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RAP opportunity at Air Force Science and Technology Fellowship Program     AF STFP

Combustion and Spray Studies and Diagnostic Development

Location

Aerospace Systems Directorate, RQ/Turbine Engine Division

opportunity location
13.30.08.B0101 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 454337103

Advisers

name email phone
Brent Rankin brent.rankin.1@us.af.mil 937 255 9722

Description

This research addresses the physics and chemistry of processes in gas turbine combustors and augmentors as well as pulsed-detonation engines through the study of isolated and interacting droplets, sprays, jet premixed and diffusion flames, swirling flames, and bluff-body stabilized flames. Continuing work requires experimental and theoretical approaches related to the following: (1) turbulent transport, mixing, entrainment, evaporation, droplet drag, drop-spacing effects, atomization, finite-rate chemistry, flame stability, ignition, and blow-out; (2) development of laser-based diagnostic techniques to support combustion and spray experiments; and (3) studies using either time-averaged or large-scale, time-dependent simulations. Numerous well-equipped laboratories contain small- and large-scale combustion tunnels and advanced laser apparatus designed for two-dimensional imaging, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy; laser Doppler anemometry; phase Doppler particle analysis; laser-induced florescence techniques; hyperspectral absorption spectroscopy; ballistic photon imaging; and femto/picosecond experiments. Access to various combustion flow codes and the DOD ASC Major Shared Resource Center is available for theoretical studies.

 

key words
Lasers; Combustion; Sprays; Diagnostics; Gas turbine engines;

Eligibility

Citizenship:  Open to U.S. citizens
Level:  Open to Postdoctoral and Senior applicants

Stipend

Base Stipend Travel Allotment Supplementation
$95,000.00 $5,000.00

Experience Supplement:
Postdoctoral and Senior Associates will receive an appropriately higher stipend based on the number of years of experience past their PhD.

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