Turbulent Reacting Flows and Supersonic Combustion

Abstract

An experimental and computational investigation of supersonic combustion flows was carried out. The principal objective of the research was to gain a more fundamental understanding of mixing and chemical reaction in supersonic flows. The research effort comprised three inter-related elements: (1) an experimental study of mixing and combustion in a supersonic plane mixing layer; (2) development of laser-induced fluorescence techniques for time- resolved two-dimensional imaging of species concentration, temperature and velocity; and (3) numerical simulations of compressible reacting flows. The specific objectives and the results of the research is summarized. (jhd)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 15, 1990
Accession Number
ADA221793

Entities

People

  • C. T. Bowman
  • M. G. Mugal
  • Ronald Kenneth Hanson
  • William C. Reynolds

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Dye Lasers
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Simulations
  • Supersonic Combustion
  • Supersonic Flow
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics