Short-duration wind tunnel with combined heating and stabilization of parameters

A high-enthalpy short-duration wind tunnel (hotshot wind tunnel) is designed for different operation modes ensured by combining various methods of test gas heating [by an electric arc, chemical energy, adiabatic compression, and heating in an external source of heat (with respect to the settling chamber)]. The wind tunnel is designed for the following ranges of parameters: stagnation pressure p ₀ = 1–200 MPa, stagnation temperature T ₀ = 600–4000 K, Mach number M = 4–20, and test time t < 1 s. The wind tunnel can operate both in the regime of the classical hotshot facility with decreasing parameters of the test gas and in the regime with stabilization of parameters owing to synchronized motion of the opposite pistons of the pressure multiplier toward each other.     

跨超声速风洞扩散段流动分离控制设计参数研究

为抑制跨超声速风洞扩散段的分离,提出了一种较为完备的设计方法。由于影响扩散段性能的参数较多,完全通过试验方法进行设计的成本过高,该方法通过数值模拟,结合适当的边界条件,详细描述了扩散段角度、分流锥角度与长度、孔板开孔率对扩散段性能的影响;从数值模拟的结果可以看出,孔板开孔率和扩开角对扩散段性能有显著影响,通过比较得出较为合理的参数匹配,提高了扩散段的防分离性能,并改善了出口气流质量。数值结果与试验结果结论一致,表明本文所用的方法用于扩散段气动设计是可行的,为数值模拟方法应用于风洞部段气动设计创造了一定的条件。     

非高斯风压的极值计算方法

以经典极值理论为基础,发展了一种基于单个标准样本的非高斯风压的极值计算方法. 首先介绍了风洞试验及试验数据处理的基本概况;然后在阐述经典Gumbel极值理论的基础上,根据观察极值的相互独立性推导了短时距下极值分布参数和长时距下极值分布参数的关系式,给出了一种由短时距样本推算长时距下的极值估算方法; 最后基于风洞试验数据,将常用极值估算方法(峰值因子法、改进峰值因子法和Sadek-Simiu法)和该方法的计算结果进行了比较. 得到如下结论:将一个标准长度的非高斯风压时程数据划分成若干等长的子段,可以通过子段的极值分布规律准确地估算出母段的极值期望值,子段的最佳分段长度可以通过自相关分析给出;与常用的极值估算方法相比,该方法更能准确估计非高斯风压的极值.      

Gas dynamics of a low-pressure chamber in a high-enthalpy short-duration wind tunnel

Gas dynamics of a low-pressure chamber in a double-chamber hotshot wind tunnel is considered. The time needed to fill the second chamber is in good agreement with the value obtained by examining the quasi-steady process of emptying and filling of the high-pressure and low-pressure chambers. The transitional process is strongly affected by wave processes in the channel between the chambers. By changing the place of the throttling grid in this channel, one can change the time of filling of the second chamber (decrease it severalfold). The examined schemes of air input into the second chamber ensure its complete deceleration. The Mach number at the exit of the second chamber (in the wind-tunnel nozzle throat) is almost constant over the cross section and close to unity.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 29–43, January–February, 2005.     

高温燃气喷流/主流相互干扰实验研究

报道关于高温燃气自由喷流(热喷流)、燃气喷流/主流干扰流对气动热环境影响的实验研究结果. 其意义在于: 抽象出高超声速飞行器实际飞行时燃气喷流及其干扰流的物理模型, 为高超声速飞行器防热需求提供实验依据. 实验主流由脉冲风洞提供,燃气喷流用氢氧燃烧驱动路德维希管的方式产生. 利用脉冲风洞驱动段压力信号自动控制热气源的产生以保证风洞主流与燃气喷流同步, 利用氢气、氮气和氧气的不同比例实现燃气喷流的热力学相似. 实验技术上完成了高温燃气喷流系统的参数采集与系统状态标定; 实验内容上开展了压缩拐角平板模型的气动热实验研究, 通过实验比较了只有主流流场、只有热喷流流场和既有主流流场又有热喷流流场(即干扰流场)3种工况的热流分布. 实验研究发现,热喷流/主流相互干扰会对压缩拐角平板上某一范围内的气动热环境造成显著影响, 热流峰值较无喷流流场高出一个量级.      

Lower limit for the velocity fluctuation level in wind tunnels

The origins of the velocity fluctuations in the test section of a wind tunnel are discussed. Vorticity (turbulence converted from upstream) can be reduced by a careful design of the settling chamber to almost any desired level. The amplitudes of pressure waves propagating round the tunnel circuit can also be reduced considerably. The lowest levels of the velocity fluctuations in wind tunnels are determined by those pressure fields that are created on the outer boundaries of the test section. These boundaries are the free shear layers in the case of free jet facilities and the turbulent boundary layers in the case of closed wall test sections. The lower limit for the rms velocity level is achieved in many open jet wind tunnels (typically 0.15%). The corresponding limit for low speed tunnels with closed test sections is smaller by a factor of at least twenty but not yet known.     

激波风洞高低压段钢膜片破裂特性研究

激波风洞是用于高超声速飞行器气动外形设计和优化的常用地面试验装置,基于爆轰驱动技术,激波风洞能够在短时间(毫秒级)内产生高温、高压的驱动气体来模拟高超声速试验气流.主膜片位于激波风洞中的爆轰驱动段和激波管段之间,试验时膜片在爆轰脉冲压力下打开,膜片的打开状态和脱落情况对激波风洞气流品质有很大的影响. 同时,膜片也是形成激波的先决条件. 传统的风洞采用铝质膜片进行试验,在激波风洞中需要承压能力更强的膜片, 此时铝质膜片不再适用, 需要采用钢质膜片.因此, 对激波风洞中的钢膜片破裂特性进行研究很有必要.将数值计算结果与试验结果进行比较, 发现数值计算结果与试验结果吻合得比较理想,计算结果具有可靠性. 基于膜片的应力-应变模型, 建立了膜片打开的动力学模型,根据CJ爆轰理论, 采用有限元软件计算模拟了膜片破裂的过程,分析总结了膜片破裂的机制和力学特性规律.采用控制变量法对不同厚度和凹槽长度的膜片进行分析研究,得到了膜片破膜压力和有效破膜时间的变化规律. 在激波风洞试验中,根据膜片总破膜时间设计了适用于JF-12复现风洞的膜片参数.      

顶部重力加砂颗粒速度场及浓度场的实验研究

对砂尘环境试验设备顶部重力加砂气固两相流的颗粒速度场及浓度场进行了研究．利用中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所室内风沙环境风洞，采用激光数字式粒子成像测速技术(DPIV)，得到顺风向距加砂口不同水平距离截面位置颗粒相速度及空间分布规律．表明在顺风向距加砂口水平距离约3m左右处的位置，颗粒相速度才接近风洞风速，且粒子基本均匀扩散开，从而证明了国外砂尘实验设备的不合理性、为我国自行研制大型砂尘环境试验设备，确定加砂／尘方法及试验段参数等提供了依据．     

Aerodynamic external pressure loads on a semi-circular bluff body under wind gusts

This brief communication concerns the unsteady aerodynamic external pressure loads acting on a semi-circular bluff body lying on a floor under wind gusts and describes the theoretical model, experimental setup, and experimental results obtained. The experimental setup is based on an open circuit, closed test section, low speed wind tunnel, which includes a sinusoidal gust generating mechanism, designed and built at the Instituto de Microgravedad “Ignacio Da Riva” of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IDR/UPM). Based on the potential flow theory, a theoretical model has been proposed to analyse the problem, and experimental tests have been performed to study the unsteady aerodynamic loads on a semi-circular bluff body. By fitting the theoretical model predictions with the experimental results, influencing parameters of the unsteady aerodynamic loads are ascertained. The values of these parameters can help in clarifying the phenomenon of the external pressure loads on semi-circular bluff body under various gust frequencies. The theoretical model proposed allows the pressure variation to be split into two contributions, a quasi-steady term and an unsteady term with a simple physical meaning.     

Experimental study and numerical simulation of the characteristics of a percussive gas–solid separator

The presence of solid particles in the flow of hypersonic wind tunnels damages the appearance of the experiment models in the wind tunnel and influences the accuracy of experimental results. The design of a highly efficient gas–solid separator was therefore undertaken. Particle trajectory imaging methods were used to measure trajectories under different conditions. The flow field and particle movement characteristics for different head angles (HAs) and separation tooth angles (STAs), inlet velocities, and the exhaust gas outlet pressures in the separator, were calculated using simulations based on the discrete phase model. The particle separation efficiency, pressure loss, and flow loss resulting from different structural parameters were also studied. In line with experimental observations, the characteristic angle of particle movements in the separator and the separation efficiency of the separator were found to increase with decreasing HA and with increasing STA. Separation efficiency improves with increasing inlet velocity and with increasing negative pressure of the exhaust gas outlet; however, the corresponding pressure loss and the flow rate of the waste gas also increased.     

