Gel propellants

MB Padwal, B Natan, DP Mishra - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2021 - Elsevier
The transformation of a liquid propellant into a semi-solid gel state paves way for
energetically improved, reliable, safer, and possibly green futuristic propellant for rocket and …

Review on design, preparation and performance characterization of gelled fuels for advanced propulsion

K Xue, J Cao, L Pan, X Zhang, JJ Zou - Frontiers of Chemical Science and …, 2022 - Springer
With the increasing demand for high-performance and safe fuels in aerospace propulsion
systems, gelled fuels have attracted increasing attention. Because of their unique structure …

Impact of aluminium and titanium additives on ignition and combustion in boron-loaded gelled Jet A-1 fuel

R Madhumitha, A Miglani… - Combustion Science and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A high-energy metal has been identified as a possible supplementary energy
source for liquid fuel, which can be used to fuel volume-limited propulsive devices. However …

Rheodynamics of viscoelastic subdiffusive channel flows: Low Weissenberg number regime

T Chauhan, M Bhatt, S Shrivastava, P Shukla… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulations of viscoelastic, subdiffusive, and plane Poiseuille flow,
representing thick polymer solutions including polymer melts, flows of liquid crystals, as well …

Oil-filled cryogels: new approach for storage and utilization of liquid combustible wastes

KY Vershinina, DO Glushkov, AG Nigay… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A method of preparing oil-filled cryogels on the basis of an aqueous solution of poly (vinyl
alcohol)(PVA) has been elaborated. The stability of primary oil emulsions and their …

High-energy-density gelled fuels with high stability and shear thinning performance

Y Liu, H Zhang, L Pan, K Xue, X Zhang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gelled fuels are the very promising propellants for new-generation rocket and ramjet
propulsion. Here we report a new type of low-molecular mass organic gellant (Z), and …

The micromorphology and large amplitude oscillatory shear behaviors of hydrocarbon gel fuels filled with fumed silica and aluminium sub-microparticles

J Li, H Ma, Y Li, Z Yang, G He, B Wang - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The gel network structure filled with attractive nanoparticles (NPs) significantly affects the
viscoelasticity of the nanocomposites, which is poorly understood and troubles industrial …

Numerical simulation of ignition of a typical gel fuel particle, based on organic polymer thickener, in a high-temperature air medium

DO Glushkov, AG Kosintsev, GV Kuznetsov… - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
Using the results of previous experimental research by means of high-speed video
recording, a mathematical model of ignition was developed for a typical gel fuel particle …

Spatiotemporal linear stability of viscoelastic subdiffusive channel flows: a fractional calculus framework

T Chauhan, D Bansal, S Sircar - Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 2023 - Springer
The temporal and spatiotemporal linear stability analyses of viscoelastic, subdiffusive, plane
Poiseuille flow obeying the Fractional Upper Convected Maxwell (FUCM) equation in the …

Quantifying macrostructures in viscoelastic sub-diffusive flows

T Chauhan, K Kalyanaraman, S Sircar - Journal of Mathematical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present a theory to quantify the formation of spatiotemporal macrostructures (or the non-
homogeneous regions of high viscosity at moderate to high fluid inertia) for viscoelastic sub …