非平衡等离子体对甲烷–氧扩散火焰影响的实验研究

利用自主设计的等离子喷注器采用介质阻挡放电方式产生非平衡等离子体,首先利用纹影技术、热电偶、单点红外测温等多种诊断方法实验研究了纯氧放电等离子体的电学特性、热效应及气动效应,然后通过可见光和化学自发辐射成像技术获得了火焰形态及特征参数,详细分析了等离子体对甲烷–纯氧扩散火焰形态和释热的影响,并计算了放电功率及费效比.结果表明,燃烧导致放电电流显著增大,其中电压幅值与氧气流速对放电电流大小的影响规律正好相反;与空气等离子体相比,相同流量与电压条件下氧等离子体放电功率较高,但其发光强度明显较弱;氧等离子体热效应微弱,对燃烧的影响可以忽略,放电反应中释热过程主要由含氧组分决定;放电产生了具有3个速度分量的诱导射流,增大了氧射流角,且电压越大越显著.等离子体主要通过气动效应改变了燃料与氧化剂的掺混,使得一定条件下火焰变得更稳定、释热更强.在所研究的范围内等离子体作用的费效比最低仅为2.2%,大流量、小混合比更有利.     

双环状电极大气压等离子体射流的时间分辨诊断

大气压等离子体射流在众多领域中发挥着至关重要的作用,其中,拥有双环状电极结构的射流装置表现十分突出,此类装置具有结构简单、放电稳定的优势,并且产生的射流长度较长、温度较低.本工作利用ICCD相机采集技术,对高频高压交流电源驱动的双环状电极等离子体射流进行了纳秒级时间分辨诊断.研究发现,在一个完整的放电周期内,存在两个明显的放电阶段,分别位于外加电压的正、负半周期的峰值附近,并且在正半周期的放电阶段中,亮度、射流长度、放电发展速度均明显强于负半周期,值得注意的是,仅在负半周期的放电阶段中,才能观察到等离子体离开管口自主向前传播的现象.本工作对于了解等离子体动力学过程,揭示等离子体的行为规律及优化等离子体设备等诸多方面有积极地推动作用.     

等离子体激励器诱导射流的湍流特性研究

为了进一步掌握等离子体流动控制机理, 完善等离子体激励器数学模型, 提升等离子体激励器扰动能力, 采用粒子图像测速技术, 在静止空气下开展了介质阻挡放电等离子体激励器诱导射流特性研究. 实验时, 将非对称布局激励器布置在平板模型上, 随后将带有激励器的模型放置在有机玻璃箱内, 从而避免环境气流对测试结果的影响. 基于激励器诱导流场, 分析了激励电压对诱导射流特性的影响, 揭示了较高电压下诱导射流近壁区的拟序结构, 获得了卷起涡、二次涡等拟序结构的演化发展过程, 计算了卷起涡脱落频率, 阐述了卷起涡与启动涡的区别, 初步探索了卷起涡的耗散机制. 结果表明: (1)层流射流不能完全概括等离子体诱导射流特性, 激励电压是影响射流特性的重要参数. 当电压较低时, 诱导射流为层流射流; 当电压较高时, 诱导射流的雷诺数提高, 射流剪切层不稳定, 层流射流逐渐发展为湍流射流. (2)等离子体诱导湍流射流包含着卷起涡、二次涡等拟序结构; 在固定电压下, 这些涡结构存在恒定的卷起频率. (3)当激励电压较高时, 流动不稳定使得卷起涡发生了拉伸、变形, 引起了流场湍动能增大, 从而加速了卷起涡的耗散. 研究结果为全面认识激励器射流特性, 进一步挖掘激励器卷吸掺混能力, 提升激励器控制能力积累基础.      

等离子射流与渐扩边界中液体工质相互作用特性的模拟实验

为了探索整装式液体工质电热化学炮中药室边界形状对燃烧控制的影响,采用数字高速录像系统对等离子体射流在液体工质中的扩展过程进行了测试,研究了不同放电电压、不同喷嘴直径、不同渐扩边界结构下等离子射流与液体工质的相互作用特性.获得了等离子射流在液体工质中扩展形态的时间序列图,处理出不同工况下Taylor空腔扩展的轴向位移与时...     

