THE numerous oscillatory and transient motions that have been found in solid propellant
rocket motors share an obvious feature; their existence depends ultimately on some kind of …

Detailed coverage of advanced combustion topics from the author of Principles of
combustion, Second Edition Turbulence, turbulent combustion, and multiphase reacting …

A new approach is presented for modeling steady combustion of energetic solids, in
particular HMX. A simplified, global, gas phase chain reaction kinetic mechanism is …

Strobes are pyrotechnic compositions which show an oscillatory combustion; a dark phase
and a flash phase alternate periodically. The strobe effect has applications in various fields …

The processes affecting the nonlinear acoustic stability of a combustor are examined in an
overview fashion. Emphasis is placed on liquid-propellant rocket motors but other systems …

Of the various unstable motions observed in solid propellant rocket chambers, the most
troublesome currently are those involving oscillatory motions parallel to the axis. Such …

Analysis of thermoacoustic instabilities were dominated by modal (eigenvalue) analysis for
many decades. Recent progress in nonmodal stability analysis allows us to study the …

The triggering combustion instability in the solid rocket motor is investigated from a
nonlinear dynamical system perspective. A coupling model taking both the nonlinear …

A finite-dimensional dynamical system is derived from a coupled system of partial differential
equations modeling the thermoacoustic oscillations inside a solid rocket motor. The …

An analytical framework is developed to understand and predict the thermoacoustic
instability in solid rocket motors, taking into account the non-orthogonality of the eigenmodes …