Driver gas contaminationin a detonation-driven reflected-shock tunnel

A computational study has been carried out to examine the effects of driver gas contamination in the NASA HYPULSE facility at GASL when operating with a detonation driver in reflected-shock tunnel mode. Unlike high-enthalpy shock tunnels which use helium as a driver gas, the driver gas in a detonation driver consists of a mixture of water vapour and argon, which has very different chemical and thermodynamic properties than those of helium. The purpose of the present work is to quantitatively evaluate the effects of driver gas contamination on the flow properties in the test section. Two computational analyses have been performed. The first analysis examined the nozzle flow under the influence of a prescribed level of driver gas contamination. In the second analysis, the transient development of the driver gas leakage in the reflected-shock region in the shock tube is studied. The unique flow features brought about by the detonation-driver gas and the method for detecting the contamination are discussed.Received: 6 August 2002, Revised: 22 September 2003, Published online: 10 February 2004Correspondence to: R.S.M. ChueAn abridged version of this paper was presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Shock Waves at Fort Worth, Texas, July 23 to 27, 2001     

Diaphragm rupture. Impingement by a conically-nosed, ram-accelerator projectile

The effect of diaphragm rupture by a conically-nosed projectile on the gasdynamics related to ram accelerator operation was experimentally and numerically studied. The experiments were conducted using a 25-mm-bore ram accelerator. Either air or nitrogen was used as the test gas. Using a high-speed image converter camera, it was observed that during the process of the diaphragm rupture a region with strong radiation developed between the diaphragm and the approaching projectile/sabot. This radiating region corresponds to the shock-heated gas which is originated from a precursory shock wave driven by the accelerating projectile/sabot. The flow around the projectile upon entering the test section by rupturing the diaphragm was visualized by holographic interferometry. During the diaphragm rupture, the system of oblique shock waves around the conical nose of the projectile was seen undisturbed on the downstream side of the diaphragm. Under the same condition as the experiment, numerical simulation was conducted using GRP (Generalized Riemann Problem) scheme which was extended to the computation of compressible flow fields bounded by moving surfaces. Two diaphragm rupture models were examined: (1) the diaphragm deformed by wrapping tightly around the moving projectile; (2) the diaphragm was ruptured instantly at the moment the projectile touched the diaphragm. Comparing these models with the experimentally visualized flow, the former was found to express the diaphragm rupture process much better than the latter. Received 9 February 1998 / Accepted 9 September 1998     

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.      

Simulation of a complete reflected shock tunnel showing a vortex mechanism for flow contamination

Simulations of a complete reflected shock tunnel facility have been performed with the aim of providing a better understanding of the flow through these facilities. In particular, the analysis is focused on the premature contamination of the test flow with the driver gas. The axisymmetric simulations model the full geometry of the shock tunnel and incorporate an iris-based model of the primary diaphragm rupture mechanics, an ideal secondary diaphragm and account for turbulence in the shock tube boundary layer with the Baldwin-Lomax eddy viscosity model. Two operating conditions were examined: one resulting in an over-tailored mode of operation and the other resulting in approximately tailored operation. The accuracy of the simulations is assessed through comparison with experimental measurements of static pressure, pitot pressure and stagnation temperature. It is shown that the widely-accepted driver gas contamination mechanism in which driver gas ‘jets’ along the walls through action of the bifurcated foot of the reflected shock, does not directly transport the driver gas to the nozzle at these conditions. Instead, driver gas laden vortices are generated by the bifurcated reflected shock. These vortices prevent jetting of the driver gas along the walls and convect driver gas away from the shock tube wall and downstream into the nozzle. Additional vorticity generated by the interaction of the reflected shock and the contact surface enhances the process in the over-tailored case. However, the basic mechanism appears to operate in a similar way for both the over-tailored and the approximately tailored conditions.Communicated by R. R. Boyce     

Improvement of a free piston driver for a high-enthalpy shock tunnel

In order to improve the operation of a high-enthalpy free piston shock tunnel its tuned operation was studied analytically and experimentally. First, the piston motion in the free piston driver tube was analytically solved by proposing a simple piston/gasdynamic model, and the tuned operation condition was formulated as an eigenvalue with which the piston has sufficiently high speed at the moment of diaphragm rupture, so as to maintain a constant driver gas pressure, and reduces its speed to come to rest when very closely approaching the end of the driver tube. Second, the result of this analysis was validated by its comparison with experiments which were conducted in the medium-sized free piston shock tunnel HEK installed at the NAL Kakuda Research Center. By observing the detail of piston landing at the end of the driver tube the present tuned operation was found to be successfully achieved with the operating condition given here. Its advantages in improving the pressure recovery factor and in enhancing the stagnation enthalpy were successfully demonstrated. Received 8 June 1997 / Accepted 1 October 1997     