等离子体激励气动力学探索与展望

等离子体激励气动力学是研究等离子体激励与流动相互作用下, 绕流物体受力和流动特性以及管道内部流动规律的科学, 属于空气动力学、气体动力学与等离子体动力学交叉前沿领域. 等离子体激励是等离子体在电磁场力作用下运动或气体放电产生的压力、温度、物性变化, 对气流施加的一种可控扰动. 局域、非定常等离子体激励作用下, 气流运动状态会发生显著变化, 进而实现气动性能的提升. 国际上对介质阻挡放电等离子体激励、等离子体合成射流激励及其调控附面层、分离流动、含激波流动等开展了大量研究. 等离子体激励调控气流呈现显著的频率耦合效应, 等离子体冲击流动控制是提升调控效果的重要途径. 发展高效能等离子体激励方法, 通过等离子体激励与气流耦合, 激发和利用气流不稳定性, 揭示耦合机理、提升调控效果, 是等离子体激励气动力学未来的发展方向.      

等离子体激励器控制圆柱绕流的实验研究

为了发展新型移动附面层控制技术,提升流动控制效率,采用粒子图像测速技术,开展了基于对称布局等离子体气动激励的圆柱绕流控制研究,获得了静止空气下,对称布局激励器诱导流场的演化过程,评估了来流条件下等离子体控制效果,通过等离子体诱导涡实现了虚拟移动附面层控制,分析了诱导涡随时间演化的过程,揭示了圆柱绕流等离子体控制机理.结果表明:(1)在静止空气下,对称布局激励器在刚启动瞬间,会在暴露电极两侧诱导产生一对旋转方向相反的启动涡;随着时间的推移,启动涡逐渐向远离壁面的方向运动;随后,激励器在暴露电极两侧产生了两股速度近似相等,方向相反的诱导射流,诱导射流在柯恩达效应的影响下,朝壁面方向发展.(2)当激励电压峰峰值为19.6 kV,激励频率3kHz时,施加等离子体气动激励后,圆柱脱落涡得到了较好抑制,圆柱阻力系数减小了21.8％;(3)在来流作用下,对称布局激励器在靠近来流一侧,诱导产生了较为稳定的涡结构.诱导涡通过旋转、运动,促进了壁面附近低能气流与主流之间的掺混,抑制了圆柱绕流流场分离,实现了"虚拟移动附面层控制"效果.与传统移动附面层控制技术相比,基于等离子体气动激励的新型移动附面层控制技术不需要复杂、笨重的机构,不会带来额外的阻力,具有潜在的应用前景.      

等离子体激励器诱导射流的湍流特性研究

为了进一步掌握等离子体流动控制机理,完善等离子体激励器数学模型,提升等离子体激励器扰动能力,采用粒子图像测速技术,在静止空气下开展了介质阻挡放电等离子体激励器诱导射流特性研究.实验时,将非对称布局激励器布置在平板模型上,随后将带有激励器的模型放置在有机玻璃箱内,从而避免环境气流对测试结果的影响.基于激励器诱导流场,分析了激励电压对诱导射流特性的影响,揭示了较高电压下诱导射流近壁区的拟序结构,获得了卷起涡、二次涡等拟序结构的演化发展过程,计算了卷起涡脱落频率,阐述了卷起涡与启动涡的区别,初步探索了卷起涡的耗散机制.结果表明:(1)层流射流不能完全概括等离子体诱导射流特性,激励电压是影响射流特性的重要参数.当电压较低时,诱导射流为层流射流;当电压较高时,诱导射流的雷诺数提高,射流剪切层不稳定,层流射流逐渐发展为湍流射流.(2)等离子体诱导湍流射流包含着卷起涡、二次涡等拟序结构;在固定电压下,这些涡结构存在恒定的卷起频率.(3)当激励电压较高时,流动不稳定使得卷起涡发生了拉伸、变形,引起了流场湍动能增大,从而加速了卷起涡的耗散.研究结果为全面认识激励器射流特性,进一步挖掘激励器卷吸掺混能力,提升激励器控制能力积累基础.     

