NRL Multi-Phase Combustion Mechanisms and Diagnostics
NRL researches multi-phase combustion for power/energy, fire suppression, and pollution remediation using laser-based diagnostics and advanced imaging.
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Funder: NRC Research Associateship Programs
Due Dates: February 1, 2025 | May 1, 2025 | August 1, 2025 | November 1, 2025
Funding Amounts: $99,200 stipend plus $3,000 travel allowance; relocation assistance and health insurance available; typical award duration 2-3 years.
Summary: Postdoctoral fellowship supporting experimental research on multi-phase combustion phenomena using advanced laser and optical diagnostics at the Naval Research Laboratory.
Key Information: Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents with a doctoral degree earned within the last 5 years; requires contacting a research adviser prior to application.
Description
This fellowship opportunity at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) focuses on experimental investigations of multi-phase combustion phenomena, spanning fundamental chemistry to fluid flow physics. Research areas include:
- Power & Energy: Gas-phase and spray combustion in gas-turbine and diesel engines, solid-fuel combustion in rockets and ramjets.
- Fire Suppression: Study of liquid pool and spray fires, and suppression using gas, aerosol, or foam agents.
- Pollution Remediation: In-situ burning of crude oil spills and wellhead blowout combustion.
The research employs a variety of laser-based and optical diagnostic techniques to measure species concentrations, temperatures, and flow parameters. Techniques include coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy, spontaneous Raman scattering, phase Doppler anemometry (PDA), particle image velocimetry (PIV), multi-wavelength pyrometry, laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), and emission spectroscopy.
Laboratory equipment includes high-speed visible and infrared video cameras, FTIR spectrometers, Czerny-Turner and holographic spectrographs, intensified CCD (iCCD) cameras, electron-multiplied CCD (EM-CCD) cameras, and photomultiplier tube (PMT) detectors.
More information about ongoing research in the Combustion & Reacting Transport section (Code 6185) is available at https://www.nrl.navy.mil/chemistry/research/6180/6185.
