The effect of ambient conditions on the emissions of an idling gas turbine

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76659/1/AIAA-1978-3-860.pd

The effect of local parameters on gas turbine emissions

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77048/1/AIAA-1980-1290-544.pd

Experimental study of the mixing of reactive gases at their interface behind a shock wave

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77082/1/AIAA-1998-2507-235.pd

Experiments on shock induced combustion of isolated regions of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77323/1/AIAA-1999-821-387.pd

Analysis of oblique shock-detonation wave interactions in the supersonic flow of a combustible medium

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77085/1/AIAA-1988-441-275.pd

The interaction of an incident shock wave with liquid fuel drops

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76252/1/AIAA-1971-206-999.pd

Mechanism of ignition in shock wave interactions with reactive liquid droplets

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76975/1/AIAA-1975-163-254.pd

Research on dust explosions at the University of Michigan

Dust explosion research carried out at the University of Michigan during the last two decades has been summarized. Significant results are presented on the smoldering combustion of dust heaps, turbulent combustion of premixed dust clouds, entrainment and combustion of layered dust, and on shock wave ignition of particles and shock wave initiated detonative combustion. Also, information on the detonation of hybrid mixtures and gaseous mixtures containing nonreactive particles is given.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/29913/1/0000270.pd

Transition from deflagration to detonation in layered dust explosions

Dust layers on the bottom of mine tunnels, on factory floors, or on the floors of grain elevator passages are the most frequent cause of highly destructive dust explosions. Typically, such layered dust explosions involve a high velocity, accelerating, turbulent flame which is fed by the dust layer and results in high destructive static and dynamic pressures. In some cases transition to detonation has been observed, and such explosions are the most destructive. Scientific studies of such layered dust explosions, conducted at the University of Michigan, are discussed.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/38590/1/680140408_ftp.pd

Mechanisms of detonation transmission in layered H 2 -O 2 mixtures

When a plane detonation propagating through an explosive comes into contact with a bounding explosive, different types of diffraction patterns, which may result in the transmission of a detonation into the bounding mixture, are observed. The nature of these diffraction patterns and the mode of detonation transmission depend on the properties of the primary and bounding explosives. An experimental and analytical study of such diffractions, which are fundamental to many explosive applications, has been conducted in a two channel shock tube, using H 2 -O 2 mixtures of different equivalence ratios as the primary and bounding or secondary explosive. The combination of mixtures was varied from rich primary / lean secondary to lean primary / rich secondary since the nature of the diffraction was found to depend on whether the Chapman-Jouguet velocity of the primary mixture, D p , was greater than or less than that of the secondary mixture, D s . Schlieren framing photographs of the different diffraction patterns were obtained and used to measure shock and oblique detonation wave angles and velocities for the different diffraction patterns, and these were compared with the results of a steady-state shock-polar solution of the diffraction problem. Two basic types of diffraction and modes of detonation reinitiation were observed. When D p > D s , an oblique shock connecting the primary detonation to an oblique detonation in the secondary mixture was observed. With D p D s . When D p > D s , the primary wave acts like a wedge moving into the secondary mixture with velocity D p after steady state has been reached, a configuration which also arises in oblique-detonation ramjets and hypervelocity drivers.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46110/1/193_2005_Article_BF01419004.pd