RM不稳定过程中预混火焰界面演化及混合区增长预测

预混火焰界面的RM (Richtmyer-Meshkov)不稳定导致的界面混合区增长过程在自然界和工程实践中十分常见,但化学反应对其增长的影响机理仍不明确,反应性界面混合区增长速率的预测也未见报道, 因此,开展RM不稳定过程中火焰界面演化和混合区预测的研究十分必要.本文采用带单步化学反应的Navier-Stokes方程和高精度数值格式,研究了正弦形预混火焰界面在平面入射激波及其反射激波作用下的RM不稳定过程.结果表明, 在入射激波作用后的阶段,除RM不稳定本身导致的界面演化为"钉-帽"和"泡"形结构外,化学反应一方面以预混火焰传播的方式促进了界面中"泡"结构的增长,另一方面通过与涡结构的复杂相互作用促进了"钉-帽"结构的增长.化学反应活性越强, 火焰界面的"泡" 结构和"钉-帽"结构的增长越快.在第一次反射激波作用后的阶段,化学反应以相同的火焰传播方式对"泡"和"钉-帽"结构产生影响, 两者效应相抵,因而导致反射激波作用后的阶段中界面混合区增长不受化学反应活性的影响.根据以上分析,分别针对入射激波和第一次反射激波作用后的火焰界面混合区增长速率提出了相应的预测模型,为探索反应性RM不稳定过程的理论预测方法提供了有益参考.      

INTERFACE EVOLUTIONS AND GROWTH PREDICTIONS OF MIXING ZONE ON PREMIXED FLAME INTERFACE DURING RM INSTABILITY 1)

预混火焰界面的RM (Richtmyer-Meshkov)不稳定导致的界面混合区增长过程在自然界和工程实践中十分常见,但化学反应对其增长的影响机理仍不明确,反应性界面混合区增长速率的预测也未见报道, 因此,开展RM不稳定过程中火焰界面演化和混合区预测的研究十分必要.本文采用带单步化学反应的Navier-Stokes方程和高精度数值格式,研究了正弦形预混火焰界面在平面入射激波及其反射激波作用下的RM不稳定过程.结果表明, 在入射激波作用后的阶段,除RM不稳定本身导致的界面演化为"钉-帽"和"泡"形结构外,化学反应一方面以预混火焰传播的方式促进了界面中"泡"结构的增长,另一方面通过与涡结构的复杂相互作用促进了"钉-帽"结构的增长.化学反应活性越强, 火焰界面的"泡" 结构和"钉-帽"结构的增长越快.在第一次反射激波作用后的阶段,化学反应以相同的火焰传播方式对"泡"和"钉-帽"结构产生影响, 两者效应相抵,因而导致反射激波作用后的阶段中界面混合区增长不受化学反应活性的影响.根据以上分析,分别针对入射激波和第一次反射激波作用后的火焰界面混合区增长速率提出了相应的预测模型,为探索反应性RM不稳定过程的理论预测方法提供了有益参考.     

激波诱导火焰变形、混合和燃烧的数值研究

为了深入研究激波诱导的火焰变形以及由此带来的混合和燃烧变化特性,采用带单步化学反应的Navier-Stokes方程和高网格分辨率,对平面入射激波及其反射激波诱导球形火焰变形的现象进行了二维数值研究,计算结果与实验结果较好吻合。研究结果显示,在反射激波作用前,火焰的变形和皱褶主要受入射激波诱导等物理过程影响;而在反射激波与失稳火焰作用后,燃烧放热率、火焰有效面积和界面长度均迅速增加,控制火焰变形的机制逐渐向化学反应(燃烧)过程过渡;在失稳火焰发展的后期,增强的燃烧过程能够削弱火焰界面的皱褶,进而抑制未燃气和可燃气的混合。由此可以得出结论,激波诱导的火焰界面通过变形可促进界面两侧未燃气与可燃气的混合,进而强化燃烧过程,但燃烧的增强却反过来能抑制混合;认识两者之间的关系有助于利用或控制激波 火焰相互作用过程。     

Air／SF6界面RM不稳定性诱导的物质混合诊断

不同流体伴随激波的作用,在不同密度介质的界面处往往存在激波诱导的界面不稳定性,即RM(Richtmyer-Meshkov)不稳定性,由此不稳定诱导了物质间的相互混合。文中研究了低马赫(1.23)激波作用Air/SF6界面RM不稳定性问题。Air/SF6初始界面由厚度为1～2μm的硝化纤维薄膜相隔得到,利用阴影测试法研究了Air/SF6界面在1.23马赫数激波冲击下,界面混合宽度随时间的发展过程,以及反射激波作用后混合宽度的再增长。实验结果表明混合宽度线性发展前期与经验公式吻合较好。     