Evaluation of a new wind tunnel with expanding corners

A new low-speed, closed-circuit, closed-test-section wind tunnel, called BLT, has been designed and built at KTH. The turbulence intensity in the test section is <0.04%, the total pressure variation is <±0.1% and the temperature variation is <±0.07°C over the cross-sectional area. The concept of expanding corners with an expansion ratio of 1.32 first investigated by Lindgren et al. in 1998, has been implemented successfully with a two-dimensional total pressure loss coefficient of 0.047 at a chord Reynolds number of 200,000. It is comparable to or even better than the values found in most wind tunnels using nonexpanding corners. The findings in this study prove the usefulness of expanding corners to achieve a compact wind tunnel circuit design without compromising the flow quality.     

Transonic flows around an airfoil in wind tunnels with porous walls

A study is made of two-dimensional transonic flows of gas around an airfoil in the working part of a wind tunnel with porous walls. The values of the flow parameters are determined by the numerical solution of a boundary-value problem for the equation of the velocity potential; this problem simulates the gas flow around the profile in the tunnel with porous walls. The obtained results are then used to construct an asymptotic theory of the influence of the wind-tunnel height and the Mach number M of the flow in it on the characteristics of the flow around the airfoil.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 99–107, September–October, 1980.     

自由活塞激波风洞

自由活塞激波风洞是一种使用自由活塞压缩器驱动的高焓脉冲型激波风洞。这种风洞是由R J Stalker提出并在澳大利亚国立大学首先建成和逐渐发展起来的高焓实验设备。经过30多年的改进与发展,日趋完善,现已成为研究高超声速气动加热、计及真实气体效应的气体动力学现象、特别是超声速或高超声速燃氢冲压发动机(scamjet)的重要设备之一,受到国际上航空航天界的重视。本文概述了自由活塞激波风洞的发展过程,系统地阐述了这种设备的结构特点和运行原理,给出了性能参数的计算方法和算例,及其性能指标,并讨论了这类风洞的优缺点。      

SWT-120风洞稳定段的性能测量

在普通超音速风洞中,由于受到噪声干扰,很难进行有效的边界层转捩特性试验研究,针对超声速流动特点发展较低噪声风洞十分必要,而稳定段设计的好坏直接影响到下游试验段噪声水平。本文介绍一座低噪声风洞稳定段的结构和性能测量结果。先对稳定段的结构设计做了简单介绍,然后对实验结果进行分析,实验结果表明在大角度扩散段内装置孔锥,稳定段安装消音夹层和阻尼网组等部件后,气流的速度脉动和压力脉动明显降低,其中压力脉动降低一个量级,速度脉动为1%。进一步优化设计和改进工艺,速度脉动还可进一步降低。测量结果表明SWT-120稳定段的设计是成功的,对我们以后发展更高性能的静风洞有借鉴和参考价值。     

An experimental investigation of the static pressure fluctuation mechanism for porous transonic wind tunnel wall configurations

An experimental investigation of the static pressure fluctuation generation mechanism was performed for different transonic wind tunnel test section perforated wall configurations. Different hole diameters and geometrical configurations were investigated. Most tests were carried out with isolated perforations, while some were done with a three hole, 16° perforation pattern. To suppress the oscillation amplitudes generated by perforations, splitter-plates as flow conditioning devices along the perforations were implemented on a large number of perforated transonic test section wall samples. It was found that all the hole configurations tested, regardless of diameter or shape, resonate at discrete frequencies which order themselves along several modes.     

AN EXTENDED k-ε MODEL FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF WIND FLOW AROUND BUILDINGS

It is assumed in this paper that for a high Reynolds number nearly homogeneouswind flow, the Reynolds stresses are uniquely related to the mean velocity gradientsand the two independent turbulent scaling parameters k and E. By applying dimensionalanalysis and owing to the Cayley-Hamilton theorem for tensors, a new turbulenceenclosure model so-called the axtended k-ε model has been developed. The coefficientsof the model expression were detemined by the wind tunnel experimental data ofhomogeneous shear turbulent flow. The model was compared with the standard k-εmodel in in composition and the prediction of the Reynold’s normal Stresses. Using thenew model the numerical simulation of wind flow around a square cross-section tallbuilding was performed. The results show that the extended k-ε model improves theprediction of wind velocities around the building the building and wind pressures on the buildingenvelope.     

