The influence of cellular structure on detonation transmission

We present two-dimensional numerical simulations of the transmission of detonation from a rectangular channel into a larger volume. The simulations solve the Euler equations on a Cartesian grid using the method of Flux-Corrected Transport for the fluid equations and a two-step induction parameter model for the chemistry. We simulate detonation in a H₂/O₂/Ar mixture and use sufficient grid resolution to resolve the cellular structure of the detonation. When a planar detonation front without a resolved cellular structure expands into the larger volume, the reaction front separates from the shock front and the detonation fails. When the planar front is perturbed to induce a quasi-regular cellular structure in the detonation, it again initially begins to fail, but now the presence of the transverse waves leads to reignition of the detonation in the larger volume. The form of this reignition shows striking similarities to the reignition of detonation which has been seen experimentally in H₂/O₂ mixtures. We describe this reignition mechanism in detail, and also investigate the dependence of the reignition on the number of cells in the detonation front. An abridged version of this paper was presented at the 15th Int. Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems at Boulder, Colorado, from July 30 to August 4, 1995     

A numerical study of the mechanisms of self-reignition in low-overdrive detonations

Below a threshold in overdrive, both stability analysis and numerical simulations predict that one-dimensional detonations in high activation energy mixtures behave as a chaotic sequence of failures followed by reignition. Instead, less chaotic, cellular detonations almost invariably occur in experiments. Numerical simulation, based on the Euler equations with single step chemistry, shows that a ZND detonation initially fails in that regime. The detonation splits into a weaker shock, a surface discontinuity separating reacted from unreacted fluid, and a rarefaction wave. However, the detonation is eventually reignited by the explosion of a small gas pocket, in a process reminiscent of deflagration to detonation transition. In the fluid heated by the leading shock, the chemical reaction occurs slowly at first, but becomes faster as heat is released, until the pocket explodes. Small differences in initial temperature result in large enough differences in reaction time sufficient for one pocket of fluid to explode. In two dimensions, the explosion occurs earlier because an oblique shock structure develops which unevenly heats the fluid that passes through the leading shock. Hence, pockets that underwent more heating will explode sooner. As it moves upstream, the two-dimensional explosion, meets the leading shock and the detonation quickly develops a transverse wave structure. An abridged version of this paper was presented at the 15th Int. Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems at Boulder, Colorado, from July 30 to August 4, 1995.     

Reignition of detonations by reflected shocks

Numerical simulations are used to study the diffraction, decay, and reignition that occurs when a detonation propagates past an increase in cross-sectional area in a rectangular tube. The computations solve the time-dependent two-dimensional equations describing a reactive flow in an argon-diluted stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen mixture at atmospheric pressure. Previous studies have shown that soon after transmission to a larger area, the reaction front decouples from the leading shock and forms a decaying blast wave (“bubble”) in the larger tube. Then, depending on the initial conditions, the detonation either continues to decay or is reignited as the bubble reflects off confining surfaces. For a strongly overdriven initiating detonation, reignition occurs through an interaction between the bubble and the original contact surface. For a more weakly driven system, reignition can occur in two ways: either in the slip line and Mach stem of the Mach reflection formed when the bubble reflects off the bottom surface of the tube, or by multiple shock interactions that occur when the reflected bubble overtakes the initial detonation front. The computations show the evolution and development of the cellular structure of the steady detonation front. Submitted to the 14th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Energetic and Reactive Systems, Coimbra, Portugal, August, 1993     

Cellular detonations in bidispersed gas-particle mixtures

Formation of cellular detonation in bi-fractional stoichiometric mixtures of aluminum particles and oxygen is investigated numerically. The detonation cell size depends on the particle diameters and relative concentration of the fractions. Certain degeneration of cellular detonation is obtained when compared to the monodisperse mixtures. It is characterized by maximal pressure decrease, transverse wave relaxation and detonation front rectification. Complete degeneration of cellular detonations and stable propagation of a plane detonation front is found in some bi-fractional mixtures. The numerical results are confirmed by acoustic analysis of the detonation structures. This paper is based on work that was presented at the 21st International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Poitiers, France, July 23–27, 2007.     

Analysis of the shock structures in a regular detonation

Time-dependent two-dimensional numerical simulations have been used to investigate the detailed shock structures and patterns of energy release in the regions of the triple points and transverse waves in a planar detonation. As the system of shock triple points evolves between collisions, they trace a well shaped cellular pattern characteristic of detonations in argon-diluted, low-pressure mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen. In the region of the triple points, the shock structure evolves continuously from a single Mach structure to a double Mach structure and finally to a complex Mach structure characteristic of spinning detonations. Most of the energy released in the region of the triple points. The amount of energy release increases as the triple point comes closer to a collision with a wall or another triple point. Just before the collision, there is a large region of energy release that covers the length of the interacting transverse waves. The result is a rectangular high-energy region which boosts the propagation of the new detonation cell.     

Two-dimensional reactive flow dynamics in cellular detonation waves

This investigation deals with the two-dimensional unsteady detonation characterized by the cellular structure resulting from trajectories of triple-shock configurations formed by the transverse waves and the leading shock front. The time-dependent reactive shock problem considered here is governed by a system of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws coupled to a polytropic equation of state and a one-step Arrhenius chemical reaction rate with heat release. The numerical solution obtained allowed us to follow the dynamics of the cellular detonation front involving the triple points, transverse waves and unreacted pockets. The calculations show that the weak tracks observed inside the detonation cells around the points of collision of the triple-shock configurations arise from interactions between the transverse shocks and compression waves generated by the collision. The unreacted pockets of gas formed during the collisions of triple points change form when the activation energy increases. For the self-sustained detonation considered here, the unreacted pockets burn inside the region independent of the downstream rarefaction, and thus the energy released supports the detonation propagation. The length of the region independent of the downstream is approximately the size of one or two detonation cell. Received 13 February 1998 / Accepted 13 August 1998     

Mechanisms of detonation transmission in layered H2-O2 mixtures

When a plane detonation propagating through an explosive comes into contact with a bounding explosive, different types of diffraction patterns, which may result in the transmission of a detonation into the bounding mixture, are observed. The nature of these diffraction patterns and the mode of detonation transmission depend on the properties of the primary and bounding explosives. An experimental and analytical study of such diffractions, which are fundamental to many explosive applications, has been conducted in a two channel shock tube, using H₂-O₂ mixtures of different equivalence ratios as the primary and bounding or secondary explosive. The combination of mixtures was varied from rich primary / lean secondary to lean primary / rich secondary since the nature of the diffraction was found to depend on whether the Chapman-Jouguet velocity of the primary mixture,D _p, was greater than or less than that of the secondary mixture,D _s. Schlieren framing photographs of the different diffraction patterns were obtained and used to measure shock and oblique detonation wave angles and velocities for the different diffraction patterns, and these were compared with the results of a steady-state shock-polar solution of the diffraction problem. Two basic types of diffraction and modes of detonation reinitiation were observed. WhenD _p>D _s, an oblique shock connecting the primary detonation to an oblique detonation in the secondary mixture was observed. WithD _p<D _s, two modes of reinitiation were observed. In some cases, ignition occurs behind the Mach reflection of the shock wave, which is transmitted into the secondary mixture when the primary detonation first comes into contact with it, from the walls of the shock tube. In other cases, a detonation is initiated in the secondary mixture when the reflected shock crosses the contact surface behind the incident detonation. These observed modes of Mach stem and contact surface ignition have also been observed in numerical simulations of layered detonation interactions, as has the combined oblique-shock oblique-detonation configuration whenD _p>D _s. WhenD _p>D _s, the primary wave acts like a wedge moving into the secondary mixture with velocityD _p after steady state has been reached, a configuration which also arises in oblique-detonation ramjets and hypervelocity drivers.     

超音速来流中爆轰波衍射和二次起爆过程研究

预爆管技术被广泛地应用在爆轰波发动机的起爆过程中,但是在超音速来流中基于预爆管技术起始爆轰波的研究并未被广泛地开展。基于此,本文中数值研究了横向超音速来流对半自由空间内爆轰波的衍射和自发二次起爆、及管道内的衍射和壁面反射二次起爆两种现象的影响。数值模拟的控制方程为二维欧拉方程,空间上使用五阶WENO格式进行数值离散,采用带有诱导步的两步链分支化学反应模型。所模拟的爆轰波具有规则的胞格结构,对应于用惰性气体高度稀释过的可爆混合物中形成的爆轰波。结果表明:在半自由空间内,在本文所模拟的几何尺寸下,爆轰波并未成功发生二次起爆现象,但是爆轰波的自持传播距离随着横向超音速来流强度的增强而增加。在核心的三角形流动区域外,波面诱导产生了更多的横波结构;在管道内,横向的超音速来流在逆流侧对出口气流产生了压缩作用,能有效提高波面压力,因此反射后的激波压力也比较高。在同样的几何尺寸下,爆轰波在静止和超音速(Ma=2.0)气流中分别出现了二次起爆失败和成功两种现象,这是由于在超音速来流中化学反应面的褶皱诱导产生了横波结构,横波与管壁以及其他横波之间的碰撞提高了前导激波的强度,并最终促进了爆轰波在超声速流主管道内的成功起始。     

