Welcome to Microgravity and Multi-phase Combustion Laboratory- Prof. Yu Cheng Liu's research group !!!
At the Center for Combustion Energy, the research interests of our group cover a range of combustion and transdisplinary problems. Our goal is to develop useful models with rigorous experimental validations for practical applications. Specfic research topics include:
1) Novel approach for modelling transport, vaporization, and chemical kinetics of complex fuels;
2) Dynamics of partially premixed flames;
3) Single droplet and group combustion processes: ignition, hot flame and cool flame, and mode transitions;
4) Combustion processes in microgravity environments for fundamental theories and space applications;
Autoignition of isolated single droplets under microgravity
W. Zhang, H. Zhou, Y.C. Liu, "Autoignition regime boundaries for n-heptane droplets under microgravity", Microgravity Science and Technology 34 (2022) 57.
This study focuses on the underlying physics and chemistry in the proximity of boundaries that divide different autoignition regimes in the temperature–pressure (T-P) diagram. Transient one-dimensional numerical simulations of single droplet (300 K, mostly 0.75 mm in diameter) combustion un...