涡轮导向器对旋转爆轰波传播特性影响的实验研究

为了研究涡轮导向器对旋转爆轰波传播特性的影响,以氢气为燃料,空气为氧化剂,在不同当量比下开展了实验研究.基于高频压力传感器及静态压力传感器的信号,详细分析了带涡轮导向器的旋转爆轰燃烧室的工作模式以及涡轮导向器对非均匀不稳定爆轰产物的影响.实验结果表明:在当量比较低时,爆轰燃烧室以快速爆燃模式工作;逐渐增大当量比,爆轰燃烧室开始以不稳定旋转爆轰模式工作;继续增大当量比,爆轰燃烧室以稳定旋转爆轰模式工作,且旋转爆轰波的传播速度和稳定性均随当量比的增大逐渐提高.爆轰波下游的斜激波与涡轮导向器相互作用,涡轮导向器对压力振荡的幅值具有明显的抑制作用,但对压力振荡频率的影响较小.随着当量比的增大,涡轮导向器上下游的静压均同时增大,经过涡轮导向器的作用,涡轮下游静压明显降低.     

JF12激波风洞高Mach数超燃冲压发动机实验研究

针对高Mach数（Ma ≥ 7）超燃冲压发动机高气动阻力下的燃烧组织问题,提出一种双突扩燃烧室结构方案.使用数值模拟方法考察了射流与双突扩燃烧室组合方式的混合燃烧特性.设计了双突扩超燃冲压发动机模型,在力学研究所JF12长试验时间激波风洞内,开展了Ma=7.0和Ma=9.5的氢燃料点火和燃烧试验对比.在风洞有效试验时间100 ms内,实现了Ma=7.0和Ma=9.5超燃冲压发动机的成功点火与稳定燃烧.在Ma=7.0情况下,进气道采用三维压缩,燃烧室入口设计Mach数Ma_c=2.5,壁面压力分布实验结果显示燃烧放热靠近燃烧室扩张段上游;在Ma=9.5情况下,进气道采用二维压缩,燃烧室入口设计Mach数Ma_c=3.5,由于燃烧室流动速度特别高,燃烧放热靠近燃烧室扩张段下游.      

Dual/scram-mode combustion limits of ethylene and surrogate endothermically-cracked hydrocarbon fuels at Mach 8 equivalent high-enthalpy conditions

This paper examines the scram/dual-mode combustion limits of hydrocabon fuels within a Mach 8, scramjet combustor. Flight-equivalent flows were delivered to the axisymmetric, cavity combustor via a reflected shock tunnel. Two scramjet fuels were examined: ethylene and a surrogate mixture representing endothermically cracked n-dodecane. Combustion modes were examined via static pressure sensors and through both chemiluminescence imaging, and planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) of the OH combustion radical in the combustor exhaust plume. Ethylene-fuelled experiments developed scram-mode combustion under reduced fuelling conditions, experiencing shock wave dominated flowfields. OH PLIF diagnostics indicated such combustion modes developed a ring-like structure of combustion products, primarily axisymmetrically adjacent to the combustor wall. Increased fuelling anchored combustion downstream of the fuel injector, while further increases instigated dual-mode combustion. In this mode, subsonic combustion regions combine with the supersonic coreflow to permit the transfer of information upstream with substantially increased pressure encountered. Optical diagnostics indicate broadly asymmetric, unsteady combustion features. The surrogate mixture representing endothermically cracked n-dodecane experienced rapid onset from no-combustion (optically confirmed) to fully developed dual-mode combustion at critical fuelling rates. OH PLIF signals and chemiluminescence of this fuel were weaker than comparable ethylene cases, indicating potential differences in combustion pathways.     

支板凹腔一体化超燃冲压发动机实验研究

本文针对以凹腔支板一体化燃烧室为基本结构的超燃冲压模型发动机在自由射流风洞中的性能,主要研究了燃料在不同位置喷入时,燃烧室几何结构/气动性能/燃料混合及燃烧特性的相互耦合,以及对发动机推力性能的影响.结果表明支板与凹腔的一体化在合理配置燃料分布情况下可以获得较好的发动机性能.     

