Modeling Instability in Simulated Combustors

  1. Maicke, B. A. and Majdalani, J., On the Rotational Compressible Taylor Flow in Injection-Driven Porous Chambers, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 603, May 2008, pp. 391-411.

  2. Majdalani, J. and Saad, T., The Taylor-Culick Profile with Arbitrary Headwall Injection, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 19, No. 9, September 2007, pp. 093601-10.

  3. Flandro, G. A., Fischbach, S. R. and Majdalani, J., Nonlinear Rocket Motor Stability Prediction:  Limit Amplitude, Triggering, and Mean Pressure Shift, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 19, No. 9, September 2007, pp. 094101-16.

  4. Vyas, A. B. and Majdalani, J., Asymptotic Temperature Distribution in a Simulated Combustion Chamber, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 894-898.

  5. Sams, O. C., Majdalani, J. and Saad, T., Mean Flow Approximations for Solid Rocket Motors with Tapered Walls, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 23, No. 2, March-April 2007, pp. 445-456. 

  6. Abu-Irshaid, E. M., Majdalani, J. and Casalis, G., Hydrodynamic Stability of Rockets with Headwall Injection, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 19, No. 2, February 2007, pp. 24101-11.

  7. Fischbach, S. R., Majdalani, J. and Flandro, G. A., Acoustic Instability of the Slab Rocket Motor, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 23, No. 1, January-February 2007, pp. 146-157.

  8. Majdalani, J., On Steady Rotational High Speed Flows: The Compressible Taylor-Culick Profile, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 463, No. 2077, January 2007, pp. 131-162.

  9. Majdalani, J., Fischbach, S. R. and Flandro, G. A., Improved Energy Normalization Function in Rocket Motor Stability Calculations, Journal of Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 10, No. 6, September 2006, pp. 495-500.

  10. Saad, T., Sams O. C. and Majdalani, J., Rotational Flow in Tapered Slab Rocket Motors, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2006, pp. 103601-13.

  11. Majdalani, J., Flandro, G. A. and Fischbach, S. R., Some Rotational Corrections to the Acoustic Energy Equation in Injection-driven Enclosures, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, No. 7, July 2005, pp. 0741021-20.

  12. Vyas, A. B., Majdalani, J. and Yang, V., Estimation of the Laminar Premixed Flame Temperature and Velocity in Injection-Driven Combustion Chambers, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 133, No. 6129, May 2003, pp. 371–374.

  13. Chu, W.-W., Yang, V. and Majdalani, J., Premixed Flame Response to Acoustic Waves in a Porous-Walled Chamber with Surface Mass Injection, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 133, No. 6129, May 2003, pp. 359–370.

  14. Flandro, G. A. and Majdalani, J., Aeroacoustic Instability in Rockets, AIAA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, February 2003, pp. 485–497.

  15. Majdalani, J., Physicality of Core Flow Models in Rocket Motors, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 156–159.

  16. Majdalani, J., Zhou, C. and Dawson, C. A., Two-Dimensional Viscous Flow Between Slowly Expanding or Contracting Walls with Weak Permeability, Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 35, No. 10, October 2002, pp. 1399–1403.

  17. Majdalani, J., Barron, J. T. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Inception of Turbulence in the Stokes Boundary Layer Over a Transpiring Wall, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 9, October 2002, pp. 678–684.

  18. Majdalani, J. and Flandro, G. A., The Oscillatory Pipe Flow with Arbitrary Wall Injection, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 458, No. 2022, July 2002, pp. 1621–1658.

  19. Zhou, C. and Majdalani, J., Improved Mean-Flow Solution for Slab Rocket Motors with Regressing Walls, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 18, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 703–711.

  20. Entezam, B., Van Moorhem, W. K. and Majdalani, J., Two-Dimensional Numerical Verification of the Unsteady Thermoacoustic Field Inside a Rijke-Type Pulse Combustor, Journal of Numerical Heat Transfer: A–Applications, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2002, pp. 245–262.

  21. Majdalani, J. and Rienstra, S. W., Two Asymptotic Forms of the Rotational Solution for Wave Propagation Inside Viscous Channels with Transpiring Walls, Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 55, No. 1, February 2002, pp. 141–162.

  22. Majdalani, J. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Laminar Cold-Flow Model for the Internal Gas Dynamics of a Slab Rocket Motor, Journal of Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3, May 2001, pp. 193-207.

