Project Number: 028 COMPLETE
Category: Alternative Fuels
The overall objective of this activity is to establish a validated predictive capability to evaluate new aviation fuels for the ASTM certification process at rare but important operating conditions such as cold start, lean blow-out, or altitude relight. Experimental demonstration of how different fuels impacts these operating conditions will be supported by detailed numerical simulations in this task.
The researchers’ key objectives are to implement, optimize, and evaluate reaction kinetics models for three test fuels; to evaluate new models that account for fuel injector performance; and to simulate experimental test cases for these operating conditions.
The team will collaborate closely with researchers in other ASCENT projects, as well as industry partners.
Last Updated 3/31/2020
Annual Reports
- 2015 Annual Report – 028A
- 2015 Annual Report – 028B
- 2016 Annual Report
- 2017 Annual Report
- 2018 Annual-Final Report
Lead Investigators
Program Managers
Publications
- Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Reacting Flows with Finite-rate Chemistry and Combustion-model Adaptation
- Fuel Effects on Lean Blow-out in a Realistic Gas Turbine Combustor
- Parallel on-the-fly Adaptive Kinetics in Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Premixed Flame
- Reduced Mechanism Validation and Analysis Near Extinction Limits of Perfectly Stirred Reactors
- A Global Pathway Selection Algorithm for the Reduction of Detailed Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms