Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines: Modeling and Numerical Simulations

This book concentrates on modeling and numerical simulations of combustion in liquid rocket engines, covering liquid propellant atomization, evaporation of liquid droplets, turbulent flows, turbulent combustion, heat transfer, and combustion instability. It presents some state of the art models and numerical methodologies in this area. The book can be categorized into two parts. Part 1 describes the modeling for each subtopic of the combustion process in the liquid rocket engines. Part 2 presents detailed numerical methodology and several representative applications in simulations of rocket engine combustion.

Keywords: optical diagnosis technique; advanced modeling of combustion; CFD approaches; Large Eddy Simulation; Direct Numerical Simulation; numerical modeling of atomization; evaporation; turbulent mixing/combustion; heat transfer; combustion instability; liquid rocket engines; liquid propellant atomization; evaporation of liquid droplets; turbulent flows; turbulent combustion; heat transfer; combustion instability; numerical methodologies in this area; numerical methodology for governing equation solutions, Computational / Numerical Methods, Fluid Mechanics, Computational / Numerical Methods, Fluid Mechanics