GALCIT Special Seminar

Refreshments at 3:45pm.

Combustion provides the energy required by aerospace propulsion but raises many difficult issues. Research has allowed considerable progress a result of a continuous effort in this domain. Advances in combustion science will be delineated by looking at the state of knowledge in the middle of last century as exemplified by some of the papers of that period like those written by Karman on the fundamentals of aerothermochemistry and on laminar flame propagation. Substantial advances on the theoretical level have been accompanied by significant developments in experimentation with new laser diagnostics, high speed imaging and digital data processing. Advances in computational combustion have had a profound effect on  scientific research in this field and on engineering applications. Starting with a list of issues encountered in  combustion, advances are illustrated  with a selected number of  topics of interest to aerospace propulsion: Flame structures and detailed modeling of flames,  Turbulent combustion,  Cryogenic flames and transcritical combustion, Combustion dynamics and Computational Flame Dynamics.