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 …

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 …

Piloted ignition of solid fuels in turbulent back-step flows

AM Tahsini - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Piloted ignition of solid fuels in dump combustor geometry subject to an igniter hot jet plume
is numerically investigated. The objective of this work is to gain insight into the fuel ignition …

Unsteady simulation of ignition of turbulent reactive swirling flow of novel design of solid-fuel ramjet motor

O Musa, X Chen, Y Li, W Li, W Liao - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a numerical investigation of ignition and combustion stabilization of a
novel design of a solid-fuel ramjet (SFRJ) motor with and without swirl flow. The proposed …

Ignition delay time in swirling supersonic flow

AM Tahsini - Acta Astronautica, 2013 - Elsevier
Supersonic hydrogen–air cylindrical mixing layer is numerically analyzed to investigate the
effect of inlet swirl on ignition delay time in scramjets. Combustion is treated using detailed …

Burning rate augmentation in solid fuel ramjets by swirling inlet air stream

AM Tahsini - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The influence of the inlet swirling flow on the regression rate of the fuel in the combustion
chamber of the solid fuel ramjet is investigated in this study using numerical simulations. The …

Transient burning of non-charring materials in boundary layer diffusion flames

AM Tahsini - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, solid fuel transient burning behavior under oxidizer gas flow is numerically
investigated. It is accomplished by the analysis of regression rate responses to the imposed …