长试验时间爆轰驱动激波风洞技术研究

地面试验是先进高超声速飞行器研制的主要手段之一,获得满足高超声速气动实验研究的长时间高焓气流是发展激波风洞技术的关键难题之一.依据反向爆轰驱动方法,针对满足超燃试验有效时间的要求,讨论了爆轰驱动激波风洞运行缝合条件匹配、喷管起动激波干扰控制和激波管末端激波边界层相互作用等因素对激波风洞试验时间的制约及其相应的解决方法.应用这些延长试验时间的激波风洞创新技术,成功研制了基于反向爆轰驱动方法的超大型激波风洞,试验时间长达100ms,并有复现高超声速飞行条件的流动模拟能力.      

Experimental study on the flow field behind a backward-facing step using a detonation-driven shock tunnel

The supersonic combustion RAM jet (SCRAM jet) engine is expected to be used in next-generation space planes and hypersonic airliners. To develop the engine, stabilized combustion in a supersonic flow field must be attained even though the residence time of flow is extremely short. A mixing process for breathed air and fuel injected into the supersonic flow field is therefore one of the most important design problems. Because the flow inside the SCRAM jet engine has high enthalpy, an experimental facility is required to produce the high-enthalpy flow field. In this study, a detonation-driven shock tunnel was built to produce a high-enthalpy flow, and a model SCRAM jet engine equipped with a backward-facing step was installed in the test section of the facility to visualize flow fields using a color schlieren technique and high-speed video camera. The fuel was injected perpendicularly to a Mach 3 flow behind the backward-facing step. The height of the step, the injection distance and injection pressure were varied to investigate the effects of the step on air/fuel mixing characteristics. The results show that the recirculation region increases as the fuel injection pressure increases. For injection behind the backward-facing step, mixing efficiency is much higher than with a flat plate. Also, the injection position has a significant influence on the size of the recirculation region generated behind the backward-facing step. The schlieren photograph and pressure histories measured on the bottom wall of the SCRAM jet engine model show that the fuel was ignited behind the step.Communicated by K. Takayama PACS 47.40.Ki     

高超声速飞行复现风洞理论与方法

针对高超声速飞行伴随的热化学反应流动,本文回顾了郭永怀先生的科研理念和学科布局,综述了他亲手成立的高温气动团队在高超声速飞行风洞实验模拟理论与方法方面的研究进展.高温气体的迅速产生与迅速应用是一种理想的风洞运行方法,而激波管就是这样一种实验装备.论文首先介绍了激波管技术的基本理论与方程,指出将其用于高超声速流动实验模拟时所具有的独特优势.然后讨论了应用激波风洞复现需要的高超声速飞行状态的可行性、基本方程和需要解决的关键问题.针对这些关键问题,进一步介绍了如何应用爆轰现象研发激波风洞驱动技术的理论,并给出了基于爆轰驱动方法的技术发展和工程应用验证.最后,论文介绍了爆轰驱动激波风洞的界面匹配条件,该条件奠定了长实验时间激波风洞运行基础,是其他驱动方法尝试解决而没能完全解决的难题.高温气动团队关于高超声速飞行复现风洞的理论与技术研究,实现了郭永怀先生的战略规划,成就了国际领先的高超声速热化学反应流动研究平台.      

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。      

Experiments in hand-operated,hypersonic shock tunnel facility

Experiments were conducted using the newly developed table-top, hand-operated hypersonic shock tunnel, otherwise known as the Reddy hypersonic shock tunnel. This novel instrument uses only manual force to generate the shock wave in the shock tube, and is designed to generate a freestream flow of Mach 6.5 in the test section. The flow was characterized using stagnation point pressure measurements made using fast-acting piezoelectric transducers. Schlieren visualization was also carried out to capture the bow shock in front of a hemispherical body placed in the flow. Freestream Mach numbers estimated at various points in the test section showed that for a minimum diameter of 46 mm within the test section, the value did not vary by more than 3 % along any cross-sectional plane. The results of the experiments presented here indicate that the device may be successfully employed for basic hypersonic research activities at the university level.     

