This article explores the possibility of analyzing combustion instabilities in liquid rocket
engines by making use of Large Eddy Simulations (LES). Calculations are carried out for a …

A finite-volume method is developed for simulating the mixing of turbulent flows at
transcritical conditions. Spurious pressure oscillations associated with fully conservative …

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) frameworks of supercritical cryogenic fluids need to
employ Real Fluid models such as cubic Equations of State (EoS) to account for thermal and …

The present paper reviews recent achievements in numerical modeling of super-and
transcritical injection processes during the last 20 years. First, it provides an overview of …

Imaging has long shown that under some high-pressure conditions, the presence of discrete
two-phase flow processes becomes diminished. Instead, liquid injection processes transition …

Mixing is a key point for thrust and efficiency of combustion systems. It becomes crucial in
the case Liquid Rocket Engines as large investments are involved. Besides, the pressure in …

In this study we investigate mixing under transcritical conditions by means of direct
numerical simulation. A temporal jet configuration is used together with thermodynamic …

Certain experiments in quasi-isobaric supercritical injection remain unexplained by the
current state of theory: Without developing a constant value potential core as expected from …

Accurate and robust simulations of transcritical real-fluid flows are crucial for many
engineering applications. Diffuse-interface methods are frequently employed and several …

Liquid rocket, Diesel or aircraft engines may operate in the transcritical regime. In such
thermodynamic conditions, the classical phase change that occurs at subcritical pressure …