Numerical simulation of spinning detonation in square tube

A single spinning detonation wave propagating in a square tube is simulated three-dimensionally with the detailed chemical reaction mechanism for hydrogen/air mixture proposed by Petersen and Hanson. The spinning detonation is composed of a transverse detonation rotating around the wall normal to the tube axis, triple lines propagating partially out of phase, and a short pressure trail. The formation of an unburned gas pocket behind the detonation front was not observed in the present simulations because the rotating transverse detonation completely consumed the unburned gas. The calculated profiles of instantaneous OH mass fraction have a keystone shape behind the detonation front. The numerical results for the pitch and track angle on the tube wall agree well with the experimental results. This paper is based on work that was presented at the 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems at Montreal, Canada, from July 31 to August 5, 2005.     

Detonation formation in H $_2$-O $_2$/He/Ar mixtures at elevated initial pressures

In this paper the formation of detonation in H-O/He/Ar mixtures at elevated initial pressures was investigated in an initiation tube for a detonation driver with an exploding wire as the ignition source. In most experiments the detonation wave was formed by a DDT process in which a reactive shock wave accelerates behind the leading shock wave and eventually leads to the onset of detonation. The onset position was found to be at the leading shock wave or behind it. Only in very sensitive mixtures at high initial pressure the direct initiation of detonation was observed. The influence of ignition energy, initial pressure and composition on the detonation induction distance was determined. The results show that the detonation induction distance increases with the decrease of ignition energy and initial pressure and with the increase of the mole fraction of helium or argon. With the same mole fraction, argon increases the induction distance more than helium. In the facility utilized the DDT upper and lower limits of hydrogen in H-O mixtures are in the ranges from 36 to 40 % and from 78 to 82 %, respectively, and the upper limits for helium and argon in stoichiometric H-O mixtures are 40 % and 36 %, respectively. High pressure peaks generated by the DDT process were measured, especially in mixtures near the DDT limits. Statistical results show that such peak pressures can be up to 6 times of the CJ-pressures. Received 1 March 2000 / Accepted 25 May 2000     

Numerical study of three-dimensional detonation structure transformations in a narrow square tube: from rectangular and diagonal modes into spinning modes

Three-dimensional (3-D) detonation structure transformations from rectangular and diagonal modes into spinning modes in a narrow square tube are investigated by high-resolution simulation. Numerical simulations are performed with a Riemann solver of the HLLC-type, new cell-based structured adaptive mesh refinement data structure, high-order, parallel adaptive mesh refinement reactive flow code. A simplified one-step kinetic reaction model is used to reveal the 3-D detonation structure. The four different types of initial disturbances applied in the ZND profiles lead to the structures of rectangular in phase, rectangular out of phase, rectangular partial out of phase and diagonal, respectively, during the initial stages of detonation propagation. Eventually, all these detonation structures evolve into the self-sustained spinning detonations. The asymmetric disturbance leads to a stable spinning detonation much faster than the rest. The important features in the formation of spinning detonation are revealed using a 3-D visualization, and a remarkable qualitative agreement with experimental and numerical results is obtained with respect to the transverse wave dynamics and detonation front structures. The transverse wave collisions produce the unburnt gas pockets and the energy to sustain the detonation front propagation and distortion. The periodic pressure oscillation of front plays a complex role as it shifts the reaction zone structure with an accompanying change in the driving energy of transition and the detonation parameters which result in the more distorted front and the unstable detonation. Eventually, the unstable distorted detonation evolves into a spinning detonation.     

Investigation of the detonation regimes in gaseous mixtures with suspended starch particles

The existence of a secondary discontinuity at the rear of a detonation front shown in experiments by Peraldi and Veyssiere (1986) in stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen mixtures with suspended 20-m starch particles has not been explained satisfactorily. Recently Veyssiere et al. (1997) analyzed these results using a one-dimensional (1-D) numerical model, and concluded that the heat release rate provided by the burning of starch particles in gaseous detonation products is too weak to support a double-front detonation (DFD), in contrast to the case of hybrid mixtures of hydrogen-air with suspended aluminium particles in which a double-front detonation structure was observed by Veyssiere (1986). A two-dimensional (2-D) numerical model was used in the present work to investigate abovementioned experimental results for hybrid mixtures with starch particles. The formation and propagation of the detonation has been examined in the geometry similar to the experimental tube of Peraldi and Veyssiere (1986), which has an area change after 2 m of propagation from the ignition point from a 69 mm dia. section to a 53 mm 53 mm square cross section corresponding to a 33% area contraction. It is shown that the detonation propagation regime in these experiments has a different nature from the double-front detonation observed in hybrid mixtures with aluminium particles. The detonation propagates as a pseudo-gas detonation (PGD) because starch particles release their heat downstream of the CJ plane giving rise to a non-stationary compression wave. The discontinuity wave at the rear of the detonation front is due to the interaction of the leading detonation front with the tube contraction, and is detected at the farthest pressure gauge location because the tube length is insufficient for the perturbation generated by the tube contraction to decay. Thus, numerical simulations explain experimental observations made by Peraldi and Veyssiere (1986). Received 5 July 1997 / Accepted 13 July 1998     

