Project Number: 029 COMPLETE
Category: Alternative Fuels
This project will develop models to predict the physical characteristics and behaviors of alternative jet fuels within jet engines. Of specific interest is the characterization of primary and secondary breakup of the liquid fuel into droplets and the subsequent evaporation.
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