Review of combustion stabilization for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion

Q Liu, D Baccarella, T Lee - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
A review of fundamental research in combustion stabilization for hypersonic airbreathing
propulsion is presented. Combustion in high-speed airbreathing propulsion systems …

Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry

Y Ju, W Sun - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Plasma assisted combustion is a promising technology to improve engine performance,
increase lean burn flame stability, reduce emissions, and enhance low temperature fuel …

Plasma-assisted ignition and combustion

A Starikovskiy, N Aleksandrov - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2013 - Elsevier
The use of a thermal equilibrium plasma for combustion control dates back more than a
hundred years to the advent of internal combustion (IC) engines and spark ignition systems …

Kinetic effects of non-equilibrium plasma-assisted methane oxidation on diffusion flame extinction limits

W Sun, M Uddi, SH Won, T Ombrello, C Carter… - Combustion and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The kinetic effects of low temperature non-equilibrium plasma assisted CH4 oxidation on the
extinction of partially premixed methane flames was studied at 60Torr by blending 2% CH4 …

Species and temperature measurements of methane oxidation in a nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharge

JK Lefkowitz, P Guo, A Rousso… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Speciation and temperature measurements of methane oxidation during a nanosecond
repetitively pulsed discharge in a low-temperature flow reactor have been performed …

The role of in situ reforming in plasma enhanced ultra lean premixed methane/air flames

W Kim, MG Mungal, MA Cappelli - Combustion and Flame, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper describes a mechanism for the stabilization of ultra lean premixed methane/air
flames by pulsed nonequilibrium plasma enhancement. It is shown that the pulsed …

The role of non-thermal transient plasma for enhanced flame ignition in C2H4–air

D Singleton, SJ Pendleton… - Journal of Physics D …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Transient plasma ignition, involving short ignition pulses (typically 10–50 ns), has been
shown to effectively reduce ignition delays and improve engine performance for a wide …

Investigation of combustion enhancement by ozone additive in CH4/air flames using direct laminar burning velocity measurements and kinetic simulations

ZH Wang, L Yang, B Li, ZS Li, ZW Sun, M Aldén… - Combustion and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The effect of ozone additive on the enhancement of the burning velocity for premixed
methane–air flames is investigated by both experimental measurements and kinetic …

Direct ignition and S-curve transition by in situ nano-second pulsed discharge in methane/oxygen/helium counterflow flame

W Sun, SH Won, T Ombrello, C Carter, Y Ju - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - Elsevier
A well-defined plasma assisted combustion system with novel in situ discharge in a
counterflow diffusion flame was developed to study the direct coupling kinetic effect of non …

Effects of non-equilibrium plasma discharge on counterflow diffusion flame extinction

W Sun, M Uddi, T Ombrello, SH Won, C Carter… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
A non-equilibrium plasma assisted combustion system was developed by integrating a
counterflow burner with a nano-second pulser to study the effects of atomic oxygen …