  23. Majdalani, J., Vorticity Dynamics in Isobarically Closed Porous Channels Part I: Standard Perturbations, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 17, No. 2, March-April 2001, pp. 355-362.

  24. Majdalani, J. and Roh, T. S., Vorticity Dynamics in Isobarically Closed Porous Channels Part II: Space-Reductive Perturbations, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 17, No. 2,March-April 2001, pp. 363-370.

  25. Majdalani, J., Improved Solution for the Vortical and Acoustical Mode Coupling Inside a Two-Dimensional Cavity with Porous Walls, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 109, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 475-479.

  26. Majdalani, J., The Oscillatory Channel Flow with Arbitrary Wall Injection, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP), Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 33-61.

  27. Barron, J. T., Van Moorhem, W. K. and Majdalani, J., A Novel Investigation of the Oscillatory Field Over a Transpiring Surface, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 235, No. 2, August 2000, pp. 281-297.

  28. Majdalani, J. and Roh, T. S., The Oscillatory Channel Flow with Large Wall Injection, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 456, No. 1999, July 2000, pp. 1625-1657.

  29. Majdalani, J., Flandro, G. A. and Roh, T. S.,  Convergence of Two Flowfield Models Predicting a Destabilizing Agent in Rocket Combustion, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 16, No. 3, May-June 2000, 492-497.

  30. Majdalani, J., Vortical and Acoustical Mode Coupling Inside a Two-Dimensional Cavity with Transpiring Walls, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 106, No. 1, July 1999, pp. 46-56.

  31. Majdalani, J., Asymptotic Formulation for an Acoustically Driven Field Inside a Rectangular Cavity with a Well-Defined Convective Mean Flow Motion, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 223, No. 1, May 1999, pp. 73-95.

  32. Majdalani, J., The Boundary Layer Structure in Cylindrical Rocket Motors, AIAA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, April 1999, pp. 505-508.

  33. Majdalani, J., A Hybrid Multiple Scale Procedure for Boundary Layers Involving Several Dissimilar Scales, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP), Vol. 49, No. 6, 1998, pp. 849-868.

  34. Majdalani, J. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Improved Time-Dependent Flowfield Solution for Solid Rocket Motors, AIAA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, February 1998, pp. 241-248.

  35. Majdalani, J. and Van Moorhem, W. K., A Multiple-Scales Solution to the Acoustic Boundary Layer in Solid Rocket Motors, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 13, No. 2, March-April 1997, pp. 186-193.

  36. French, J. C. and Majdalani, J., Hydrodynamic Stability Analysis of Solid Rocket Motors with Arbitrary Grain Design, AIAA-2007-5808, 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July 8-11, 2007.

  37. Majdalani, J. and Saad, T., Energy Steepened States of the Taylor-Culick Profile, AIAA-2007-5797, 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July 8-11, 2007. Nominated for Best Solid Rockets Paper by R. Geisler.

  38. Chedevergne, F, Casalis, G, and Majdalani, J., DNS Investigation of the Taylor-Culick Flow Stability, AIAA-2007-5796, 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July 8-11, 2007.

  39. Fischbach, S. R., Flandro, G. A. and Majdalani, J., Streaming Effects in Liquid Rocket Engines with Tangential Mode Oscillations, AIAA-2007-5561, 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July 8-11, 2007.

  40. Saad, T. and Majdalani, J., The Taylor Profile in Porous Channels with Arbitrary Headwall Injection, AIAA-2007-4120, 37th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Miami, FL, June 25-28, 2007.

  41. Maicke, B. A. and Majdalani, J., The Compressible Taylor Flow in Slab Rocket Motors, AIAA-2006-4957, 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Sacramento, CA, July 9-12, 2006.

  42. Majdalani, J., The Taylor-Culick Profile with Uniform Headwall Injection, AIAA-2005-4534, 41th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, AZ, July 10-13, 2005.

  43. Abu-Irshaid, E. M., Majdalani, J. and Casalis, G., Hydrodynamic Instability of the Bidirectional Vortex, AIAA-2005-4531, 41th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, AZ, July 10-13, 2005.

  44. Fischbach, S. R., Majdalani, J., Flandro, G. A. and French, J. C., Verification and Validation of Rocket Stability Integral Transformations, AIAA-2005-4001, 41th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, AZ, July 10-13, 2005.