Oxyhydrogen combustion and detonation driven shock tube

The performance of combustion driver ignited by multi-spark plugs distributed along axial direction has been analysed and tested. An improved ignition method with three circumferential equidistributed ignitors at main diaphragm has been presented, by which the produced incident shock waves have higher repeatability, and better steadiness in the pressure, temperature and velocity fields of flow behind the incidence shock, and thus meets the requirements of aerodynamic experiment. The attachment of a damping section at the end of the driver can eliminate the high reflection pressure produced by detonation wave, and the backward detonation driver can be employed to generate high enthalpy and high density test flow. The incident shock wave produced by this method is well repeated and with weak attenuation. The reflection wave caused by the contracted section at the main diaphragm will weaken the unfavorable effect of rarefaction wave behind the detonation wave, which indicates that the forward detonation driver can be applied in the practice. For incident shock wave of identical strength, the initial pressure of the forward detonation driver is about 1 order of magnitude lower than that of backward detonation. The project supported by State Science and Technology Committee, National Natural Foundation of Science of China (19082012), Chinese Academy of Sciences and Project of National High Technology of China. In memory of academician Kuo Yonghuai's 90th anniversary.     

Flow of a dispersed phase in the Laval nozzle and in the test section of a two-phase hypersonic shock tunnel

An unsteady gas-particle flow in a hypersonic shock tunnel is studied numerically. The study is performed in the period from the instant when the diaphragm between the high-pressure and low-pressure chambers is opened until the end of the transition to a quasi-steady flow in the test section. The dispersed phase concentration is extremely low, and the collisions between the particles and their effect on the carrier gas flow are ignored. The particle size is varied. The time evolution of the particle concentration in the test section is obtained. Patterns of the quasi-steady flow of the dispersed phase in the throat of the Laval nozzle and the flow around a model (sphere) are presented. Particle concentration and particle velocity lag profiles at the test-section entrance are obtained. The particle-phase flow structure and the time needed for it to reach a quasi-steady regime are found to depend substantially on the particle size. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 102–113, September–October, 2008.     

DEEP-LEARNING-BASED INTELLIGENT FORCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM USING IN A SHOCK TUNNEL 1)

高焓条件气动力测量试验对高超声速飞行器气动外形设计和优化起决定性作用. 通常采用脉冲风洞(如激波风洞)产生高温、高压驱动气体以模拟高超声速高焓试验气流. 在脉冲风洞对高超飞行器模型进行测力试验时, 测力天平输出信号结果无法摆脱惯性载荷的干扰影响, 其导致的测力模型低频振动问题基本无法通过滤波彻底解决, 尤其对试验时间只有几毫秒的情况, 六分量测力天平的结构设计研究受到了极大挑战. 因此, 对实现短试验时间条件高性能测力的深入研究发现, 天平动态校准凸显重要性和必要性. 本研究提出一种新的基于人工智能深度学习技术的单矢量动态自校准方法和智能测力系统概念, 并应用于目前激波风洞测力试验中. 该动校方法的最主要特点之一是对整体测力系统的校准, 而非仅仅针对天平, 并且保证校准的测力系统即为风洞试验对象, 确保校准与应用的一致性. 在测试评估中, 测试样本和风洞试验验证均得到了较为理想的效果, 大幅度低频振动干扰基本被消除, 脉冲风洞测力的精度和可靠性得到了大幅提高.     

爆轰驱动高焓激波膨胀管性能研究

介绍了中国科学院高温气体动力学实验室JF-16爆轰驱动高焓激波膨胀管的研制进展及其性能测试结果. 性能研究主要测量了入射激波速度和压力曲线. 根据入射激波速度,应用Mirels的黏性激波管理论计算了超高速试验气流的运动速度,然后应用Gaseq软件计算了试验气流的热力学参数. 研究结果表明:在16.35\,m长的JF-16激波膨胀管中获得了流速7\,000\,m/s以上的稳定试验气流,试验时间为50$\sim$100$\mu$s, 试验气流总焓30\,MJ/kg左右.      

Experimental study of shock tunnel flow with a stationary throat plug

A throat plug is a device to prevent fragments produced by the bursting of the primary diaphragm of a shock tunnel from entering the nozzle and damaging the model. An experimental study has been carried out to investigate the flow in the KAIST shock tunnel with two stationary throat plugs at primary shock velocities of 1.19 and 1.28 km/s. These shocks generate tailored conditions when helium and air are used as the driver and driven gases, respectively, at room temperature. Nozzle reservoir pressures and Pitot pressures at the nozzle exit are measured to examine the influence of the stationary throat plug on these properties. The throat plug that has an areal blockage of 6.2 % is found to have negligible effects on shock tunnel flow. However, the throat plug of 19.4 % blockage shows an appreciable influence by generating a pressure bump. Although it retards the establishment time of the nozzle flow, after the transient period, it does not cause deviation of the pressure from that for the clean nozzle configuration. It is found that the reduction of the cross-sectional area, which results from the presence of the throat plug, causes the pressure bump. By increasing the diameter of the driven tube in the region where the throat plug is located appropriately, the magnitude of the pressure bump is reduced significantly.     

