Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry

Y Ju, W Sun - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Plasma assisted combustion is a promising technology to improve engine performance,
increase lean burn flame stability, reduce emissions, and enhance low temperature fuel …

Ultrafast heating and oxygen dissociation in atmospheric pressure air by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges

DL Rusterholtz, DA Lacoste, GD Stancu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A detailed experimental investigation of the mechanism of ultrafast heating and oxygen
dissociation produced by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges in atmospheric …

Kinetic effects of non-equilibrium plasma-assisted methane oxidation on diffusion flame extinction limits

W Sun, M Uddi, SH Won, T Ombrello, C Carter… - Combustion and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The kinetic effects of low temperature non-equilibrium plasma assisted CH4 oxidation on the
extinction of partially premixed methane flames was studied at 60Torr by blending 2% CH4 …

[PDF][PDF] Nonequilibrium plasma-assisted combustion: a review of recent progress

W Sun, Y Ju - J. Plasma Fusion Res, 2013 - jspf.or.jp
Nonequilibrium plasma assisted combustion has drawn significant attention for its great
potential to enhance combustion performance in pulsed detonation engines, gas turbines …

Species and temperature measurements of methane oxidation in a nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharge

JK Lefkowitz, P Guo, A Rousso… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Speciation and temperature measurements of methane oxidation during a nanosecond
repetitively pulsed discharge in a low-temperature flow reactor have been performed …

Thermal and hydrodynamic effects of nanosecond discharges in atmospheric pressure air

DA Xu, MN Shneider, DA Lacoste… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present quantitative schlieren measurements and numerical analyses of the thermal and
hydrodynamic effects of a nanosecond repetitively pulsed (NRP) discharge in atmospheric …

Nitric oxide density measurements in air and air/fuel nanosecond pulse discharges by laser induced fluorescence

M Uddi, N Jiang, IV Adamovich… - Journal of Physics D …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser induced fluorescence is used to measure absolute nitric oxide concentrations in air,
methane–air and ethylene–air non-equilibrium plasmas, as a function of time after initiation …

Effects of non-equilibrium plasma discharge on counterflow diffusion flame extinction

W Sun, M Uddi, T Ombrello, SH Won, C Carter… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
A non-equilibrium plasma assisted combustion system was developed by integrating a
counterflow burner with a nano-second pulser to study the effects of atomic oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of ignition and early flame propagation in methane/air mixtures using nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharge and inductive ignition in a pre …

L Merotto, M Balmelli, W Vera-Tudela, P Soltic - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
An optically accessible pre-chamber setup was used to investigate the ignition occurrence
and early flame propagation in methane/air mixtures at density conditions relevant to engine …

In situ plasma activated low temperature chemistry and the S-curve transition in DME/oxygen/helium mixture

W Sun, SH Won, Y Ju - Combustion and Flame, 2014 - Elsevier
The effect of non-equilibrium plasma activated low temperature chemistry (PA-LTC) on the
ignition and extinction of Dimethyl Ether (DME)/O 2/He diffusion flames has been …