Spacelab and Drop-Tower Experiments on Combustion of Methanol/Dodecanol and Ethanol/Dodecanol Mixture Droplets in Reduced Gravity

This paper describes reduced-gravity experiments on the combustion of droplets composed of metha-nol/dodecanol and ethanol/dodecanol mixtures. The experiments used the NASA Glenn Research Center 2·2 s drop tower as well as facilities in Spacelab during the USML-2 flight. In the drop-tower experiments, initial droplet diameters ranged from 0·8 mm to 1.2 mm, initial dodecanol mass fractions, Y, (in both mixtures) were 0·1, 0·25 and 0·5, and the...