Tsuji burners, in which flames may be anchored the forward stagnation region of a cylindrical porous fuel injector placed uniform air stream, are addressed here for moderately large Reynolds numbers. Attention is focused on conditions under fuel-injection velocity not sufficiently small compared with outer boundary layer to remain attached part cylinder surface. In resulting flow, flame embedde...

The radiant time series method is a new method for performing design cooling load calculations, derived from the heat balance method. It effectively replaces all other simplified (non-heat-balance) methods such as the cool#zg load temperature difference~solar cooling load~cooling load factor method (CLTD/SCL/CLF), the total equivalent temperature difference~time averaging method (TETD/TA), and ...

Studies at the University of Southern California have shown that an unconventional solid-state device, the Knudsen Compressor, can be operated as a micro-scale pump or compressor. The critical components of Knudsen Compressors are gas transport membranes, which can be formed from porous materials or densely packed parallel arrays of channels. An applied temperature gradient across a transport m...

In most coal-fired power plants, pulverized coal and primary air flow from the pulverizers through a network of pipes to the burners. For proper operation of the boiler, all the coal pipes connected to any one of the pulverizers should carry the same coal flow rates and the same flow rates of primary air. Instrumentation is available commercially for making on-line measurements of coal flow rat...

Large power densities in gas turbines can be accompanied by combustion instabilities (Culick & Kuentzmann 2006; Lieuwen & Yang 2005) due to a coupling between the flames and acoustics, creating high pressure and heat release oscillations in the chamber. Such oscillations may destroy the whole propulsion system and combustion instabilities have been a key issue for aeronautics and propulsion sys...

In the present paper, we have presented a Maxwellian boundary-type solution for total internal reflection with unbounded incident waves at an interface between two nonabsorbing media, in which the instantaneous, time varying, and time averaged radiant fluxes have been determined at all points in the two media. Solutions for the s and p polarizations were found for which the instantaneous tangen...