Turbulent Reacting Flows and Supersonic Combustion

Abstract

An experimental and computational investigation of supersonic combustion flows has been 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 multidimensional imaging of species concentration, temperature, velocity and pressure; and, (3) analyses and numerical simulations of compressible reacting flows. The specific objectives and results of the research of each of these program elements are summarized in this report. Supersonic combustion, Turbulent reacting flows, Shear layers, Laser diagnostics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 1993
Accession Number
ADA277462

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluorescence
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Simulations
  • Supersonic Combustion
  • Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
  • Supersonic Flow
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics