再生式喷雾燃烧过程中着火延迟期的影响特性

对液体药火炮中的再生式喷雾燃烧过程进行了大量的实验研究，发现了着火延迟期对再生式喷雾燃烧过程的重要影响。建立了反映着火后燃烧室内压力状态与着火延迟期间各参量之间关系的分析模型；结果表明，随着着火延迟期的延长，延迟期间液体药堆积量不断增加，进而导致着火后压力升高率急剧增大。运用零维数学模型对整个再生喷雾燃烧过程进行了模拟，模拟结果进一步证实了分析模型结论，较好地再现了正常燃烧过程和非正常燃烧过程的基本特征，阐明了着火延迟期对再生喷雾燃烧过程影响的物理本质。     

含能液滴间相互作用对着火、燃烧过程的影响

在控制再生式液体发射药火炮燃烧稳定性的背景下，采用挂滴装置和高速摄影系统开展了 ＨＡＮ基液体发射药 ＬＰ１８４６液滴组内部相互作用对着火、燃烧过程影响的研究。观测了液满间相互作用对它们所经历的四个特征过程的影响。定量测试液滴组平均着火延迟期、着火温度等特性参数与环境温度和液滴中心间距的关系。实验发现:在一定条件下，液滴组将出现聚并现象。最后．建立了一个工程简化模型，理论计算与实验数据吻合较好。这个工作对控制燃烧稳定性和抑制压力振荡有一定的指导意义。     

液体药再生喷射燃烧特性的实验研究

利用逆向式再生环形喷射装置，研究了高速喷射条件下液体的点火燃烧性能。实验研究发现:喷射条件下液体药的点火燃烧性能较整装式液体装药容易实现一致性，且燃速大幅度增加。同时研究了伴随再生喷射燃烧过程所出现的高频压力振荡，分析了高频压力振荡产生的原因。提出了液体药喷射条件下点火延迟度的概念，它可作为评价ＲＬＰＧ点火器工作性能的指标之一。利用喷射点火延迟度的概念，比较了液体药喷射点火延迟性能对于喷口面积、活塞质量、液体药粘度及液体药能量等参量变化的敏感性。     

A STUDY ON DROPLET VELOCITY OF ETHANOL DURING ELECTROSPRAYING PROCESS AT CONE-JET MODE

研究液滴在静电喷雾下的速度特性是理解喷雾形态的形成及演化的关键.结合锥射流模式下乙醇静电喷雾实验数据,建立了静电喷雾二维轴对称模型.基于离散相液滴运动方程、连续相空气运动方程、电场方程以及用户自定义函数,进行了数值求解,获得了锥射流模式下的乙醇静电喷雾形态、空间电场分布以及液滴速度场分布.考虑了不同空气入口流速的影响,得到了乙醇/空气同轴射流静电喷雾形态的变化规律.结果表明,喷雾外围液滴与空气流场有较强的相互作用,导致喷雾中轴线附近的液滴速度分布变化较小,而在喷雾外围处的液滴速度分布沿径向剧烈变化;随着空气入口速度的增大,乙醇/空气同轴射流静电喷雾形态先趋于发散,当空气入口速度大于喷雾外围液滴轴向速度时,喷雾形态则趋于聚拢.因此,除改变施加电压、液体流量和电极结构外,通过控制空气入口速度来影响喷雾液滴速度场,也可获得不同的静电喷雾效果.     

锥射流模式下乙醇静电喷雾液滴速度特性分析

研究液滴在静电喷雾下的速度特性是理解喷雾形态的形成及演化的关键.结合锥射流模式下乙醇静电喷雾实验数据,建立了静电喷雾二维轴对称模型.基于离散相液滴运动方程、连续相空气运动方程、电场方程以及用户自定义函数,进行了数值求解,获得了锥射流模式下的乙醇静电喷雾形态、空间电场分布以及液滴速度场分布.考虑了不同空气入口流速的影响,得到了乙醇/空气同轴射流静电喷雾形态的变化规律.结果表明,喷雾外围液滴与空气流场有较强的相互作用,导致喷雾中轴线附近的液滴速度分布变化较小,而在喷雾外围处的液滴速度分布沿径向剧烈变化;随着空气入口速度的增大,乙醇/空气同轴射流静电喷雾形态先趋于发散,当空气入口速度大于喷雾外围液滴轴向速度时,喷雾形态则趋于聚拢.因此,除改变施加电压、液体流量和电极结构外,通过控制空气入口速度来影响喷雾液滴速度场,也可获得不同的静电喷雾效果.     

黏性对内空泡诱导柱状液滴界面不稳定性的影响

Rayleigh-Taylor不稳定性存在于爆炸、液滴形成和液体喷雾等工程应用过程中,是流体力学关注的经典问题之一.内空泡振荡诱导液滴界面演化问题是其研究中基本模型之一,空泡振荡作用下液滴界面发生扰动并发展,其特征形态主要表现为破碎、通气和稳定.液体黏性是影响界面不稳定性发展的重要因素,文章通过建立高精度的数值模拟方法,开展液体黏性对内空泡诱导柱状液滴界面不稳定性的影响研究.在数值模拟中,基于开源OpenFOAM框架的多相可压缩求解器直接求解Navier-Stokes方程,采用isoAdvector的几何流体体积法捕捉界面演化特征.结果表明,液体黏性的增加会减缓空泡的收缩,进而减缓液滴界面扰动的发展,该影响下通气工况液滴通气发生时间增加,而稳定工况最大扰动幅值减小.最大扰动幅值的减小直接影响了液滴的特征形态,基于一系列数值模拟结果归纳得到液滴不稳定性相图.在文章讨论的参数范围内,随着黏性增加,小液滴(R_d0 <2 mm)的形态从破碎转变为通气进而变成稳定;中液滴(2 mm d0 <3 mm)的形态从通气转变为稳定,不出现...     

受限空间内甲醇喷雾液滴形成及其爆炸特性

为防控工业喷雾爆炸和完善喷雾爆炸测试方法,在20 L球形喷雾爆炸测试系统内，实验研究了不同环境压力、喷射压力及浓度下的甲醇喷雾液滴形成及爆炸特性规律。结果表明:增大喷射压力更易致使甲醇破碎成微小液滴，甲醇喷雾液滴爆炸极限范围变宽；环境压力的增大导致甲醇喷雾液滴粒径变大，喷雾液滴爆炸极限范围变窄，一定程度上可以有效抑制甲醇泄露可能导致的次生衍生事故发生。当爆炸容器内环境压力为0.1 MPa、喷射压力为2.1 MPa、甲醇喷雾浓度为356.4 g/m3、甲醇液滴索太尔平均直径为2.5 μm时，爆炸特性参数（最大爆炸压力、最大爆炸压力上升速率及层流燃烧速度）在上述拐点处取得最大值；小粒径（1～15 μm）的液滴在外界能量作用下，更易被点燃，且爆炸过程中瞬态物理化学反应更为迅速和剧烈；较大粒径(22 μm以上)的液滴会出现点火困难现象，然而点火成功后，爆炸特性参数均随甲醇喷雾浓度增加而增加，呈现近似线性规律，此时液滴粒径对上述爆炸特性参数的影响可以忽略。研究结果有助于理解喷雾液滴爆炸规律、完善相应测试方法和安全设计。     

压力对燃料滴燃烧速度的影响

实际燃烧装置的喷雾炬内,燃料滴的直径约为几十到几百微米.目前积累的大量有关液滴燃烧的实验资料,大多是用悬挂滴法与多孔球法获得的,所用液滴直径为一到十几毫米,比实际喷雾中的滴径大的多.因而,燃烧过程中自然对流的影响较大,而化学动力学因素的影响较小.研究压力对燃料滴燃烧速度的影响,可以用改变环境介质压力的办法,在宽广的数     

压力对燃料滴燃烧速度的影响

实际燃烧装置的喷雾炬内,燃料滴的直径约为几十到几百微米.目前积累的大量有关液滴燃烧的实验资料,大多是用悬挂滴法与多孔球法获得的,所用液滴直径为一到十几毫米,比实际喷雾中的滴径大的多.因而,燃烧过程中自然对流的影响较大,而化学动力学因素的影响较小.研究压力对燃料滴燃烧速度的影响,可以用改变环境介质压力的办法,在宽广的数 ...     

