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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
i'm a aerospace/rocket nut for 40 years and my father-in-law has worked on some amazing projects while inthe AF and at Lockheed Martin (MMU program for one)
If you have a link to your brothers work i'd love to read it and i'm sure my FIL would too.
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Hey DB,
Here's what my brother had to say when I asked about his paper.......
I think what you're referring to is probably my Ph.D. work. I did a study of the effects of bouyancy on turbulent jet flames in a crossflow. That's when you have a fuel stream runninhg out into a stream of air that blows it to one side. Most people assume that bouyancy is negligible in such a flame but before my work, there was no rigorous analysis of when such an assumption is appropriate. My dissertation looked at developing a way to determine when this effect is significant enough to be considered and provide a way for others to make that decision.
The reason most people neglect this is because it's a giant pain in the ass to deal with from a mathematical standpoint. If I'd known how hard it would be to find a parameter to quantify the effect, let alone determine what value the parameter should have, I'd have chosen something else to work on. I pulled it off though. Was a neat bit of work.
http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl/hand...1514?show=full
http://www.ae.utexas.edu/research/FloImLab/jficf.php
Hope you find it interesting.
Cheers,
PKFFW
P.S: The bold emphasis is mine because I thought that remark was very pertinant to the recent discussion. re: fitting data to the theory, problems with modelling etc.