流场非均匀性对非平面激波诱导的Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性影响的数值研究

基于Navier-Stokes方程组，采用可压缩多介质黏性流动和湍流大涡模拟程序MVFT (multi-viscous-flow and turbulence)，模拟了均匀流场与初始密度呈现高斯函数分布的非均匀流场中马赫数为1.25的非平面激波加载初始扰动air/SF₆界面的Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM)不稳定性现象。数值模拟结果表明，初始流场非均匀性将会影响非平面激波诱导的RM不稳定性演化过程。反射激波加载前，非平面激波导致的界面扰动振幅随着流场非均匀性增强而增大；反射激波加载后，非均匀流场与均匀流场条件下的界面扰动振幅差异有所减小。进一步，定量分析流场中环量分布及脉动速度统计量揭示了前述规律的原因。此外，还与平面激波诱导的RM不稳定性进行了简单对比，发现由于非平面激波波阵面区域的涡量与激波冲击界面时产生的涡量的共同作用，使得非平面激波与平面激波诱导的界面失稳过程存在差异。     

反射激波冲击重气柱的RM不稳定性数值研究

数值研究了二维气柱在入射激波以及反射激波作用下的Richtmyer-Meshkov(RM)不稳定性发展规律, 采用有限体积法结合网格自 适应技术的VAS2D程序, 精确刻画激波和界面的演化. 入射平面激波的马赫数为1.2, 气柱界面内气体为六氟化硫(SF₆), 环境气体为空气, 激波管的尾端为固壁. 通过改变气柱与尾端之间的距离调节反射激波再次作用已经变形的气柱的时间, 获得不同时刻下已经变形的气柱形态、界面尺寸以及环量演化受到反射激波的影响. 结果表明, 反射激波再次作用气柱时, 气柱所处发展阶段不同, 界面演化规律以及环量随时间的变化也不相同, 反射激波与气柱相互作用过程中的涡量产生和分布与无反射情况差异较大, 揭示了不同情况下界面演化的物理机理.     

激波冲击火焰的涡量特性研究

激波冲击火焰的现象涉及一系列复杂的物理化学过程,其中涡量的生成与演化对控制火焰发展起重要作用。为系统分析激波冲击火焰过程中的涡量特性,采用二维带化学反应的Navier-Stokes方程对平面入射激波及其反射激波与球形火焰作用的现象进行了数值研究,通过引入并行计算达到高网格分辨率的要求。计算结果表明,斜压项对火焰区内涡量生成起主导作用,压缩项和耗散项在火焰膨胀阶段抑制涡量生成,此外,火焰在激波压缩阶段主要受物理过程而非化学反应过程影响。     

绕射激波和反射激波作用下N_2/SF_6界面R-M不稳定性实验研究

利用高速纹影测试实验研究低马赫数入射激波绕圆柱体后冲击N2/SF6平面界面,以及来自固壁的反射激波再冲击过程的(Richmyer--Meshkov,R--M)不稳定性特征.与平面激波作用不同的是,绕射后的激波会在界面处生成局部扰动.实验结果显示,入射激波作用下界面宽度增长缓慢,而反射激波再冲击后,局部扰动会产生大的"尖钉"和"气泡"结构;以及反射激波与边界层相互作用产生壁面涡,它们会加剧湍流混合区的增长;实验中反射激波过后混合区增长率不十分依赖于波前状态,增长规律同Mikaelian模型较吻合;来自尾部固壁的反射稀疏波会再次加剧湍流混合区的增长.     

EXPERIMENTALLY STUDY OF THE RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY AT N2/SF6 FLAT INTERFACES BY DIFFRACTED INCIDENT SHOCK WAVES AND RESHOCK

利用高速纹影测试实验研究低马赫数入射激波绕圆柱体后冲击N₂/SF₆平面界面,以及来自固壁的反射激波再冲击过程的（Richmyer-Meshkov,R-M）不稳定性特征.与平面激波作用不同的是,绕射后的激波会在界面处生成局部扰动.实验结果显示,入射激波作用下界面宽度增长缓慢,而反射激波再冲击后,局部扰动会产生大的“尖钉”和“气泡”结构;以及反射激波与边界层相互作用产生壁面涡,它们会加剧湍流混合区的增长;实验中反射激波过后混合区增长率不十分依赖于波前状态,增长规律同Mikaelian模型较吻合;来自尾部固壁的反射稀疏波会再次加剧湍流混合区的增长.     