  45. Abu-Irshaid, E. M., Majdalani, J. and Casalis, G., Stability of Rockets with Headwall Injection, AIAA-2005-3543, 41th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, AZ, July 10-13, 2005.

  46. Majdalani, J., The Compressible Taylor-Culick Flow, AIAA-2005-3542, 41th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, AZ, July 10-13, 2005.

  47. Chu, W.-W., Yang, V., Vyas, A. B. and Majdalani, J., Diffusion Flame Structure in a Simulated Slab Rocket Motor, International Workshop on High-Energy Materials: Demilitarization and Civil Applications, Biysk Belokurikha, Russia, September 2004.

  48. Flandro, G. A., French, J. C. and Majdalani, J., Incorporation of Nonlinear Capabilities in the Standard Stability Prediction Program, AIAA-2004-4182, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  49. French, J. C., Flandro, G. A. and Majdalani, J., Improvements to the Linear Stability Prediction Program (SSP), AIAA-2004-4181, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  50. Flandro, G. A., Sims, J. D. and Majdalani, J., Nonlinear Longitudinal Mode Instability in Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine Preburners, AIAA-2004-4162, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  51. Fischbach, S. R., Majdalani J. and Flandro, G. A., Acoustic Instability of the Slab Rocket Motor, AIAA-2004-4061, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  52. Sams, O. S., Majdalani, J. and Flandro, G. A., Analytical and CFD Approximations for Tapered Slab Rocket Motors, AIAA-2004-4060, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  53. Flandro, G. A., Fischbach, S. R., Majdalani, J., and French, J. C., Nonlinear Rocket Motor Stability Prediction: Limit Amplitude, Triggering, and Mean Pressure Shift, AIAA-2004-4054, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004. 2005 AIAA Solid Rockets Best Paper

  54. Fischbach, S. R., Flandro, G. A. and Majdalani, J., Volume-to-surface Transformations of Rocket Stability Integrals, AIAA-2004-4053, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  55. Sams, O. S., Majdalani, J. and Flandro, G. A., Higher Flowfield Approximations for Solid Rocket Motors with Tapered Bores, AIAA-2004-4051, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  56. Flandro, G. A., Sims, J. D. and Majdalani, J., On Nonlinear Combustion Instability in Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines, AIAA-2004-3516, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  57. Vyas, A. B. and Majdalani, J., Rotational Axisymmetric Mean Flow for the Vortex Injection Hybrid Rocket Engine, AIAA-2004-3475, 40thAIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 11-14, 2004.

  58. Majdalani, J. and Flandro, G. A., Some Recent Developments in Rocket Core Dynamics, AIAA-2003-5112, 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL, July 20-23, 2003.

  59. Majdalani, J. and Flandro, G. A., Rocket Gas Dynamics for an Arbitrary Mean Flowfield, AIAA-2002-3891, 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, July 7-10, 2002.

  60. Chu, W.-W., Yang, V., Vyas, A. B., and Majdalani, Premixed Flame Response to Acoustic Waves in a Porous-Walled Chamber with Surface Mass Injection, AIAA-2002-3609, 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, July 7-10, 2002.

  61. Majdalani, J. and Rienstra, S. W., Fundamental Forms of the Rotational Solution for Wave Propagation Inside Porous Channels, AIAA-2002-2985, 3rd AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting, St Louis, MO, June 24-27, 2002.

  62. Muntges, D. E. and Majdalani, J., Pulsatory Channel Flow with Arbitrary Volumetric Flowrate, AIAA-2002-2856, 32nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, St Louis, MO, June 24-27, 2002.

  63. Jankowski, T. A. and Majdalani, J., Asymptotic Solutions for the Unsteady Flow of Gases in Channels with Arbitrary Wall Suction, AIAA-2002-2855, 32nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, St Louis, MO, June 24-27, 2002.

  64. Flandro, G. A. and Majdalani, J., Aeroacoustic Instability in Rockets, AIAA-2001-3868, 37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-11, 2001.

  65. Majdalani, J. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Cold-Flow Analysis of the Gas Dynamics in a Slab Rocket Motor Including Curvature Effects, AIAA-2001-3589, 37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-11, 2001.

  66. Majdalani, J., Three Laminar Solutions for Chambers with Arbitrary Sidewall Mass Addition, AIAA-2001-2994, 31st AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-14, 2001. 

