Special Issue "Combustion Emissions in Propulsion and Power Systems"
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD); multiphysics and multiscale modeling; propulsion and power; turbulent combustion; plasma assisted combustion and fuel reforming; soot/aerosol and flame synthesis of nanoparticles; high pressure transcritical/supercritical fluids; evaporation and phase separation; atomization and sprays; supersonic combustion and detonation; hypersonics; numerical methods for partial differential equations; high performance parallel computing (HPC); machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Aerospace invites contributions to highlight recent advances in the theory, modeling and simulation, and experimental diagnostics to better understand the formation of pollutants from propulsion and power systems, and the development of new technologies to mitigate combustion emissions.
Due to the high energy density requirement, combustion in aerospace propulsion systems is irreplaceable. In addition, the push for electrification of transportation puts a much higher demand of electricity supply without intermittency, which is dominantly provided by combustion. On the other hand, due to concerns around global climate change from greenhouse gas emissions, combustion fuels are gradually shifting from fossil fuels to renewable carbon-free fuels (e.g., hydrogen and ammonia) or carbon-neutral fuels (e.g., biofuels, solar fuels, E-fuels).
For both fossil and renewable fuels, combustion emissions such as soot, NOx, and unburned hydrocarbons are the primary issues to be addressed for clean and efficient energy conversion into electric and propulsive power. For example, the new regulations put restrictions on the ultra-fine particulate emissions, and hence, traditional empirical soot models are not sufficient anymore, and novel detailed soot modeling capable of predicting particle size distributions become necessary. As another example, carbon-free ammonia combustion can get rid of greenhouse gas emissions but generate an enormous amount of NOx far beyond the regulation limit. For all these reasons, a deep fundamental understanding of the formation and evolution of pollutants is needed, as are novel and advanced concepts in combustion technology to mitigate combustion emissions.
The advances of modern theory, computational fluid dynamics, and laser diagnostics provide wonderful tools to address problems in the aforementioned fields and to find new solutions.
This Special Issue of Aerospace will be dedicated to the development of novel tools to model or diagnose pollutant formation and evolution, high-quality emission analyses performed with the aid of these advanced tools, and the development of new technologies to mitigate combustion emissions.
Prof. Dr. Suo Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soot
- NOx
- unburned hydrocarbons
- chemical kinetics
- laminar and turbulent flames
- computational fluid dynamics
- combustion diagnostics
- gas turbines