<p> Understanding the behavior of liquid hydrocarbon propellants under high pressure and temperature conditions is a crucial step towards improving the performance of modern-day combustion engines (liquid rocket engines, diesel engines, gas turbines and so on) and designing the next generation ones. Under such harsh thermodynamic conditions (high P&T) propellent droplets may experience anywhere from sub-to-trans-to-supercritical regime. The focus of this research is to explore the dynamics of the vapor-liquid two phase system formed by a liquid hydrocarbon fuel (n-heptane or n-dodecane) and ambient (nitrogen) over a wide range of P&T leading up to the mixture critical point and beyond. Molecular dynamics (MD) has been used as the primary tool in this research along with other tools like: phase stability calculations based on Gibb’s work, Peng Robinson equation of state, density gradient theory and neural networks.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/20415927 |
| Date | 01 August 2022 |
| Creators | Suman Chakraborty (13184898) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/INTERFACE_PHASE_CHANGE_AND_MOLECULAR_TRANSPORT_IN_SUB_TRANS_AND_SUPERCRITICAL_REGIMES_FOR_N-ALKANE_NITROGEN_MIXTURES/20415927 |
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