... combustion enters via the cracks and causes cracking in the steel below the coating. For Si 3 N 4 , cracks are encouraged by the low fracture toughness of Si 3 N 4 . (iii) Repeated thermal cycles deepen and widen cracks to form islands that can be undercut, leading to island removal and rapid erosion failure...

...Craig M. Tarver; Steven K. Chidester High explosive reactions can be caused by three general energy deposition processes: impact ignition by frictional and/or shear heating; bulk thermal heating; and shock compression. The violence of the subsequent reaction varies from benign slow combustion...

...Frantisek L. Eisinger, Mem. ASME; Robert E. Sullivan, Mem. ASME Thermoacoustic combustion oscillation and vibration experienced in a gas turbine at operation is reported. The oscillation manifested itself at two distinct frequencies representing the first and second mode frequencies of the combined...

...John H. Underwood; Anthony P. Parker; Gregory N. Vigilante; Paul J. Cote Thermal damage observed at the bore of fired cannons has increased noticeably in the past decade, due to the use of higher combustion gas temperatures for improved cannon performance. Current authors and coworkers recently...

... Carlo method were found with several particle density variations, in which participating media of optical thin, medium, and thick were included. As a numerical example, the present method is applied to predict radiative heat transfer in a boiler model with nonisothermal combustion gas and carbon...