  67. Majdalani, J., Entezam, B. and Van Moorhem, W. K., The Rijke Tube Revisited via Laboratory and Numerical Experiments, AIAA-2001-2961, 35th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-14, 2001.

  68. Jankowski, T. A. and Majdalani, J., General Asymptotic Solution for the Oscillatory Channel Flow with Arbitrary Suction, AIAA-2001-2789, 31st AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-14, 2001. 

  69. Zhou, C. and Majdalani, J., Large Injection and Suction Driven Channel Flows with Expanding and Contracting Walls, AIAA-2001-2713, 31st AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-14, 2001.

  70. Majdalani, J., Barron, J. T. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Experimental Classification of Turbulence in an Oscillatory Channel Flow with Transpiring Walls, ASME-FEDSM2001-18111, 2001 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 29-June 1, 2001.

  71. Majdalani, J. and Roh, T. S., The Oscillatory Channel Flow with Hard Blowing, ASME-FEDSM2001-18096, 2001 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 29-June 1, 2001.

  72. Majdalani, J., Entezam, B. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Full-Scale Numerical Model of a Rijke-Type Pulse Combustor, AIAA-2001-2121, 7th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 28-30, 2001.

  73. Zhou, C. and Majdalani, J., Improved Mean-Flow Solution for Slab Rocket Motors with Regressing Walls, AIAA-2000-3191, 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL, July 16-19, 2000.

  74. Majdalani, J. and Roh, T. S., Vorticity Dynamics in a Porous Channel of the Closed-Closed Type.  Part II.  A Space-Reductive Perturbation Technique, AIAA-99-3770, 30th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 28-July 1, 1999.

  75. Majdalani, J., Vorticity Dynamics in a Porous Channel of the Closed-Closed Type.  Part I.  A Regular Perturbation Technique, AIAA-99-3769, 30th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 28-July 1, 1999.

  76. Dauenhauer, E. C. and Majdalani, J., Unsteady Flows in a Semi-Infinite Expanding Rectangular Channel with Wall Injection, AIAA-99-3523, 30th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 28-July 1, 1999.

  77. Majdalani, J., Basic Vorticity Dynamics in a Porous Channel of the Closed-Open Type.  Part II.  A Space-Reductive Perturbation Treatment, AIAA-99-2504, 35th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 20-24, 1999. 

  78. Majdalani, J., Basic Vorticity Dynamics in a Porous Channel of the Closed-Open Type.  Part I.  A Standard Perturbation Treatment, AIAA-99-2503, 35th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 20-24, 1999. 

  79. Majdalani, J., Characterization of the Laminar Boundary Layer in Solid Rocket Motors, AIAA-98-3699, 34th AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, Cleveland, OH, July 13-15, 1998.

  80. Majdalani, J., Flandro, G. A. and Roh, T. S., Implications of Unsteady Analytical Flowfields on Rocket Combustion Stability, AIAA-98-3698, 34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cleveland, OH, July 13-15, 1998.

  81. Majdalani, J., Modeling of the Oscillatory Flowfield Between Two Parallel Plates with Sidewall Injection, AIAA-98-2977, 29th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 15-18, 1998.

  82. Barron, J. T., Van Moorhem, W. K. and Majdalani, J., Turbularization of the Stokes Layer Over a Transpiring Surface, AIAA-98-2808, 29th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 15-18, 1998.

  83. Barron, J. T., Van Moorhem, W. K. and Majdalani, J., A Novel Investigation of the Oscillatory Field Over a Transpiring Surface, AIAA-98-2694, 2nd AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 15-18, 1998.

  84. Majdalani, J., A Novel Flowfield Solution in a Rectangular Cavity Subject to Small Amplitude Oscillations, AIAA-98-2693, 2nd AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 15-18, 1998.

  85. Entezam, B., Van Moorhem, W. K. and Majdalani, J., A Novel Investigation of the Thermoacoustic Fields Inside a Rijke Tube, AIAA-98-2582, 7th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 15-18, 1998.

  86. Entezam, B., Van Moorhem, W. K. and Majdalani, J., Modeling of a Rijke-Tube Pulse Combustor Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, AIAA-97-2718, 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Seattle, WA, July 6-9, 1997.

  87. Majdalani, J. and Van Moorhem, W. K., Improved Time-Dependent Flowfield Solution for Solid Rocket Motors, AIAA 97-2717, 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Seattle, WA, July 6-9, 1997.