Formation of multiple detonation waves in rotating detonation engines with inhomogeneous methane/oxygen mixtures under different equivalence ratios

Z Luan, Y Huang, S Gao, Y You - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of rotating detonation engines is strongly affected by the multiple
detonation waves that occur, although the reason for their formation has not yet been fully …

Investigation of the effect of electrode geometry on spark ignition

SPM Bane, JL Ziegler, JE Shepherd - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Experimental and numerical investigations on propagating modes of detonations: Detonation wave/boundary layer interaction

X Cai, J Liang, R Deiterding, Y Mahmoudi, M Sun - Combustion and flame, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present work the propagating modes of detonation wave in supersonic hydrogen–air
mixtures are investigated in narrow rectangular channels. To clarify the effect of the …

Effects of jet in crossflow on flame acceleration and deflagration to detonation transition in methane–oxygen mixture

H Peng, Y Huang, R Deiterding, Z Luan, F Xing… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The fluidic jet turbulator has been a novel perturbation generator in the pulse-detonation
engines research field for the past few years. In this paper, an experiment is performed to …

Influence of turbulent fluctuations on detonation propagation

BMN Maxwell, RR Bhattacharjee… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The present study addresses the reaction zone structure and burning mechanism of
unstable detonations. Experiments investigated mainly two-dimensional methane–oxygen …

Experimental observation of the combustion modes based on a novel multistage pre-chamber turbulent jet ignition (TJI) system

L Zhou, L Zhong, P Liu, Z Feng, H Wei - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Transient jet flame propagation under newly proposed multistage pre-chambers is studied in
a constant-volume combustion chamber with a high-speed schlieren photography system …

Discontinuous Galerkin method for multicomponent chemically reacting flows and combustion

Y Lv, M Ihme - Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for
application to chemically reacting flows in subsonic and supersonic regimes under the …

A detonation paradox: Why inviscid detonation simulations predict the incorrect trend for the role of instability in gaseous cellular detonations?

MI Radulescu - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
Experiments conducted over the past several decades have shown that the cellular structure
of detonations is responsible for enhancing the detonability of gaseous detonations in the …

A detailed verification procedure for compressible reactive multicomponent Navier–Stokes solvers

PJM Ferrer, R Buttay, G Lehnasch, A Mura - Computers & Fluids, 2014 - Elsevier
The present manuscript reports a numerical verification study based on a series of tests that
allows to evaluate the numerical performance of a compressible reactive multicomponent …

Mechanism of end-gas autoignition induced by flame-pressure interactions in confined space

H Wei, X Zhang, H Zeng, R Deiterding, J Pan… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The main objective of this work is to comprehensively provide a fundamental understanding
of the entire process of the flame-pressure wave interactions with end-gas autoignition and …