A review of aircraft subsonic and supersonic combustors

GAQ Abdulrahman, NAA Qasem, B Imteyaz… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combustion is an essential process for generating propulsion for most existing aircraft. The
combustion processes, such as ignition, flame propagation, and flame stability, are …

Review of cavity ignition in supersonic flows

Z Cai, T Wang, M Sun - Acta Astronautica, 2019 - Elsevier
The cavity-based flameholder is a promising device in supersonic combustion issues in a
scramjet engine and it also provides a favorable ignition environment inside the cavity owing …

Cavity flameholding in an optical axisymmetric scramjet in Mach 4.5 flows

Q Liu, D Baccarella, W Landsberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
The dynamics of an optical axisymmetric scramjet, preferred for generic combustion and
flameholding studies without the corner boundary-layer effects that distort the freestream …

Ignition processes and modes excited by laser-induced plasma in a cavity-based supersonic combustor

Z Cai, J Zhu, M Sun, Z Wang, XS Bai - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The ignition processes in an ethylene-fueled supersonic combustor excited by laser-induced
plasma (LIP) were investigated experimentally under the condition of inflow Ma number of …

Experimental investigation of effects of dual-cavity configuration on ignition and flame stabilization in a kerosene-fueled supersonic combustor

G Du, Y Tian, J Le, F Zhong, Y Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of two kinds of dual-cavity configuration on ignition and flame stabilization in a
high Mach number (Ma) kerosene-fueled scramjet were experimentally investigated in this …

Research on time series prediction of the flow field in supersonic combustor based on deep learning

M Guo, H Chen, Y Tian, DS Wu, X Deng, J Le… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The detection of supersonic combustion flow field provides valuable reference information
for the efficient combustion of hypersonic vehicles. From the perspectives of scramjet …

Investigation of ignition and flame propagation in an axisymmetric supersonic combustor with laser-induced plasma

Q Li, J Zhu, Y Tian, M Sun, M Wan, B Yan, T Luo… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ignition and flame propagation in an axisymmetric supersonic combustor were
investigated. The laser-induced plasma was employed to ignite the supersonic inflow with a …

Combustion enhancement via tandem cavities within a Mach 8 scramjet combustor

SA Mecklem, WO Landsberg, D Curran… - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a fundamental numerical investigation of an ethylene fuelled
axisymmetric scramjet using single and tandem cavity flameholders. A scramjet profile was …

Experimental investigation of inclining the upstream wall of a scramjet cavity

MA Trudgian, WO Landsberg… - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The cavity flameholder has been widely used in scramjets to improve mixing and
combustion rates. While many have investigated modifications to the cavity downstream …

Investigation of combustion characteristics in a hydrogen-fueled scramjet combustor

Y Tian, W Shi, M Guo, Y Liu, C Zhang, J Le - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
The combustion characteristics of a hydrogen-fueled scramjet combustor were investigated
experimentally and numerically. One nonreacting case (case 1), and two different …