Combustion control, chemical sensor development

Combustion instability that leads to performance deterioration and excessive mechanical loads, which could result in reduced life and premature failure, is an important issue with modern gas turbine engines and ramjet and scramjet combustors. Various techniques of passive and active control to reduce combustion instabilities and improve performance are addressed. Since extensive, promising research is being carried out to develop sensors and actuators, these techniques can be used in practical combustors in the near future. The topics covered in Section 3 provide the required chemical, kinetic, and fluid dynamic understanding to help the designer who is involved in active feedback control for combustion systems. 

Novel ideas have been proposed in laser ablation of materials to generate nanoparticles used in nanoelectronics, production of polymer semiconductor composites for development of non-linear optics for waveguides, molecular and nanostructure self-assembly techniques, high-performance catalysts, control of nanoparticles resulted from combustion and plasma processes, and special sensors applied in chemical plants and the environment. 

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