反射激波作用下三维凹气柱界面演化的数值研究

激波与气柱相互作用是Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性研究的经典案例. 单次激波与二维气柱相互作用已得到广泛关注, 但是反射激波再次冲击气柱 (尤其是三维气柱) 的研究较少, 相关演化规律和机理尚不清楚. 反射激波再次冲击演化中的气柱界面会产生新的斜压涡量, 影响涡量的输运和分布, 从而影响界面的演化. 本文采用自主开发的HOWD (high-order WENO and double-flux methods) 程序, 研究了马赫数为1.29的平面激波冲击N激波与气柱相互作用是Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性研究的经典案例.单次激波与二维气柱相互作用已得到广泛关注,但是反射激波再次冲击气柱(尤其是三维气柱)的研究较少,相关演化规律和机理尚不清楚.反射激波再次冲击演化中的气柱界面会产生新的斜压涡量,影响涡量的输运和分布,从而影响界面的演化.本文采用自主开发的HOWD (high-order WENO and double-flux methods)程序,研究了马赫数为1.29的平面激波冲击N_2气柱(气柱外为SF_6)的演化过程,并考察了反射激波对二维和三维凹气柱界面演化的影响规律.在数值模拟中,选取了不同的反射距离(定义为气柱和反射边界的距离),得到了二维和三维凹气柱在反射激波冲击前后的完整演化图像,提取了气柱上特征点位置随时间变化的定量数据,重点分析了不同演化阶段气柱几何特征及斜压涡量分布的变化趋势.研究表明,反射距离决定着反射激波作用气柱时的激波形状和气柱形态,从而影响斜压涡量的生成和分布,进而改变气柱的不稳定性演化过程.对于三维气柱,不同高度截面上的斜压涡量分布不同,从而诱导出复杂的三维演化结构.     

A three-dimensional numerical study on instability of sinusoidal flame induced by multiple shock waves

The instabilities of a three-dimensional sinusoidally premixed flame induced by an incident shock wave with Mach = 1.7 and its reshock waves were studied by using the Navier–Stokes(NS) equations with a single-step chemical reaction and a high resolution, 9th-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme. The computational results were validated by the grid independence test and the experimental results in the literature. The computational results show that after the passage of incident shock wave the flame interface develops in symmetric structure accompanied by large-scale transverse vortex structures. After the interactions by successive reshock waves, the flame interface is gradually destabilized and broken up, and the large-scale vortex structures are gradually transformed into small-scale vortex structures. The small-scale vortices tend to be isotropic later.The results also reveal that the evolution of the flame interface is affected by both mixing process and chemical reaction. In order to identify the relationship between the mixing and the chemical reaction, a dimensionless parameter, η, that is defined as the ratio of mixing time scale to chemical reaction time scale, is introduced. It is found that at each interaction stage the effect of chemical reaction is enhanced with time.The enhanced effect of chemical reaction at the interaction stage by incident shock wave is greater than that at the interaction stages by reshock waves. The result suggests that the parameter η can reasonably character the features of flame interface development induced by the multiple shock waves.     

Numerical study of three-dimensional developments of premixed flame induced by multiple shock waves

The three-dimensional interactions of a perturbed premixed flame interface with a planar incident shock wave and its reflected shock waves are numerically simulated by solving the compressible, reactive Navier–Stokes equations with the high-resolution scheme and a single-step chemical reaction. The effects of the initial incident shock wave strength (Mach number) and the initial perturbation pattern of interface on the interactions are investigated. The distinct properties of perturbation growth on the flame interface during the interactions are presented. Our results show that perturbation growth is mainly attributed to the flame stretching and propagation. The flame stretching is associated with the larger-scale vortical flow due to Richtmyer–Meshkov instability while the flame propagation is due to the chemical reaction. The mixing properties of unburned/burned gases on both sides of the flame are quantitatively analyzed by using integral and statistical diagnostics. The results show that the large-scale flow due to the vortical motion always plays a dominating role during the reactive interaction process; however, the effect of chemistry becomes more important at the later stage of the interactions, especially for higher Mach number cases. The scalar dissipation due to the molecular diffusion is always small in the present study and can be negligible.     