超高速碰撞太阳电池阵诱发放电效应的实验研究

随着空间碎片的日益增多,在轨运行航天器的高压太阳电池阵受到空间碎片撞击的影响需要得到评估。通过二级轻气炮加载弹丸,应用Langmuir三探针和电流、电压探针对空间用硅太阳电池阵在不同碰撞速度下产生的放电效应进行了实验研究。结果表明,空间碎片撞击太阳电池阵会诱发产生放电现象,撞击过程产生的高浓度等离子体是放电现象产生的诱因,且碰撞速度越大,对太阳电池阵产生的损伤越严重。     

机翼尺度效应对等离子体分离流动控制特性的影响

等离子体流动控制技术是一种以等离子体气动激励为控制手段的主动流动控制技术. 为了进一步提高等离子体激励器可控机翼尺度, 以超临界机翼SC(2)-0714大迎角分离流为研究对象, 以对称布局介质阻挡放电等离子体为控制方式, 以测力、粒子图像测速仪为研究手段, 从等离子体激励器特性研究出发, 深入开展了机翼尺度效应对等离子体控制的影响研究, 提出了适用于分离流控制的能效比系数, 探索了分离流等离子体控制机理, 掌握了机翼尺度对分离流控制的影响规律. 结果表明: (1)随着机翼尺度的增大, 布置到机翼上的激励器电极长度会相应增加; 在本文的参数研究范围内, 激励器的平均消耗功率不会随电极长度的增加而线性增大; 当电极长度达到一定阈值时, 激励器的平均消耗功率趋于定值; (2)在固定雷诺数的情况下, 随着机翼尺度的增大, 等离子体的控制效果并未降低, 激励器能效比系数提高; (3)等离子体在主流区诱导的大尺度展向涡与在壁面附近产生的一系列拟序结构成为分离流控制的关键. 研究结果为实现真实飞机的等离子体分离流控制, 推动等离子体流动控制技术工程化应用提供了技术支撑.      

螺旋波等离子体放电特性研究进展

螺旋波等离子体是目前低温等离子体产生密度最高的等离子体源之一,在材料处理、薄膜沉积、宇航推进、磁约束聚变以及基础等离子体物理研究等领域都有很大的应用潜力.近年来国内外研究者普遍关注这种高密度等离子体源,一方面人们对螺旋波等离子体的放电理论缺乏深入的认识,对等离子体激发和传播过程中能量的吸收存在多种假设,比较认可的是螺旋波等离子体通过螺旋波与TG波耦合效应实现能量沉积;另一方面,螺旋波等离子体放电过程中会表现出许多独特的现象,如低场峰、模式跃迁、无电流双层结构等,无法给出统一的解释,对这些放电特性的研究无疑有助于加深对螺旋波等离子体放电机制的理解.文章从放电机制和放电特性两方面出发回顾了近15年来螺旋波等离子体基础研究进展,总结了螺旋波等离子体放电过程中的低场峰现象、模式跃迁和无电流双层现象等研究结果.围绕螺旋波等离子体放电特性研究,展望了未来的研究重点,为理解螺旋波等离子体能量耦合机制,实现工业应用提供支撑.     

Characteristics of flow from an oxy-fuel burner with separated jets: influence of jet injection angle

This paper presents an experimental study of flow development and structure on a separated jet burner in reacting and non-reacting flows. Effects of deflection jets in an aligned configuration of three round jets are emphasized. The idea is based on the confinement of a central jet of fuel by two side jets of oxygen to improve mixing, to control flame stability, and to reduce pollutant emissions. The fields of mean velocity and fluctuation intensity were measured using Particle Image Velocimetry. The deflection of jets has a considerable effect on the dynamic behavior and on the flame characteristics. Results showed that the deflection of jets favors mixing and accelerates merging and combining of jets to a single one. Measurements in reacting flow showed a high influence of combustion on dynamic fields. Compared to non-reactive case, in combustion, larger radial expansion and higher velocity were observed, particularly, above the stabilization point of the flame.     

