Shockless explosion combustion - Controlled autoignition in stratified mixtures for pressure gain combustion [original]

Shockless Explosion Combustion

Controlled Autoignition in Stratified Mixtures

for

Pressure Gain Combustion

vorgelegt von

Fatma Cansu Yücel, M.Sc.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1252-7013

von der Fakultät V – Verkehrs- und Maschinensysteme

der Technischen Universität Berlin

zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades

Doktorin der Ingenieurwissenschaften

– Dr.-Ing. –

genehmigte Dissertation

Promotionsausschuss:

Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ennes Sarradj

Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Oliver Paschereit

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rupert Klein

Prof. Ephraim Gutmark, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Prof. Dr. sc. Panagiotis Stathopoulos

Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 20.07.2021

Berlin 2021

Preface

I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to the German Science Foundation for

financing my project as a part of the “Collaborative Research Center 1029”. It has been

a great privilege to work under these conditions.

For giving me the great opportunity to be a part of his team and to be allowed to

work on such interesting projects, I would like to thank Prof. Oliver Paschereit. As

my supervisor he has been supportive throughout my graduation, which helped me

complete this work. Furthermore, I would like thank Prof. Rupert Klein as my second

supervisor, who always had an open ear for my questions and helped out in countless

discussions on research questions. Thanks also to Prof. Ephraim Gutmark and Prof.

Panagiotis Stathopoulos who have agreed on reviewing my work and also have been

providing valuable assistance to my research projects in the past years with their great

expertise on the topic of pressure gain combustion.

Next, I would like to thank my colleague Fabian Habicht with whom I have been working

very closely. I am very grateful for the successful and enjoyable collaboration and for

all his support that I received over the years. Special thanks to Joshua Gray who has

been supervising me as a graduate student and who got me interested in the topic of

pressure gain combustion. My greatest gratitude go to Prof. Neda Djordjevic and Prof.

Myles Bohon from whom I have been receiving incredible mentorship professionally as

well as personally. They kept me motivated through rough times and working with

them left a lasting effect on me which I value greatly.

I want to thank everyone from the Collaborative Research Center 1029, especially

Prof. Rudibert King and Florian Arnold. Moreover, I would like to mention the

“Integrated Research Training Group” led by Prof. Panagiotis Stathopoulos and Prof.

Neda Djordjevic and coordinated by Sonja Hoßbach for enabling me an exchange which

allowed me to spend a month at Prof. Kasahara’s Laboratory at the Nagoya University.

Thanks also to Prof. Kasahara, Prof. Matsuoka and Prof. Kawasaki for the great

insights on the topic of pressure gain combustion I have been receiving throughout my

stay in Japan.

I can not thank enough my colleagues from the Hermann-Föttinger-Institute for the

great times we shared during numerous activities; collaboration in research, traveling to

conferences, bouldering or fishing. Thanks a lot to Niclas Hanraths, Tom Tanneberger,

Richard Blümner, Eric Bach, Lisa Zander, Johann Vinkeloe, Finn Lückoff, Tim Rähse

and Mohammad Rezay Haghdoost. I also want to thank all student research assistants

Iwo Gotthans, Viktor Morell, Robert Kanisch, Friederike Großmann, Adrian Stobbe,

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Oliver Klement and Alexander Jaeschke who contributed to this work with great

enthusiasm. Thanks also to Andy Göhrs who has been supporting me regarding the

technical implementation of my projects. He always managed to find creative solutions

to bring forward ideas that seems unfeasible at first whether it comes to the SEC,

the PDC or even my UAZ Buchanka. Also many thanks to Thorsten Dessin, Robert

Bahnweg, Andrea Maneck, Heiko Stolpe, Colin Muxlhanga, Christian Menzel, Martin

Franke and Sebastian Schimek. Further, I highly appreciate all who helped me coping

with the german bureaucracy; Sandy Meinecke, Maria Lück and Steffi Stehr. Moreover,

I would like to thank Alexandra Elbakyan for disseminating knowledge without barriers

and providing invaluable access to scientific research.

And finally I would like to thank my family and friends Beyazlale Yücel, Orkun Yücel,

Sila Yücel, Jacob Kuntzsch and Valeria Netesova and of course my partner and best

friend Dirk van den Biggelaar. I am infinitely grateful to have you by my side and I

love you all from the bottom of my heart!

Berlin, 2021 Fatma Cansu Yücel

dedicated to Carolin Gries

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