2015 - Springer
We present a large-eddy simulation based investigation of combustion instability in the
Continuous Variable Resonance Combustor (CVRC); a high-pressure, shear-coaxial …

Influence of angled dispersion gas on coaxial atomization, spray and flame formation in the context of spray-flame synthesis of nanoparticles

M Bieber, M Al-Khatib, F Fröde, H Pitsch… - Experiments in …, 2021 - Springer
Liquid atomization determines the initial conditions for flame formation and particle
synthesis. Without a stable flame, high droplet velocities and thus short droplet residence …

Quasi-1D modeling of heat release for the study of longitudinal combustion instability

ML Frezzotti, F Nasuti, C Huang, CL Merkle… - Aerospace Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
A method for obtaining combustion response functions from experiments or detailed
computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analyses is described and used in a quasi one …

The impacts of three flamelet burning regimes in nonlinear combustion dynamics

TM Nguyen, WA Sirignano - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
Axisymmetric simulations of a liquid rocket engine are performed using a delayed detached-
eddy-simulation (DDES) turbulence model with the Compressible Flamelet Progress …

Transform & learn: A data-driven approach to nonlinear model reduction

E Qian, B Kramer, AN Marques, KE Willcox - AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
T paper proposes a new surrogate modeling approach that unites advantages from two
approaches to nonlinear system approximation: projection-based model reduction and …

Approaches for comparing numerical simulation of combustion instability and flame imaging

JS Hardi, W Zach Hallum, C Huang… - Journal of Propulsion …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
Combustion dynamics are controlled by the coupling between heat addition and gas
dynamic modes, and their direct measurement and comparisons with prediction are key to …

Neural network flame closure for a turbulent combustor with unsteady pressure

Z Shadram, TM Nguyen, A Sideris, WA Sirignano - AIAA Journal, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
In this paper, neural network (NN)-based models are generated to replace flamelet tables for
subgrid modeling in large-eddy simulations of a single-injector liquid-propellant rocket …

Jet flapping and its effect on flame oscillations in the SPP1980 SpraySyn burner

A Kumar, J Kirchmann, F Beyrau… - Experimental Thermal and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present research work aims in investigating the large-scale jet flapping instability during
the primary breakup process and its effects on the liquid shedding and the resulting flame …

Modes of laser spark ignition of a model rocket combustor

R Strelau, M Frederick, WC Senior, R Gejji… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2377. vid The mechanics of laser
induced spark ignition of non-premixed gaseous methane and oxygen are investigated in a …