Leading-Edge Reaction Zones in Lifted-Jet Gas and Spray Flames

An investigation of the leading edge characteristics in lifted turbulent methane-air (gaseous) and ethanol-air (spray) diffusion flames is presented. Both combustion systems consist of a central nonpremixed fuel jet surrounded by low-speed air co-flow. Non-intrusive laser-based diagnostic techniques have been applied to each system to provide information regarding the behavior of the combustion structures and turbulent flow field in the regions of flame stabilization. Simultaneous sequential CH-PLIF/particle image velocimetry and CH-PLIF/Rayleigh scattering measurements are presented for the lifted gaseous flame. The CH-PLIF data for the lifted gas flame reveals the role that ``leading-edge' combustion plays as the stabilization mechanism in gaseous diffusion flames. This phenomenon, characterized by a fuel-lean premixed flame branch protruding radially outward at the flame base, permits partially premixed flame propagation against the incoming flow field. In contrast, the leading edge of the ethanol spray flame, examined using single-shot OH-PLIF imaging and smoke-based flow visualization, does not exhibit the same variety of leading-edge combustion structure, but instead develops a dual reaction zone structure as the liftoff height increases. This dual structure is a result of the partial evaporation (hence partial premixing) of the polydisperse spray and the enhanced rate of air entrainment with increased liftoff height (due to co-flow). The flame stabilizes in a region of the spray, near the edge, occupied by small fuel droplets and characterized by intense mixing due to the presence of turbulent structures. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Flame Structure and Propagation in Turbulent Flame-Droplet Interaction: A Direct Numerical Simulation Analysis

Three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) in canonical configuration have been employed to study the combustion of mono-disperse droplet-mist under turbulent flow conditions. A parametric study has been performed for a range of values of droplet equivalence ratio ?_d, droplet diameter a_d and root-mean-square value of turbulent velocity u^′. The fuel is supplied entirely in liquid phase such that the evaporation of the droplets gives rise to gaseous fuel which then facilitates flame propagation into the droplet-mist. The combustion process in gaseous phase takes place predominantly in fuel-lean mode even for ?_d>1. The probability of finding fuel-lean mixture increases with increasing initial droplet diameter because of slower evaporation of larger droplets. The chemical reaction is found to take place under both premixed and non-premixed modes of combustion: the premixed mode ocurring mainly under fuel-lean conditions and the non-premixed mode under stoichiometric or fuel-rich conditions. The prevalence of premixed combustion was seen to decrease with increasing droplet size. Furthermore, droplet-fuelled turbulent flames have been found to be thicker than the corresponding turbulent stoichiometric premixed flames and this thickening increases with increasing droplet diameter. The flame thickening in droplet cases has been explained in terms of normal strain rate induced by fluid motion and due to flame normal propagation arising from different components of displacement speed. The statistical behaviours of the effective normal strain rate and flame stretching have been analysed in detail and detailed physical explanations have been provided for the observed behaviour. It has been found that the droplet cases show higher probability of finding positive effective normal strain rate (i.e. combined contribution of fluid motion and flame propagation), and negative values of stretch rate than in the stoichiometric premixed flame under similar flow conditions, which are responsible for higher flame thickness and smaller flame area generation in droplet cases.     

Central recirculation zone analysis in an unconfined tangential swirl burner with varying degrees of premixing

Swirl-stabilised combustion is one of the most widely used techniques for flame stabilisation, uses ranging from gas turbine combustors to pulverised coal-fired power stations. In gas turbines, lean premixed systems are of especial importance, giving the ability to produce low NOx systems coupled with wide stability limits. The common element is the swirl burner, which depends on the generation of an aerodynamically formed central recirculation zone (CRZ) and which serves to recycle heat and active chemical species to the root of the flame as well as providing low-velocity regions where the flame speed can match the local flow velocity. Enhanced mixing in and around the CRZ is another beneficial feature. The structure of the CRZ and hence that of the associated flames, stabilisation and mixing processes have shown to be extremely complex, three-dimensional and time dependent. The characteristics of the CRZ depend very strongly on the level of swirl (swirl number), burner configuration, type of flow expansion, Reynolds number (i.e. flowrate) and equivalence ratio. Although numerical methods have had some success when compared to experimental results, the models still have difficulties at medium to high swirl levels, with complex geometries and varied equivalence ratios. This study thus focuses on experimental results obtained to characterise the CRZ formed under varied combustion conditions with different geometries and some variation of swirl number in a generic swirl burner. CRZ behaviour has similarities to the equivalent isothermal state, but is strongly dependent on equivalence ratio, with interesting effects occurring with a high-velocity fuel injector. Partial premixing and combustion cause more substantive changes to the CRZ than pure diffusive combustion.     

