Brian E. Rice

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe results from a collaboration of experimental and computational investigators who performed detailed computational fluid dynamics and finite element analyses throughout the design and implementation of experiments involving a direct-connect scramjet combustor operating at steady state during long duration testing.

TL;DR: The experiments described in this paper, along with companion data sets, aim to isolate the chemical kinetic effects and turbulence-chemistry interaction from the fuel-air mixing process in a dual-mode scramjet combustion environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nonintrusive direct approach for the measurement of combustion efficiency is presented that combines the optical diagnostic techniques tunable diode laser absorption tomography and stereoscopic particle image velocimetry.

TL;DR: In this article, detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element thermal-structural analyses (FEA) have been performed throughout the design and implementation of a direct-connect scramjet combustor operating at steady state during long duration testing on the order of an hour or more.