Special Issue on “Advanced Combustion and Combustion Diagnostic Techniques”

Editorial Special Issue “Combustion and Propulsion”

The increasing demand for socially and environmentally sustainable development requires appropriate use of energy resources, particularly in the transportation of people and goods. The main source of energy for propulsion is based on the use of fuels, mainly of fossil origin but increasingly produced from renewable sources. Therefore, combustion processes play a key role in the efficiency of en...

180-mwe Demonstration of Advanced Tangentially Fired Combustion Techniques

Coal Combustion and Combustion Products

On the Dependence of Soot Formation and Combustion on Swirling Combustion Furnaces: Measurement and Simulation

Soot concentration distribution is investigated both numerically and experimentally in methane-air diffusion flame. The experimental work is conducted with a cylindrical swirl stabilized combustor. Filter paper technique is used to measure soot volume fraction inside the combustor. The numerical simulation is based on the solution of the fully-coupled conservation equations for swirling turbule...

Advanced Laser Spectroscopy in Combustion Diagnostics

In recent years, a large number of linear and nonlinear laser-based diagnostic techniques for non-intrusive measurements of species concentrations, temperatures, and gas velocities in a wide pressure and temperature range with high temporal and spatial resolution were developed and have become extremely valuable tools to study many aspects of combustion. Nonlinear laser spectroscopic techniques...