Numerical simulations of the process of multiple shock–flame interactions

Based on a weighted essentially nonoscillatory scheme, the multiple interactions of a flame interface with an incident shock wave and its reshock waves are numerically simulated by solving the compressible reactive Navier–Stokes equations with a single-step Arrhenius chemical reaction. The two-dimensional sinusoidally perturbed premixed flames with different initial perturbed amplitudes are used to investigate the effect of the initial perturbation on the flame evolutions. The results show that the development of the flame interface is directly affected by the initial perturbed amplitudes before the passages of reshock waves, and the perturbation development is mainly controlled by the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability(RMI). After the successive impacts of multiple reshock waves, the chemical reaction accelerates the consumption of reactants and leads to a gradual disappearance of the initial perturbed information. The perturbation developments in frozen flows with the same initial interface as those in reactive flows are also demonstrated.Comparisons of results between the reactive and frozen flows show that a chemical reaction changes the perturbation pattern of the flame interface by decreasing the density gradient,thereby weakening the baroclinic torque in the flame mixing region, and therefore plays a dominant role after the passage of reshock waves.     

Numerical investigation of ethylene flame bubble instability induced by shock waves

In this paper, the ethylene/oxygen/nitrogen premixed flame instabilities induced by incident and reflected shock wave were investigated numerically. The effects of grid resolutions and chemical mechanisms on the flame bubble deformation process are evaluated. In the computational frame, the 2D multi-component Navier–Stokes equations with second-order flux-difference splitting scheme were used; the stiff chemical source term was integrated using an implicit ordinary differential equations (ODEs) solver. The two ethylene/oxygen/nitrogen chemical mechanisms, namely 3-step reduced mechanism and 35-step elementary skeletal mechanism, were used to examine the reliability of chemistry. On the other hand, the different grid sizes, Δx × Δy = 0.25 × 0.5mm and Δx × Δy = 0.15 × 0.2mm, were implemented to examine the accuracy of the grid resolution. The computational results were qualitatively validated with experimental results of Thomas et al. (Combust Theory Model 5:573–594, 2001). Two chemical mechanisms and two grid resolutions used in present study can qualitatively reproduce the ethylene spherical flame instability process generated by an incident shock wave of Mach number 1.7. For the case of interaction between the flame and reflected shock waves, the 35-steps mechanism qualitatively predicts the physical process and is somewhat independent on the grid resolutions, while the 3-steps mechanism fails to reproduce the instability of ethylene flame for the two selected grid resolutions. It is concluded that the detailed chemical mechanism, which includes the chain elementary reactions of fuel combustion, describes the flame instability induced by shock wave, in spite of the fact that the flame thickness (reaction zone) is represented by 1–2 grids only.      

激波冲击下air/SF6界面的Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性

实验研究了低马赫数(1.27)激波作用air/SF6界面的RM不稳定性问题.air/SF6初始正弦界面由厚度为1～2 μm的薄膜相隔得到,用阴影法测试界面演化过程.实验结果表明:由于不稳定性重流体(SF6)向轻流体(air)演化成“尖钉”结构,而轻流体演化为“气泡”结构;由于界面切向速度差的Kelvin-Helm-ho...     

激波诱导下的气体界面不稳定性实验研究

界面不稳定性, 特别是Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) 不稳定性, 是流体
力学中一项重要的研究内容, 无论在学术研究领域还是工程应用领域都有着
重要的研究价值和应用背景. RM 不稳定性问题自提出以来, 得到了学术界
广泛的关注, 其研究无论是在实验方法、数值模拟还是在理论分析方面都取
得了很大的进展. 在激波管中开展激波与界面相互作用的实验研究, 即研究
界面初始扰动在激波诱导下的演化规律, 是目前研究RM 不稳定性的重要手
段. RM 不稳定性实验研究包括3 个部分, 分别是激波的产生、界面的形成
以及流场的观测. 综述了RM 不稳定性的实验研究进展, 并针对目前研究的
局限性提出了RM 不稳定性今后实验研究的重点和方向: 汇聚激波作用下界
面不稳定性的发展规律; 激波冲击下多种形状及大振幅界面的演化机理; 三
维界面的RM 不稳定性发展规律; 可压缩湍流的形成与混合机理.      

Interaction of a reflected shock from a concave wall with a flame distorted by an incident shock

Observations are presented from calculations where a laminar spherical CH₄/air flame was perturbed successively by incident and reflected shock waves reflected from a planar or concave wall. The two-dimensional axi-symmetric Navier–Stokes equations with detailed chemistry were used. The computational results were qualitatively validated with experiments which were performed in a standard shock tube arrangement. Under the influence of the incident shock wave, a Richtmyer–Meshkov instability is induced in the flame, and the distorted flame finally takes the form of two separated elliptical burning bubbles in the symmetric cross plane. Then, under subsequent interactions with the shock wave reflected from the planar or the concave wall, the flame takes a mushroom-like shape. Transverse waves produced by the shock reflection from the concave wall can compress the flame towards the axis, and the focusing shock generated on the concave wall will lead to a larger mushroom-like flame than that induced by the planar reflection.