Investigation of transonic bounded gas flow past three-dimensional slender bodies

The pressure coefficient distributions induced in the process of a bounded gas flow past a schematized vehicle of the Khotol type are obtained for various transonic regimes in a wind tunnel with a perforated working section as a result of simultaneously solving the boundary-value problems for the near and far flow fields. These distributions are compared with the pressure coefficient distributions in the case of unbounded flow past the body. The additional pressure coefficient induced by the tunnel walls is calculated for subsonic flow past a vehicle in a cylindrical wind tunnel of large radius. The calculation results are consistent with the asymptotic Malmuth theory for subsonic velocities.Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 149–158, March–April, 1995.     

Thrust shock vector control of an axisymmetric conical supersonic nozzle via secondary transverse gas injection

Transverse secondary gas injection into the supersonic flow of an axisymmetric convergent–divergent nozzle is investigated to describe the effects of the fluidic thrust vectoring within the framework of a small satellite launcher. Cold-flow dry-air experiments are performed in a supersonic wind tunnel using two identical supersonic conical nozzles with the different transverse injection port positions. The complex three-dimensional flow field generated by the supersonic cross-flows in these test nozzles was examined. Valuable experimental data were confronted and compared with the results obtained from the numerical simulations. Different nozzle models are numerically simulated under experimental conditions and then further investigated to determine which parameters significantly affect thrust vectoring. Effects which characterize the nozzle and thrust vectoring performances are established. The results indicate that with moderate secondary to primary mass flow rate ratios, ranging around 5 %, it is possible to achieve pertinent vector side forces. It is also revealed that injector positioning and geometry have a strong effect on the shock vector control system and nozzle performances.     

用于低温风洞的新颖制冷方法

描述了用于低温风洞的新颖制冷系统,利用热交换器回收排气冷量预冷压缩空气,然后再用热分离器将其降至深低温作风洞气源．原理性实验结果证实新制冷方法的可行性．讨论了新制冷方法产生的有一定压力的低温空气作引射气源,引射驱动回流型风洞的特性．其制冷方法与现有低温风洞喷雾液氮制冷相比,由于仅需压缩空气而无需液氮,造价更便宜．更由于能量利用合理,效率高,因而运行成本可显著降低．     

Application of the PITM Method Using Inlet Synthetic Turbulence Generation for the Simulation of the Turbulent Flow in a Small Axisymmetric Contraction

We investigate the turbulence modeling of second moment closure used both in RANS and PITM methodologies from a fundamental point of view and its capacity to predict the flow in a low turbulence wind tunnel of small axisymmetric contraction designed by Uberoi and Wallis. This flow presents a complex phenomenon in physics of fluid turbulence. The anisotropy ratio of the turbulent stresses τ ₁₁/τ ₂₂ initially close to 1.4 returns to unity through the contraction, but surprisingly, this ratio gradually increases to its pre-contraction value in the uniform section downstream the contraction. This point constitutes the interesting paradox of the Uberoi and Wallis experiment. We perform numerical simulations of the turbulent flow in this wind tunnel using both a Reynolds stress model developed in RANS modeling and a subfilter scale stress model derived from the partially integrated transport modeling method. With the aim of reproducing the experimental grid turbulence resulting from the effects of the square-mesh biplane grid on the uniform wind tunnel stream, we develop a new analytical spectral method of generation of pseudo-random velocity fields in a cubic box. These velocity fields are then introduced in the channel using a matching numerical technique. Both RANS and PITM simulations are performed on several meshes to study the effects of the contraction on the mean velocity and turbulence. As a result, it is found that the RANS computation using the Reynolds stress model fails to reproduce the increase of anisotropy in the centerline of the channel after passing the contraction. In the contrary, the PITM simulation predicts fairly well this turbulent flow according to the experimental data, and especially, the “return to anisotropy” in the straight section of the channel downstream the contraction. This work shows that the PITM method used in conjunction with an analytical synthetic turbulence generation as inflow is well suited for simulating this flow, while allowing a drastic reduction of the computational resources.