煤油液滴直径对两相旋转爆轰发动机流场的影响

为探究煤油液滴不同初始直径对气液两相旋转爆轰发动机流场的影响,假设初始注入的煤油液滴具有均匀直径,考虑雾化破碎、蒸发等过程,建立了非定常两相爆轰的Eulerian-Lagrangian模型,进行了液态煤油/高温空气爆轰的非预混二维数值模拟。结果表明：在初始液滴直径为1～70μm的工况范围,燃烧室内均形成了单个稳定传播的旋转爆轰波;全局当量比为1时,爆轰波前的空气区域大于液滴煤油的蒸气区域,导致波前燃料空气混合不均匀,波前均存在富油区和贫油区,两相速度差导致分离出的空气形成低温条带;当煤油液滴的初始直径较小时,波前的反应物混合过程主要受蒸发的影响,爆轰波可稳定传播;当直径减小至1μm时,煤油液滴在入口处即蒸发,旋转爆轰波表现为气相传播的特性,爆轰波结构平整;当煤油液滴的初始直径较大时,波前的反应物混合过程主要受液滴破碎的影响;对于相同的燃料质量流量,在不同初始煤油液滴直径工况下,煤油液滴最大的停留时间均占爆轰波传播时间尺度的80%以上;爆轰波前燃料预蒸发为气相的占比越高,爆轰波的传播速度越高;初始液滴直径为10～70μm的工况范围内,爆轰波的速度随初始直径的增大先升高后降低。     

Cellular detonation diffraction in gas–particle mixtures

Diffraction of cellular heterogeneous detonation out of a channel into open half-space in a mixture of aluminum particles and oxygen is investigated numerically. The flow is found to be very similar to gas detonation diffraction. The detonation weakening behind the step results in combustion front deceleration and decoupling from the leading shock wave. Subsequent re-initiation takes place in a transverse wave. New transverse waves are generated along the expanding front. The computations that were performed show that the critical number of cells is several times less than that for gases. This is confirmed by theoretical estimates based upon the Mitrofanov–Soloukhin approach.     

Wave dynamic processes in cellular detonation reflection from wedges

When the cell width of the incident detonation wave (IDW) is comparable to or larger than the Mach stem height, self-similarity will fail during IDW reflection from a wedge surface. In this paper, the detonation reflection from wedges is investigated for the wave dynamic processes occurring in the wave front, including transverse shock motion and detonation cell variations behind the Mach stem. A detailed reaction model is implemented to simulate two-dimensional cellular detonations in stoichiometric mixtures of H ₂/O ₂ diluted by Argon. The numerical results show that the transverse waves, which cross the triple point trajectory of Mach reflection, travel along the Mach stem and reflect back from the wedge surface, control the size of the cells in the region swept by the Mach stem. It is the energy carried by these transverse waves that sustains the triple-wave-collision with a higher frequency within the over-driven Mach stem. In some cases, local wave dynamic processes and wave structures play a dominant role in determining the pattern of cellular record, leading to the fact that the cellular patterns after the Mach stem exhibit some peculiar modes. The English text was polished by Yumming Chen.     

爆轰波通过扩张喷管的双曝光全息实验和数值研究

结合实验和数值模拟方法,对以脉冲爆轰发动机为背景的爆轰波通过扩张喷管的流动进行了系列研究。实验采用双曝光全息干涉方法对爆轰波绕射流场进行测量,得到了比传统的纹影法更清晰和可定量化的照片。发展了基于非结构四边形网格自适应有限体积程序,结合基元化学反应模型对扩张喷管中爆轰化学反应流场进行了数值模拟,模拟结果与实验照片吻合较好。实验和数值模拟结果表明,爆轰波绕射具有许多和激波绕射不同的流场特征,其中包括二次起爆现象、化学反应面与前导激波相脱离而引起的复杂流场等,同时初始压力和扩张角度变化也对爆轰波绕射过程产生较大影响,初始压力越低,化学反应区和前导激波分离现象越明显,且前导激波的曲率越大。     

