Fundamental Mechanisms, Predictive Modeling, and Novel Aerospace Applications of Plasma Assisted Combustion: Laminar Flow Reactor and Nanoparticle Studies at Low to Intermediate Temperatures. Program Overview

摘要

MAIN TASKS: 1. Reaction Kinetics studies with spatially controlled Plasma Discharges 2. Effect of nanoparticle coupling with plasma enhanced combustion in flow reactors and flames. OBJECTIVES: * Development and validation of detailed low-temperature plasma fuel oxidation and ignition mechanisms, including surrogate fuels * Development of reduced plasma chemical fuel oxidation, ignition, and flameholding mechanisms which can readily be incorporated into predictive multi-dimensional reacting flow codes * Identification of specific processes critical to the enhancement of basic combustion phenomena by nonequilibrium plasmas, in particular processes involving radical and/or excited metastable species.