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Control of Mixing and Reactive Flow ProcessesThe interdisciplinary field of reactive flow control is one that holds a great deal of promise for the optimization of complex phenomena occurring in many practical systems, ranging from automobile and gas turbine engines to environmental thermal destruction systems. The fundamental underpinnings of combustion control, however, require a detailed level of understanding of complex reactive flow phenomena, and, in the case of closed-loop active control, require the ability to sense (monitor) and actuate (manipulate) flow processes in a spatially distributed manner in "near real time". Hence the ultimate growth and success of the field of reactive flow control is intimately linked: 1) to advances in the understanding, simulation, and model reduction for complex reactive flows, 2) to the development of experimental diagnostic techniques, in particular, to the development of physically robust sensors, and 3) to the development of a framework or frameworks for generation of closed loop control algorithms suitable for unsteady, nonlinear reactive flow systems. The present paper seeks to outline the potential benefits and technical challenges that exist for mixing and combustion control in fundamental as well as practical systems and to identify promising research directions that could help meet these challenges.
Document ID
19990062732
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Karagozian, A. R.
(California Univ. Los Angeles, CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Heat Transfer
Report/Patent Number
AIAA Paper 99-3572
Meeting Information
Meeting: Fluid Dynamics
Location: Norfolk, VA
Country: United States
Start Date: June 28, 1999
End Date: July 1, 1999
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASA Order H-2359
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC2-374
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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