Structure and stability of one-dimensional detonationsin ethylene-air mixtures

The propagation of one-dimensional detonations in ethylene-air mixtures is investigated numerically by solving the one-dimensional Euler equations with detailed finite-rate chemistry. The numerical method is based on a second-order spatially accurate total-variation-diminishing scheme and a point implicit, first-order-accurate, time marching algorithm. The ethylene-air combustion is modeled with a 20-species, 36-step reaction mechanism. A multi-level, dynamically adaptive grid is utilized, in order to resolve the structure of the detonation. Parametric studies over an equivalence ratio range of for different initial pressures and degrees of detonation overdrive demonstrate that the detonation is unstable for low degrees of overdrive, but the dynamics of wave propagation varies with fuel-air equivalence ratio. For equivalence ratios less than approximately 1.2 the detonation exhibits a short-period oscillatory mode, characterized by high-frequency, low-amplitude waves. Richer mixtures ( 1.2$" align="middle" border="0"> ) exhibit a low-frequency mode that includes large fluctuations in the detonation wave speed. At high degrees of overdrive, stable detonation wave propagation is obtained. A modified McVey-Toong short-period wave-interaction theory is in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations.Received: 13 September 2004, Revised: 1 November 2004, Published online: 3 March 2005[/PUBLISHED]Correspondence to: S. Yungster     

气相爆轰波反应区结构的平面激光诱导荧光测量

基于平面激光诱导荧光(PLIF)技术对2H2 O2 10Ar的预混气体爆轰波反应区结构进行实验研究.采用高浓度的氩稀释有利于减小爆轰化学反应自发辐射光对OH荧光的影响.合理设置PLIF系统、爆轰波和ICCD之间的同步控制触发延时,得到爆轰波阵面附近的OH荧光分布图像.结果表明:诱导激波后反应阵面不是平面且不稳定.荧光图像上能清晰地看到类似拱顶石的结构,它位于两马赫杆之间,以入射激波、剪切层和反应阵面为边界.无论是在马赫杆后还是在入射激波后,OH浓度分布在诱导区末端急剧增加至最大值.随着离开反应阵面的距离增加,OH浓度快速减小.由于爆轰模式和激光片光方向的影响,从PLIF图像上测得的横波间距值较离散,均小于胞格宽度.     

周期性非均匀介质中气相爆轰波演变模式研究

气相爆轰波在周期性非均匀介质中的起爆, 稳态传播和失效机制都极为复杂, 很多物理机制尚不明确, 是当前爆轰物理领域研究的热点和难点. 本文使用反应欧拉方程和两步化学反应模型对爆轰波在非均匀介质中的传播机理进行了数值模拟研究, 非均匀性由横向周期性分布的温度扰动体现, 重点分析不同波长、不同幅度的温度扰动对波阵面波系结构的影响. 计算结果表明, ZND爆轰波在温度扰动下向胞格爆轰波的转变主要受制于两种竞争性因素: 一是爆轰波内在的不稳定性; 二是温度扰动的波长和幅度, 前者是内因, 后者是外因. 温度扰动的存在抑制横波的发展, 延迟了ZND爆轰波向胞格爆轰波的演化, 并且内在不稳定性的增加可以减慢这种延迟现象. 这说明, 温度扰动可以在一定的范围内抑制胞格不稳定性的发展, 但是不能够终止这一过程. 温度的不连续性使得爆轰波阵面更为扭曲, 并在横波附近存在较弱的三波点结构, 即温度扰动可增加爆轰波固有的不稳定性, 改变爆轰波阵面的传播机理. 幅值较大的人工温度扰动可抑制爆轰波的传播和爆轰波自身的不稳定性. 爆轰波阵面胞格结构的形成取决于温度扰动与其自身的不稳定性.      

T型管内流动气体中爆轰绕射过程的数值模拟

基于带化学反应的二维Euler方程,对H₂、O₂、Ar体积比为2:1:1的混合气体系统在T型管内的爆轰绕射进行了数值模拟。用二阶附加半隐的Runge-Kutta法和五阶WENO格式分别离散欧拉方程的时间和空间导数项,采用9组分48步基元反应简化模型描述爆轰波在静止系统和流动系统中的传播过程,得到了温度、压力、典型组元H质量分数的分布及数值胞格结构。结果表明:在流动系统中,迎风面上波阵面为斜爆轰结构,静止系统两侧和顺风面上的波阵面为完全解耦的前导激波;在水平管中,波阵面与上下壁面经历一系列马赫碰撞后,最终形成正爆轰;在流动系统中,胞格结构明显向下游偏移;横向爆轰波的产生对爆轰波的再生起到了关键作用。