烧蚀支板对超燃冲压发动机燃烧室性能的影响

为了提高超燃冲压发动机燃烧室的性能,本文提出了燃料喷注支板与烧蚀支板组合的燃烧室新方案,并研究了新方案对超燃冲压发动机燃烧室性能的影响。相比于单燃料喷注支板方式而言,加入烧蚀支板后,虽然燃烧室内的总压恢复系数有所下降,但燃烧室内燃料与空气的混合效率、燃烧效率均有显著提高,燃烧效率的提高弥补了燃烧室内总压损失所带来的机械能损失,使得燃料喷注支板和烧蚀支板组合方式下的燃烧室比冲高于单燃料喷注支板时的比冲。     

Investigation on the flameholding mechanisms in supersonic flows: backward-facing step and cavity flameholder

Abstract  

As effective devices to extend the fuel residence time in supersonic flow and prolong the duration time for hypersonic vehicles cruising in the near-space with power, the backward-facing step and the cavity are widely employed in hypersonic airbreathing propulsive systems as flameholders. The two-dimensional coupled implicit RANS equations, the standard k-ε turbulence model, and the finite-rate/eddy-dissipation reaction model have been used to generate the flow field structures in the scramjet combustors with the backward-facing step and the cavity flameholders. The flameholding mechanism in the combustor has been investigated by comparing the flow field in the corner region of the backward-facing step with that around the cavity flameholder. The obtained results show that the numerical simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental data, and the different grid scales make only a slight difference to the numerical results. The vortices formed in the corner region of the backward-facing step, in the cavity and upstream of the fuel injector make a large difference to the enhancement of the mixing between the fuel and the free airstream, and they can prolong the residence time of the mixture and improve the combustion efficiency in the supersonic flow. The size of the recirculation zone in the scramjet combustor partially depends on the distance between the injection and the leading edge of the cavity. Further, the shock waves in the scramjet combustor with the cavity flameholder are much stronger than those that occur in the scramjet combustor with the backward-facing step, and this causes a large increase in the static pressure along the walls of the combustor.     

超燃冲压发动机推进性能理论分析

超燃冲压发动机的正推力问题和超声速燃烧的稳定性问题是制约超燃冲压发动机发展的两个关键气动物理问题.虽然经过50多年的研究,但是目前国内外对这两个关键问题的机理还没有研究清楚.文章首次将CJ爆轰理论应用于超燃冲压发动机推进性能分析,给出了这两个关键气动问题的理论分析结果.分析结果表明,燃烧室入口空气静温对发动机的推进性能产生重要影响.当爆轰波的爆速大于隔离段内空气来流的速度时,会向隔离段上游传播,导致发动机不起动.飞行Mach数Ma=6~8是超燃发动机的临界不稳定范围,飞行Mach数Ma>9,超声速燃烧将变得稳定.      

Combustion characteristics of a dual-mode scramjet combustor with cavity flameholder

Combustion characteristics of a laboratory dual-mode ramjet/scramjet combustor were studied experimentally. The combustor consists of a sonic fuel jet injected into a supersonic crossflow upstream of a wall cavity pilot flame. These fundamental components are contained in many dual-mode combustor designs. Experiments were performed with an isolator entrance Mach number of 2.2. Air stagnation temperatures were varied from 1040 to 1490 K, which correspond to flight Mach numbers of 4.3–5.4. Both pure hydrogen and a mixture of hydrogen and ethylene fuels were used. High speed imaging of the flame luminosity was performed along with measurements of the isolator and combustor wall pressures. For ramjet mode operation, two distinct combustion stabilization locations were found for fuel injection a sufficient distance upstream of the cavity. At low T₀, the combustion was anchored at the leading edge of the cavity by heat release in the cavity shear layer. At high T₀, the combustion was stabilized a short distance downstream of the fuel injection jet in the jet-wake. For an intermediate range of T₀, the reaction zone oscillated between the jet-wake and cavity stabilization locations. Wall pressure measurements showed that cavity stabilized combustion was the steadiest, followed by jet-wake stabilized, and the oscillatory case. For fuel injection close to the cavity, a hybrid stabilization mode was found in which the reaction zone locations for the two stabilization modes overlapped. For this hybrid stabilization, cavity fueling rate was an important factor in the steadiness of the flow field. Scramjet mode combustion was found to only exist in the cavity stabilized location for the conditions studied.     

Experimental investigation of ethylene/air combustion instability in a model scramjet combustor using image-based methods