RLPG点火及冷态喷射过程研究

报道了再生式液体发射药火炮 (RLPG)点火及模拟工质冷态喷射过程的实验结果 ,定量测试了燃烧室、贮液室压力曲线。实验表明 ,采用液体阻尼可以有效减弱点火过程中的压力振荡。针对点火喷射过程建立了数学物理模型 ,并进行了相应数值模拟 ,计算值和实验数据吻合较好。研究结果对深入分析再生式液体发射药火炮内弹道循环有指导意义和参考价值。     

再生喷射燃烧过程中点火特性的实验研究

建立了再生喷射燃烧过程的多功能实验装置和瞬态参数测量系统。针对点火器参数对点火特性的影响规律进行了大量的实验研究，导出了点火器参数与点火特性之间的实用定量关系曲线。在此基础上，进行了相应的再生喷射燃烧过程实验，取得了较好地实验结果。研究表明:通过控制点火器参数以获得与再生喷射燃烧过程的匹配要求相适应的点火特性，对获得性能良好的燃烧过程具有重要意义。     

Spray evaporation and dispersion of n-heptane droplets within premixed flame

A detailed numerical simulation of n-heptane droplets was carried out on a stationary three-dimensional configuration with complex geometry. The investigations focused on spray evaporation and dispersion within a carrier phase that featured operating conditions similar to those found in industrial applications, i.e. elevated pressure and temperature. The simulations were carried out using the Eulerian–Lagrangian approach with two-way coupling. There were two cases. The first dealt with spray characteristics within the preheated carrier phase without considering combustion. The second investigated the influence of combustion on droplet characteristics. Both cases had the same boundary conditions. The numerical simulations used two models to compute the progress variable mean reaction rate that governs the combustion process, which is captured by the Bray–Moss–Libby model.     

Modelling of high-pressure dense diesel sprays with adaptive local grid refinement

An Eulerian–Lagrangian fluid dynamics model simulating the development of dense liquid plumes formed during injection of fuels against compressed air is described and assessed against experimental data. The numerical model employs an adaptive local grid refinement methodology combined with a calculation procedure distributing the mass, momentum and energy exchanged between the liquid and gaseous phases in the numerical cells found in the vicinity of the moving droplets. The use of appropriate weighting functions resolves numerical as well as physical problems realised when the interaction volume available between the two phases is limited to the cell-containing parcel, whose volume may become comparable to that of the dispersed phase. Calculation of ‘virtual’ cell properties provide better estimates for the flow variables realised by the droplets crossing cells in the wake of those upstream and allows for larger time steps to be employed in the solution of the carrier phase conservation equations. The results suggest that the proposed methodology offers significant improvements compared to the standard Lagrangian one frequently adopted in simulation of combustion systems, without the need to use Eulerian flow models in dense spray regions.     

Experimental and numerical analysis of high pressure diesel spray–wall interaction

The interaction between impacting and splashed droplets and air motion plays a fundamental role on the mixture formation process, which is a crucial aspect for the correct operation of modern DI Diesel engines as it greatly influences the combustion process and the exhaust emissions. A complete understanding of spray impingement is quite complex. A mixed numerical–experimental approach is proposed in this paper.     

Microgravity experiments and numerical studies on ethanol/air spray flames

Spray flames are known to exhibit amazing features in comparison with single-phase flames. The weightless situation offers the conditions in which the spray characteristics can be well controlled before and during combustion. The article reports on a joint experimental/numerical work that concerns ethanol/air spray flames observed in a spherical chamber using the condensation technique of expansion cooling (based on the Wilson cloud chamber principle), under microgravity.We describe the experimental set-up and give details on the creation of a homogeneous and nearly monosized aerosol. Different optical diagnostics are employed successfully to measure the relevant parameters of two-phase combustion. A classical shadowgraphy system is used to track the flame speed propagation and allow us to observe the flame front instability. The complete characterization of the aerosol is performed with a laser diffraction particle size analyser by measuring the droplet diameter and the droplet density number, just before ignition. A laser tomography device allows us to measure the temporal evolution of the droplet displacement during flame propagation, as well as to identify the presence of droplets in the burnt gases. The numerical modelling is briefly recalled. In particular, spray-flame propagation is schematized by the combustion spread in a 2-D lattice of fuel droplets surrounded by an initial gaseous mixture of fuel vapour and air.In its spherical expansion, the spray flame presents a corrugated front pattern, while the equivalent single-phase flame does not. From a numerical point of view, the same phenomena of wrinkles are also observed in the simulations. The front pattern pointed out by the numerical approach is identified as of Darrieus–Landau (DL) type. The droplets are found to trigger the instability. Then, we quantitatively compare experimental data with numerical predictions on spray-flame speed. The experimental results show that the spray-flame speed is of the same order of magnitude as that of the single-phase premixed flame. On the other hand, the numerical results exhibit the role played by the droplet radius in spray-flame propagation, and retrieve the experiments only when the droplets are small enough and when the Darrieus–Landau instability is triggered. A final discussion is developed to interpret the various patterns experimentally observed for the spray-flame front.     

