Editors: Dr. R. I Sujith
published quarterly • ISSN
1756-8277 • 2008 journal prices/format options
Volume 1 to be published quarterly, Number 1 in March 2009
Scope
Combustion dynamics is a growing area that has received fresh emphasis due
to advances in energy efficient and low emission combustion systems for ground-based
as well as aerospace power plants. The occurrence of thermo-acoustic instabilities,
popularly known as combustion instabilities, has been a plaguing problem in
the development of combustors for rockets, jet engines, power generating gas
turbines and process or domestic heaters. Significant advances in understanding
and controlling combustion instability is critical for pushing the operating
envelope of the existing installations, and in avoiding delays and cost overruns
in development programmes. Understanding and reducing combustion noise has
been a priority in recent times, in an effort towards reducing noise pollution
from power plants. Low emission combustors are prone to combustion instabilities
and flame blow out. Rapid developments in pulse detonation engines are fuelling
research in the area of detonation. Pulse combustors are used to improve the
efficiency of energy intensive processes, by taking advantage of the increased
mass, momentum and energy transport in the presence of high intensity acoustic
fields. Liquid fuels are often used in combustors; therefore, combustion dynamics
is often closely related to droplet and spray dynamics and atomization.
The topic is, of course, not new. However, it has been the case that published research on combustion dynamics has been scattered among numerous journals and conference proceedings, not all of them readily accessible. It is in order to draw this work together in one publication, and to reflect the growing importance of the subject, that the International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics is being established.
The International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics will publish developments covering fundamental and applied research in combustion and spray dynamics. Fundamental topics include advances in understanding unsteady combustion, combustion instability and noise, flame-acoustic interaction and its active and passive control, duct acoustics, blow out and flash back, deflagration and detonations, droplet and spray dynamics and combustion, atomisation, droplet and spray-acoustic interactions,. Applied topics include all aspects of combustion instabilities in solid and liquid rocket motors and gas turbine combustors, combustion noise, pulse detonation engines, active control of combustion instabilities and active control of sprays. As well as original contributions, state of the art reviews and surveys will be published.
Subtopics include, among others, experimental diagnostics of combustion dynamics, computational combustion including RANS and LES for the study of combustion dynamics, unsteady fluid mechanics, mixing, system identification and low order modelling of dynamic phenomena, role of coherent structures in combustion dynamics, flame response measurements and calculation, non-normality and nonlinearity in flame acoustic interaction, analytical acoustics, liquid sheet break-up and stability, active control of sprays, experimental diagnostics of sprays, modelling of spray break-up phenomena, two phase flow modelling and spray and droplet combustion.
Dr. R. I Sujith
Professor, Departmentof Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036,
India
Alain Berlemont, France (Coria)
M. J. Brear, Australia (U Melbourne)
A. K. Gupta, USA (U. Maryland)
Y. Hardalupas, UK (Imperial College)
K. Kailasanath, USA (Naval Research Lab)
T. Lieuwen, USA (Georgia Tech)
F. Nicoud, France (Montpellier)
W. Polifke, Germany (TU Munich)
B. Schuermans, Switzerland (Alstom)
C. Willert, Germany (DLR Köln)