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Utilization of liquid fuels is crucial to enabling commercialization of rotating detonation engines in the near future. In this study, Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations are conducted for rotating detonative combustion with dilute n-heptane…
Rotors operating in confined flows, or blockage, are commonly encountered in wind and water tunnels, as well as in shallow or dense deployments of hydrokinetic turbines. Confinement induces a streamwise pressure gradient in the channel,…
The problem of engine unstart of scramjets has not been resolved. In this paper, the mechanism of engine unstart is discussed from the point of view of shock/shock interaction and deflagration-to-detonation transition. The shock/shock…
The combustion instability is investigated computationally for a ten-injector rocket engine using the compressible flamelet progress variable (FPV) model and detached eddy simulation (DES). An C++ code is developed based on OpenFOAM 4.1 to…
Detonation-based propulsion devices, such as rotating detonation engines (RDEs), must be able to leverage the higher energy densities of liquid fuels in order for them to be utilized in practical contexts. This necessitates a comprehensive…
Bridging the sim2real gap between computationally inexpensive models and complex physical systems remains a central challenge in machine learning applications to engineering problems, particularly in multi-scale settings where reduced-order…
This study performs a three-dimensional numerical simulation of the coupled flow field in a hydrogen-air rotating detonation combustor (RDC)-turbine system to evaluate the effectiveness of different film cooling strategies for the turbine…
Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations are conducted for two-dimensional Rotating Detonative Combustion (RDC) fueled by bi-disperse n-heptane sprays without any fuel pre-vaporization. Parametric studies are performed to study the influences of…
The intakes of air-breathing high-speed flying vehicles produce a large share of the thrust propulsion. Furthermore, the propulsion performance of these engines increases when the single-ramp intake is replaced with a multiple-ramps intake.…
Hypersonic flight poses unique propulsion challenges, requiring engines that maintain thrust, efficiency, and stability across a wide range of operating conditions. These engines must transition smoothly between flight regimes and…
In this paper, the novel experimental data reported by Qin et al. [1] are used to assess the predictive capability of the Realizable k-epsilon (RKE) model and Reynolds stress transport (RST) model for buoyant jets and understand the reasons…
High-performance computing (HPC) has revolutionized our ability to perform detailed simulations of complex real-world processes. A prominent contemporary example is from aerospace propulsion, where HPC is used for rotating detonation rocket…
In this short Letter, the structure of a rotating detonation wave (RDW) fueled by biofuel is revealed and expounded. The simulation is carried out under an Eulerian-Lagrangian framework in which the main characteristics of the two-phase RDW…
The triumph of heat engines is their ability to convert the disordered energy of thermal sources into useful mechanical motion. In recent years, much effort has been devoted to generalizing thermodynamic notions to the quantum regime,…
In this work, discrete element method (DEM) simulations coupled with machine learning are used to study the process of dry impregnation. Our results show that the particle bed contains two regimes. Regime 1 shows smaller inclination angles…
New experimental data are collected for methyl-cyclohexane (MCH) autoignition in a heated rapid compression machine (RCM). Three mixtures of MCH/O2/N2/Ar at equivalence ratios of $\phi$=0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 are studied and the ignition delays…
Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…
State-of-the-art digital circuit design tools almost exclusively rely on pure and inertial delay for timing simulations. While these provide reasonable estimations at very low execution time in the average case, their ability to cover…
The effect of an initial disturbance on the detonation front structure in a narrow duct is studied by three-dimensional numerical simulation. The numerical method used includes a high resolution fifth-order weighted essentially…
The present paper seeks to determine the mechanism of flame acceleration and transition to detonation when a turbulent flame preceded by a shock interacts with a single obstruction in its path, taken as a cylindrical obstacle or a wall in…