Aro And Afosr Contractors Meeting In Chemical Propulsion

Abstracts are given for research in chemical propulsion supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Army Research Office.

Abstracts are given for 6.1 basic research in chemical propulsion sponsored by the Army Research Office and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Partial contents: Supercritical droplet behavior; Fundamentals of acoustic instabilities in liquid-propellant rockets; Modeling liquid jet atomization proceses; Liquid-propellant droplets dynamics and combustions in supercritical forced convective environments; Contributions of shear coaxial injectors to liquid rocket motor combustion instabilities; High pressure combustion studies under combustion driven oscillatory flow conditions; Droplet collision on liquid propellant combustion; Combustion and plumes; Development of a collisional radiative emission model for strongly nonequilibrium flows; Energy transfer processes in the production of excited states in reacting rocket flows; modeling nonequilibrium radiation in high altitude plumes; kinetics of plume radiation, and of HEDMs and metallic fuels combustion; Nonsteady combustion mechanisms of advanced solid propellants; Chemical mechanisms at the burning surface. p15

Abstracts are given for 6.1 basic research in chemical propulsion supported by the Army Research Office and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Abstracts are given for 6.1 basic research in chemical propulsion sponsored by the Army Research Office and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

A hybrid approach for large-eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent combustion with the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model is developed. The need for a structure-based approach can address some of the key challenges arising in the prediction of non-linear physics on the sub-grid scale. The implementation involves hybrid solutions of 3-D LES with 1-D solutions based on the ODT, with ODT elements embedded within the LES computational domain. The solutions require the coupling of LES and ODT, as well as the coupling of the different ODT 'processes'. The proposed methodology represents a fundamentally new framework to address sub-grid scale physics where statistical information cannot be represented in LES-resolved physics or cannot be assumed a priori. Numerical implementation issues are addressed, including a novel implementation of filtered advection for scalars and momentum. Validation studies based on the non-homogeneous auto-ignition show that the proposed framework and specific implementations yield excellent predictions of the physics.

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