Browsing Theses by Subject "combustion"
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Additive Manufacturing and Combustion of Graphene Based Nanothermite Aerogels
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)Nanothermites are a key material for engineering applications related to energy and heat release, such as welding, heating, and pyrotechnics. The ability to additively manufacture energetic nanothermite structures with ... -
Formation and Removal of SOx and NOx in Pressurized Oxy-fuel Coal Combustion
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-19)Growing concerns over greenhouse gas emissions have driven extensive research in carbon capture, storage and sequestration. Oxy-fuel combustion is a promising technology in CO2 capture, as the combustion products consists ... -
Imaging of Thermal Propagation in Combustion of Al/CuO Core-Shell Nanothermite Film
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-22)Nanoenergetics have been a topic of great discussion over the past few decades due to their extraordinary combustive properties. In particular, heavy investment has been put into researching nanothermites due to the low ... -
Investigation of Turbulent Spray Flames Using the Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model for gaseous combustion. This work aims at extending the CSE formulation to address turbulent spray combustion. The Eulerian-Lagrangian method is ... -
Simulation of Soot Formation in Turbulent Diffusion Flames Using Conditional Source-term Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) is a turbulent combustion model which uses the conditional averages of scalars for calculating the mean reaction source term in the species transport equation. CSE has been shown ... -
Tailoring the Ignition and Reaction Properties of Cu2O Thermite Nanolaminates
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Thermites are a class of energetic material that produce heat through an exothermic reaction, making them useful for welding, metal refining, and propulsion applications. Compared to traditional micron-scale thermite ... -
Utilization of Predictive Analytics & Constrained Metaheuristics to Achieve Optimal Operation of a Liquid-fueled Industrial Process Heater
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-11)The operation of industrial combustion devices to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions, is necessary in many respects. Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and the present volatility of the price of ...