Fundamental Mechanisms, Predictive Modeling, and Novel Aerospace Applications of Plasma Assisted Combustion

Abstract

Drexel Group: Main Tasks. Thrust 1. Experimental studies of nonequilibrium air-fuel plasma kinetics using advanced non-intrusive diagnostics * Task 1: Low-to-Moderate temperature, spatial and time-dependent radical species concentration and temperature measurements in nanosecond pulse plasmas in a variety of fuel-air mixtures pressures), and equivalence ratios * Task 4: Moderate-to-high temperature PAC oxidation kinetics in Discharge Shock Tube Facility at pressures up to 10 bar * Task 5: PAC oxidation and combustion initiation at high pressure, high temperature conditions Thrust 2. Kinetic model development and validation Task 8: Development and validation of a predictive kinetic model of non-equilibrium plasma fuel oxidation and ignition Task 9: Mechanism Reduction and Dynamic Multi-time Scale Modeling of Detailed Plasma- Flame Chemistry Thrust 3. Experimental and modeling studies of fundamental nonequilibrium discharge processes * Task 10: Characterization and Modeling of Nsec Pulsed Plasma Discharges Thrust 4. Studies of diffusion and transport of active species in representative two dimensional reacting flow geometries * Task 13: Ignition and flame holding in high-speed non-premixed flows * Task 14: High Fidelity Modeling of Plasma Assisted Combustion in Complex Flow Environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 04, 2009
Accession Number
ADA532908

Entities

People

  • Alexander Konnov
  • Alexander Rakitin
  • Boris Potapkin
  • Nickolay Aleksandrov
  • Sergey Pancheshnyi ;sergey Leonov
  • Svetlana Starikovskaya

Organizations

  • Drexel University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autoignition
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Combustion
  • Decomposition
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Gas Discharges
  • High Pressure
  • High Temperature
  • Ignition
  • Ignition Lag
  • Measurement
  • Oxygen
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Shock Tubes
  • Shock Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster