This study investigates combustion clouds embedded in unconfined spherical explosions. Two charge configurations are considered: a 0.5-g spherical PETN booster surrounded by a spherical shell of either 1-g of TNT solid or of 1-g of Aluminum (Al) powder; these provide the fuel for the combustion process. Detonation of booster disperses the fuel, whose expansion drives a blast wave into the surro...

Title of Document: Investigation of Colorless Distributed Combustion (CDC) with Swirl for Gas Turbine Application Ahmed Essam ElDin Khalil Hasan, PhD, 2013 Directed By: Dr. Ashwani K. Gupta Distinguished University Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Colorless Distributed Combustion (CDC) with swirl is investigated for gas turbine engine applications due to its benefits for ultra-low...

The work presented in this paper is an attempt to evaluate the exhaust emission characteristics of a hydrogen-ethanol dual fuel combination with different percents of hydrogen substitutions (i.e. 0-80 % by volume and of 20 % increment ) at three different compression ratios of 7:1, 9:1 and 11:1. Experimental investigations have been carried out on a computer interfaced with; four-stroke cycle, ...

Increased understanding is needed with respect to soot formation from high pressure diesel sprays as emissions standards become increasingly stringent and require complex methods for its reduction. Understanding soot formation and its spatial distributions is necessary to advance fundamental spray combustion knowledge. Given that the underlying nature of high pressure combusting diesel sprays r...

The use of detailed chemical reaction mechanisms of kerosene is still very limited in analyzing the combustion process in the combustion chamber of the aircraft engine. In this work, a new reduced chemical kinetic mechanism for fuel n-decane, which selected as a surrogate fuel for kerosene, containing 210 elemental reactions (including 92 reversible reactions and 26 irreversible reactions) and ...

in this work, ce0.75gd0.1ca0.15o1.8 nanopowders are successfully synthesized by a glycine-nitrate combustionprocess under the microwave irradiation. then calcination was carried out at 700 °c. calcined powdersidentified by room temperature x-ray diffraction were single phase and had a crystallite size between 16 to 24nm (based on schererr formula). scanning electron microscopy (sem) was employe...