On the stabilization of flames on multijet industrial burners

Measurements of velocity and temperature characteristics, together with the analysis of the process of flame extinction, are reported for a range of high-intensity flames stabilized on a model of an industrial oxyfuel burner installed in a divergent quarl. The burner consists of a central axisymmetric jet surrounded by 16 circular jets, simulating the injection of oxygen in practical burners. A laser-Doppler velocimeter was used to measure density-weighted velocity characteristics, and bare-wire thermocouples were used to measure near unweighted temperature characteristics. Experiments were carried out to improve knowledge of the flow in the near field of multijet burner heads, which is essential to design further modifications in their geometry and to predict their effects. Isothermal and combusting flows are studied; for the latter, the experiments quantify the effect of quarl geometry, fuel-to-air ratio, swirl number, and central-to-peripheral jet velocity ration on the flame characteristics.

The results show that flame stabilization occurs in the vicinity of the quarl and is affected by its geometry owing to changes in the rate of entrainment of cold air. Increasing the swirl level and decreasing the peripheral airflow improves flame stability by promoting the mixing of fuel and air along the annular stabilization region. Turbulence measurements show common features with and without combustion and suggest the absence of large-scale mixing in the present flames. Although the laminar flamelet concept may represent most of the features of the flames investigated, the local quenching of burning flamelets is shown to preclude the internal ignition of flame gases in a way that influences the process of flame stabilization.     

Effects of Unmixedness on Combustion Instabilities in a Lean-Premixed Gas Turbine Combustor

The present experimental study focuses on the effects of the degree of premixing and swirl strength on combustion instabilities occurring in a lean premixed gas turbine combustor burning natural gas and air. The combustor operated at pressurized conditions with heated air. Major measurements for the investigation of premixed combustion dynamics include pressure fluctuations, flame emissions in reacting flow, and acetone fluorescence in non-reacting flow to assess the degree of premixing between fuel and air. The acetone PLIF results revealed that the degree of premixing improves as mixing time increases. The first and second longitudinal acoustic modes were the dominant excited modes for most cases of interest. Combustion at a lean premixed condition becomes more susceptible to instabilities as the degree of premixing becomes poor, and self-excited pressure oscillations are obviously present under a fully premixed condition, even without equivalence ratio fluctuations in space. For incomplete premixing cases, local equivalence ratio fluctuations caused by poor premixing may initiate instabilities since reaction rate is sensitive to equivalence ratio fluctuations at lean conditions. Phase resolved chemiluminescence measurements show that pressure oscillations are strongly coupled with variations in flame structures.     

Subgrid Linear Eddy Mixing and Combustion Modelling of a Turbulent Nonpremixed Piloted Jet Flame

A linear eddy model for subgrid mixing and combustion has been coupled to a large eddy simulation of the turbulent nonpremixed piloted jet flame (Sandia Flame D). For the combustion reaction, simplified, single-step, irreversible, Arrhenius kinetics are used. The large scale and the subgrid structure of the flow are compared with experimental observations and, where appropriate, with a flamelet model of the flame. The main objective of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of the LES-LEM approach for determining the structure of the subgrid scalar dissipation rate and the turbulence-chemistry interactions. The results for the large- and subgrid-scale structure of the flow show a reasonable agreement with the experimental observations.     

Effects of Small- and Large-Scale Structures in a Piloted Jet Diffusion Flame

Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA) and Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) measurements have been performed in a turbulent nonpremixed jet flame. One of the features of this configuration is a central co-axial fuel jet surrounded by a turbulent annular air flow. The whole is placed within a low-speed coflowing air stream. This three-flow system with turbulent primary air differs from flow systems used for nonpremixed jet flames reported in the literature and is very useful for obtaining information on the mixing process between fuel and primary air. Next to the characterization of the velocity field, special attention has been paid to the conditional seeding of the central fuel jet and of the annular air flow. Together with visualizations of the OH radical, an important combustion intermediate which is formed during combustion, and the NO radical, which is seeded to the central jet flow, the resulting statistics reveal the properties of small- and large-scale structures in the flame.