Plasma assisted combustion is a promising technology to improve engine performance,
increase lean burn flame stability, reduce emissions, and enhance low temperature fuel …

The improvement of the ignition and combustion performance of aerospace engines under
extreme conditions such as high altitude, low temperature, low pressure, and high speed is …

This paper reviews optical measurements of reactive species in atmospheric-pressure
nonthermal plasmas: streamer discharge, dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), plasma jet, and …

The enhancement of laminar flame development using microwave-assisted spark ignition
has been investigated for methane–air mixtures at a range of initial pressures and …

Speciation and temperature measurements of methane oxidation during a nanosecond
repetitively pulsed discharge in a low-temperature flow reactor have been performed …

A parametric exploration of the dynamics of ignition using nanosecond pulsed high
frequency discharges (NPHFD) in flowing mixtures of methane and air is conducted to …

The key challenges to quantitative insight into fuel–air plasma kinetics, as well as plasma-
assisted ignition and flameholding, are identified and assessed based on the results of …

High-speed schlieren visualization and numerical simulations are used to study the fluid
mechanics following a spark discharge and the effect on the ignition process in a hydrogen …

A self-consistent framework for modeling and simulations of plasma-assisted ignition and
combustion is established. In this framework, a'frozen electric field'modeling approach is …

The results of experimental study of plasma-based mixing, ignition and flameholding in a
supersonic model combustor are presented in the paper. The model combustor has a length …