Project Number: 029 COMPLETE
Category: Alternative Fuels
Industrial Partners:
- Williams International
- Honeywell
- Pratt & Whitney/United Technologies Research Center
Federal Agencies:
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Defense Logistics Agency – Energy
- NavAir
- Army Research Laboratory
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
International Partners
- National Research Council (Canada)
- DLR (Germany)
- University of Sheffield (UK)
ASCENT Committee Member
- CAAFI
- Boeing
- Shell
- Gevo
Annual Reports
- 2015 Annual Report – 029A
- 2015 Annual Report – 029B
- 2016 Annual Report
- 2017 Annual Report
- 2018 Annual Report – 029A
- 2019 Annual Report – 029A
- 2020 Annual Report – 029A
- 2021 Annual-Final Report – 029A
Participants
Lead Investigators
Program Managers
Publications
- Denoising and Fuel Spray Droplet Detection from Light-scattered Images using Deep Learning
- Spray Characteristics of Standard and Alternative Aviation Fuels at High Ambient Pressure Conditions
- Spray Characteristics of Standard and Alternative Aviation Fuels at Cold-start Conditions
- Non-reacting Spray Characteristics of Alternative Aviation Fuels at Gas Turbine Engine Conditions
- Nonreacting Spray Characteristics for Alternative Aviation Fuels at Near-Lean Blowout Conditions
- High-performance Computing Model for a Bio-fuel Combustion Prediction with Artificial Intelligence
- Experimental Study of Spray Characteristics at Cold Start and Elevated Ambient Pressure using Hybrid Airblast Pressure-Swirl Atomizer
- Lean Blow-out (LBO) Computations in a Gas Turbine Combustor
- Numerical Simulation of Flow Distribution in a Realistic Gas Turbine Combustor
- A Numerical Study of Flame Characteristics during Lean Blow-Out in a Gas Turbine Combustor
- Spray Characteristics of a Hybrid Airblast Pressure-Swirl Atomizer at Cold Start Conditions using Phase Doppler Anemometry
- Large Eddy Simulation of Pilot Stabilized Turbulent Premixed CH4+Air Jet Flames
- Comparison of Premixed Flamelet Generated Manifold Model and Thickened Flame Model for Bluff Body Stabilized Turbulent Premixed Flame
- Spray Characteristics of a Hybrid Airblast Pressure-swirl Atomizer at Near Lean Blowout Conditions using Phase Doppler Anemometry
- An Investigation of the Spray Characteristics of Standard and Alternative Fuel Sprays from a Hybrid Airblast Pressure-Swirl Atomizer Operating at Lean Blowout and Chilled Conditions Using Phase Doppler Anemometry
- An Investigation of Alternative Aviation Fuel Spray Characteristics at Lean Blowout Conditions Using Hybrid Air-Blast Pressure-Swirl Atomizer
- Formulation of Optimal Surrogate Descriptions of Fuels Considering Sensitivities to Experimental Uncertainties
- Large-Eddy Simulation of Fuel Effect on Lean Blow-out in Gas Turbines
- Investigation of Initial Droplet Distribution and Importance of Secondary Breakup Model on Lean Blowout Predictions of a Model Gas Turbine Combustor
- The Role of Preferential Evaporation on the Ignition of Multicomponent Fuels in a Homogeneous Spray/Air Mixture
- Large-Eddy Simulations of Fuel Effects on Gas Turbine Lean Blow-out
- Spray Measurements at Elevated Pressures and Temperatures Using Phase Doppler Anemometry
- Group Contribution Method for Multicomponent Evaluation with Application to Transportation Fuels
- High-Fidelity Simulations of Fuel Injection and Atomization of a Hybrid Air-Blast Atomizer
- Effect of Aviation Fuel Type and Fuel Injection Conditions on Non-reacting Spray Characteristics of Hybrid Air Blast Fuel Injector
- Multicomponent Droplet Evaporation using Group Contribution Methods with Application to Fuel Blends