Large Eddy Simulation of a Polydisperse Ethanol Spray Flame

Ethanol is identified as an interesting alternative fuel. In this regards, the predictive capability of combustion Large Eddy Simulation approach coupled to Lagrangian droplet dynamic model to retrieve the turbulent droplet dispersion, droplet size distribution, spray evolution and combustion properties is investigated in this paper for an ethanol spray flame. Following the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach with a fully two way coupling, the Favre-filtered low Mach number Navier-Stokes equations are solved on structured grids with dynamic sub-grid scale models to describe the turbulent carrier gas phase. Droplets are injected in polydisperse manner and generated in time dependent boundary conditions. They evaporate to form an air-fuel mixture that yields spray flame. Part of the ethanol droplets evaporates within the prevaporization area before reaching the combustion zone, making the flame to burn in a partially premixed regime. The chemistry is described by a tabulated detailed chemistry based on the flamelet generated manifold approach. The fuel, ethanol, is modeled by a detailed reaction mechanism consisting of 56 species and 351 reversible reactions. The simulation results including excess gas temperature, droplet velocities and corresponding fluctuations, droplet mean diameters and spray volume flux at different distances from the exit plane show good agreement with experimental data. Analysis of combustion spray features allows gaining a deep insight into the two-phase flow process ongoing.     

Temperature measurements of binary droplets using three-color laser-induced fluorescence

Evaporation of multicomponent droplets is a critical problem in many engineering applications, for example spray combustion. Knowledge of droplet temperature is a key issue in understanding the highly complex heat and mass-transfer phenomena related to multicomponent droplet evaporation and combustion. In this work, optical diagnosis based on three color-laser-induced fluorescence was developed: the objective was to measure the temperature of binary droplets (ethanol and acetone mixtures), even when the composition varies with time. Demonstration on an overheated droplet stream of acetone–ethanol mixtures is described and the experimental data are compared with results from a numerical simulation based on the discrete-components model.     

Large Eddy Simulation of Reactive Two-Phase Flow in an Aeronautical Multipoint Burner

Because of compressibility criteria, fuel used in aeronautical combustors is liquid. Their numerical simulation therefore requires the modeling of two-phase flames, involving key phenomena such as injection, atomization, polydispersion, drag, evaporation and turbulent combustion. In the present work, particular modeling efforts have been made on spray injection and evaporation, and their coupling to turbulent combustion models in the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach. The model developed for fuel injection is validated against measurements in a non-evaporating spray in a quiescent atmosphere, while the evaporation model accuracy is discussed from results obtained in the case of evaporating isolated droplets. These models are finally used in reacting LES of a multipoint burner in take-off conditions, showing the complex two-phase flame structure.     

Acetone Droplet Behavior in Reacting and Non Reacting Turbulent Flow

Acetone droplet characteristics in reacting and non-reacting turbulent flow are predicted and compared to experimental data. Investigations are conducted to study the effects of surrounding environment properties on the velocities, dispersion, and evaporation of a relatively volatile spray fuel that featured a wide range of Stokes numbers. The simulations are performed in the framework of Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes equations along with the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach in which 12 different classes of the dispersed phase. The phase transition is modeled by the Langmuir-Knudsen law that accounts for non equilibrium effects based on a consistent determination of the molar mass fraction on the droplet surfaces. For the droplet dispersion, the Markov sequence model is improved by adding a correction drift term to the fluid fluctuation velocity at the parcel position along the droplet trajectory. This correction term aimed at accounting for the non-homogeneity effects in the turbulent flow. The combustion is captured using the Bray-Moss-Libby model that is extended to account for the partially premixed spray combustion. The chemistry is described with the flamelet model using a recent detailed reaction mechanism that involves 84 species and 409 reactions for which the Lewis number is not set to the unity. Mean droplet velocities for reacting and non-reacting test cases are compared with experimental data. Good agreement is observed. The spray is interacting with the nozzle edge developing new classes and relatively dense region. Hence the RMS-velocities close to the nozzle exit plan demonstrate discrepancies. The droplets group combustion effect is found to be important in the modeling of the burning velocity which influences the flame propagation. Reasonable agreements between the numerical and the experimental results are also observed in the spray flux and temperature profiles.