High-Pressure Flows for Propulsion Applications.

High-pressure flows occur in nature, in industrial processes and in manufactured devices but not in human personal experience which is limited to atmospheric pressure. In nature, high-pressure flows are found in petroleum reservoirs, at ocean depths, and in the atmospheres of planets such as Venus....

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Superior document:Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series ; v.260
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Place / Publishing House:Reston : : American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics,, 2020.
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Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Microgravity Research on Quasi-Steady and Unsteady Combustion of Fuel Droplet at High Pressures
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. FUEL DROPLET EVAPORATION
  • III. FUEL DROPLET COMBUSTION
  • IV. CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 2 Laboratory Experiments of High-Pressure Fluid Drops
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS OF INTERFACES
  • III. EXPERIMENTAL TEST RIG: A HIGH-PRESSURE APPARATUS FOR FALLING DROPLETS
  • IV. OPTICAL TECHNIQUES: PROGRESS ON DROPLET CHARACTERIZATION AT HIGH PRESSURE
  • V. RESULTS
  • VI. ON THE LIMITS OF VLE FORMULATIONS
  • VII. CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 3 Optical Diagnostics for Sprays at High Pressure
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS AT HIGH PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE
  • III. WHITE-LIGHT IMAGING
  • IV. LASER IMAGING
  • V. TECHNIQUES THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BROADEN THE SCOPE OF MEASUREMENTS
  • VI. OVERVIEW
  • REFERENCES
  • 4 Supercritical Coaxial Jet Disintegration
  • NOMENCLATURE
  • SUBSCRIPTS
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY
  • III. WORKING FLUID AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE
  • IV. RESULTS
  • V. CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 5 High-Pressure Experiments Relevant to Rocket Propulsion
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. BACKGROUND AND PAST EXPERIMENTS IN MODEL ROCKET COMBUSTORS
  • III. MEASUREMENT AND DATA ANALYSIS OVERVIEW
  • IV. MODAL DECOMPOSITION METHODS
  • V. QUANTITATIVE OPTICAL COMPARISONS
  • VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 6 Forced and Unforced Shear Coaxial Mixing and Combustion at Subcritical and Supercritical Pressures
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. BACKGROUND: COAXIAL JET
  • III. EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES AND INSTRUMENTATION
  • IV. RESULTS
  • V. CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 7 Measurement of Heat Transfer in Liquid Rocket Combustors
  • NOMENCLATURE
  • SUBSCRIPTS
  • SUPERSCRIPTS.
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. HEAT-TRANSFER MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGIES
  • III. EXAMPLES OF HEAT-FLUX MEASUREMENTS
  • IV. DISCUSSION OF HEAT-FLUX MEASUREMENT APPROACHES
  • REFERENCES
  • 8 Characterization of Droplet Nucleation Inside Supercritical Ethylene Jets Using Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Technique
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
  • III. SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING
  • IV. DATA REDUCTION
  • V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  • VI. CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 9 Empirical Fundamental Equations of State for Pure Fluids and Mixtures
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. EQUATIONS OF STATE
  • III. FITTING EQUATIONS OF STATE
  • IV. PERFORMANCE OF EQUATIONS OF STATE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
  • V. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 10 Molecular Simulations to Research Supercritical Fuel Properties
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. MOLECULAR APPROACH FOR RESEARCHING SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
  • III. MC SIMULATIONS OF THE PHASE EQUILIBRIUM DIAGRAMS OF
  • ALKANE/NITROGEN MIXTURES USING VARIOUS POTENTIALS
  • IV. MD SIMULATIONS OF AN
  • HEPTANE DROPLET VAPORIZING INTO NITROGEN AT VARIOUS AMBIENT TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  • REFERENCES
  • 11 Large Eddy Simulations of High-Pressure Jets: Effect of Subgrid-Scale Modeling
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND NUMERICAL METHOD
  • III. NUMERICAL ASPECTS
  • IV. CONFIGURATION, BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND INITIAL CONDITIONS
  • V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  • VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 12 High Pressure Flames with Multicomponent Transport
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. NONIDEAL FLUIDS
  • III. BINARY MIXING LAYERS
  • IV. FREELY PROPAGATING PREMIXED FLAMES
  • V. STRAINED FLAMES
  • VI. TRANSCRITICAL DIFFUSION FLAMES
  • VII. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 13 Large-Eddy Simulation of Cryogenic Jet Injection at Supercritical Pressures
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. THERMODYNAMICS MODEL.
  • III. CRYOGENIC SINGLE-COMPONENT INJECTION AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE
  • IV. CRYOGENIC BINARY COMPONENT INJECTION AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE
  • V. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 14 Detailed Modeling of Supercritical Jets and Flames
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. FLUID PROPERTIES IN SUPERCRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS
  • III. KINETIC MODELS FOR HIGH-PRESSURE COMBUSTION
  • IV. METHODOLOGY FOR ROBUST AND ACCURATE SIMULATIONS OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS WITH LARGE DENSITY CONTRASTS
  • V. ROBUST SOLVERS FOR STIFF CHEMISTRY
  • VI. LES OF LOX/GH2 SHEAR-COAXIAL JET FLAME AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE
  • VII. CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 15 Modeling and Simulations of High-Pressure Practical Flows
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. NUMERICAL TOOLS FOR HIGH-PRESSURE REACTING FLOW SIMULATION
  • III. COUPLING REAL-GAS TABULATED THERMOCHEMISTRY AND COMPRESSIBLE LES SOLVER
  • IV. SIMULATION OF REACTING AND NONREACTING TURBULENT FLOWS
  • V. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • APPENDIX A. AEXPRESSION OF THE HEAT CAPACITY AT CONSTANT PRESSURE (
  • APPENDIX B. 2-D CONVECTION OF A MIXTURE FRACTION POCKET [MIXT]
  • APPENDIX C. COUPLING THE REAL-GAS TABULATED THERMOCHEMISTRY WITH A LOW-MACH CODE
  • REFERENCES
  • 16 Large-Eddy Simulation of Liquid Injection and Combustion Processes in High-Pressure Systems
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND SUBMODEL FORMULATIONS
  • III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  • IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • APPENDIX A. THERMODYNAMIC DERIVATIVES AS FUNCTION OF COMPRESSIBILITY FACTOR FOR THE CUBIC EQUATIONS OF STATE
  • APPENDIX B. DEPARTURE FUNCTIONS FOR CUBIC EQUATIONS OF STATE
  • REFERENCES
  • 17 Simulation of the High-Pressure Combustion Process in Diesel Engines
  • NOMENCLATURE
  • SUPERSCRIPT
  • SUBSCRIPT
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. DIESEL SPRAY MODEL
  • III. GOVERNING EQUATIONS FOR THE FLUID PHASE
  • IV. COMBUSTION MODEL.
  • V. CONSTANT-VOLUME COMBUSTION CHAMBER VALIDATIONS
  • VI. DIESEL ENGINE SIMULATIONS
  • VII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • Index.