氢氧燃烧及爆轰驱动激波管

分析并观察了沿驱动段轴向分布多火塞燃烧驱动段的性能．提出主膜处同一管截面均匀分布三火花塞引燃的点火方法．用这种点火方法驱动产生的入射激波强度重复性较高,激波后气流速度、温度和压力的定常性亦大大改善,可满足气动试验实际要求．提出在驱动段尾端串接卸爆段来消除爆轰波反射高压,从而可使反向爆轰驱动段用来产生高焓高密度试验气流．这种反向爆轰驱动产生的入射激波重复性高,激波衰减弱．在主膜处的收缩段产生的反射波可缓解爆轰波后跟随的稀疏波的不利影响,从而使前向爆轰驱动具有实用性．在产生的入射激波强度相同条件下,前向爆轰驱动所需的爆轰驱动段可爆混合气初始压力可较反向爆轰低近一个量级．     

Three-dimensional effects on regular reflection in steady supersonic flows

The reflection of shock waves between two symmetrical wedges is investigated for the case of three-dimensional flows. Oblique shadowgraphs at various optical angles of yaw and pitch were used to examine the nature of fully three-dimensional flows, with wedge aspect ratios as low as 0.25 being considered. These images were used to construct surface models of the overall flow field for various reflection patterns and aspect ratios, which provides a visual indication of the flow field shape. For a Mach number of 3.1, and suitable wedge angles, the flow field with regular reflection on the tunnel centreline and Mach reflection further out is examined. The point of transition from regular reflection to the peripheral Mach surfaces is identified for various wedge angles and aspect ratios. It is shown that the transition points move outwards from the central plane as the aspect ratio decreases. This shows that three-dimensional flows favor regular reflection, because of the increasing curvature of the incident shock as the wedge becomes narrower, causing a decrease in the local angle of incidence. The height of the Mach stem is shown to be highly dependent on the geometry of the test wedge models. The Mach stem height decreases with aspect ratio due to the three-dimensional relieving effect, where the increase in lateral flow relieves the pressure over the surfaces of the wedges. Experimental evidence of the existence of the strong oblique shock solution in steady flows is presented.Received: 7 July 2003, Revised: 20 October 2003, Accepted: 6 November 2003, Published online: 10 February 2004PACS: 47.40.Nm Correspondence to: B.W. Skews     

自由活塞压缩管ALE方法数值模拟

当前国际上实现高焓气体流动的实验手段之一是自由活塞驱动类脉冲设备,包括自由活塞激波风洞和自由活塞膨胀管.采用自由活塞压缩管作为激波风洞和膨胀管的驱动段时,其驱动能力在很大程度上决定了该类设备的性能.本文采用计算流体力学中任意拉格朗日——欧拉方法(arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian)数值模拟了压缩管内部的自由活塞运动和气体流动特征.采用移动网格技术来适应活塞运动边界,耦合求解网格运动和气体流动过程,并通过双时间步长方法进行流体运动的时间积分.为了满足几何守恒律(geometric conservation law),对移动网格的法向矢量和表面面积计算进行了修正.不同时刻的活塞位置试验测量结果及欧拉方法预测结果,以及基于简单波理论获得的运动活塞底部气体压力、活塞速度与活塞位置都与当前的ALE方法十分一致.该工作为下一步数值模拟自由活塞激波风洞和自由活塞膨胀管中包括压缩管、激波管和喷管等不同部位的耦合流动提供了基础.      

Detonation driver for enhancing shock tube performance

The development of a shock-induced detonation driver for enhancing the performance of a shock tube is described. The detonation wave is induced by the expansion of helium or air. Various gaseous fuel-oxidizer combinations are examined. This method produces a detonation wave which propagates downstream that transitions into a shock wave in the driven section. High-enthalpy flows with a maximum total temperature of 4200 K and a maximum total pressure of 34 atm in the driven tube are achieved. The problems of achieving the so-called perfectly-driven mode as well as those of inadequate fuel-oxidizer mixing are discussed.Received: 26 April 2002, Accepted: 23 December 2002, Published online: 28 April 2003