The combustion instabilities of supersonic combustion were investigated experimentally in a laboratory-scale scramjet combustor with a cavity flame holder. Ethylene was injected transversely from an orifice to the supersonic flow of Mach 2 with a stagnation temperature of 1900 K and a total pressure of 0.37 MPa. The dynamic pressure, CH* chemiluminescence and shadowgraph images were measured with a pressure sensor and a high-speed video camera. Dynamic pressure was analyzed by fast Fourier transform, and time-resolved CH* chemiluminescence images were modally decomposed by the sparsity-promoting dynamic mode decomposition (SP-DMD). The results indicated that two combustion instabilities were observed for cavity shear-layer stabilized combustion and the oscillation between jet-wake stabilized and cavity shear-layer ram combustions for the power spectral density (PSD) of pressure. In the case of the combustion instability of cavity shear-layer stabilized combustion, a dominant peak of approximately 128 Hz was observed for the PSD of pressure. This instability corresponded to an entire flame oscillation of the cavity shear-layer stabilized combustion, which was validated by the SP-DMD and a low rank reproduction with 10 modes. This was driven by a fuel injection oscillation in the injection orifice. In the case of oscillation between the jet-wake stabilized and the cavity shear-layer ram combustions, peaks around 1600 Hz were observed for the PSD of pressure. This mechanism was also explained by the SP-DMD modes and a low rank reproduction using within 10 modes. The DMD and shadowgraph images indicated that the vortex formed by a separation of the boundary layer induced a strong jet-wake flame, resulting in the temporal thermal choke followed by cavity shear-layer stabilized ram combustion. The data-driven approach with SP-DMD clarified the combustion instability mechanisms of the supersonic combustion in detail.     

Towards the development of an efficient low-NOx ammonia combustor for a micro gas turbine

Recent studies have demonstrated stable generation of power from pure ammonia combustion in a micro gas turbine (MGT) with a high combustion efficiency, thus overcoming some of the challenges that discouraged such applications of ammonia in the past. However, achievement of low NOx emission from ammonia combustors remains an important challenge. In this study, combustion techniques and combustor design for efficient combustion and low NOx emission from an ammonia MGT swirl combustor are proposed. The effects of fuel injection angle, combustor inlet temperature, equivalence ratio, and ambient pressure on flame stabilization and emissions were investigated in a laboratory high pressure combustion chamber. An FTIR gas analyser was employed in analysing the exhaust gases. Numerical modeling using OpenFOAM was done to better understand the dependence of NO emissions on the equivalence ratio. The result show that inclined fuel injection as opposed to vertical injection along the combustor central axis resulted to improved flame stability, and lower NH₃ and NOx emissions. Numerical and experimental results showed that a control of the equivalence ratio upstream of the combustor is critical for low NOx emission in a rich-lean ammonia combustor. NO emission had a minimum value at an upstream equivalence ratio of 1.10 in the experiments. Furthermore, NO emission was found to decrease with ambient pressure, especially for premixed combustion. For the rich-lean combustion strategy employed in this study, lower NOx emission was recorded in premixed combustion than in non-premixed combustion indicating the importance of mixture uniformity for low NOx emission from ammonia combustion. A prototype liner developed to enhance the control and uniformity of the equivalence ratio upstream of the combustor further improved ammonia combustion. With the proposed liner design, NOx emission of 42?ppmv and ammonia combustion efficiency of 99.5% were achieved at 0.3?MPa for fuel input power of 31.44?kW.     

Numerical analysis of self-excited tangential combustion instability for an MMH/NTO rocket combustor

This study presented the numerical simulation of the tangential combustion instability in a hypergolic liquid bipropellant rocket thrust chamber, which applied fuel liquid film cooling method and unlike impinging injectors. The liquid spray was modeled using Lagrangian approach, while the gas was regarded as Euler phase. Stress-blended eddy simulation and finite rate/eddy–dissipation model were adopted to simulate the turbulent combustion process. Consistent with the experiment results, this work successfully simulated the transformation of tangential combustion instability from standing mode to spinning mode. The mean pressure, amplitude and frequency of limit cycle oscillation were in good agreement with the experiment. There was a detailed analysis about the flow field, Rayleigh index, and driving mechanism of the combustion instability. It was found that the oscillation began with hot spots of heat release rate due to the interaction between the spray of impinging injectors and cooling fuel jet. More than that, cooling fuel jet also contributed to drive the oscillation. In the standing mode, injectors in the inner and outer rings drive the oscillation together, while the spinning mode is mainly driven by injectors in the outer ring. The pressure wave is subsonic and its Mach number is close to 1. It was shown that the pressure wave contained a complex structure divided into three parts. This led to the in-phase of the pressure along the axial direction and the double-peak characteristic of the downstream pressure signal. Besides, a positive feedback closed-loop system associated with periodic oxidizer/fuel ratio was believed to sustain the combustion instability. The oscillation can be maintained when pressure, heat release and oxidizer/fuel ratio are coupled together. The analysis results indicate that rotating detonation is an implication to tangential combustion instability.     

Experimental Diagnosis on Combustion Characteristic of Shock Wave Focusing Initiation Engine

A shock wave focusing initiation engine was assembled and tested in an experimental program. The effective pyrolysis rate of the pre-combustor was evaluated over a range of supplementary fuel ratio in this paper. Results highlight two operational modes of the resonant cavity: (1) pulsating combustion mode, (2) stable combustion mode. The appearance of the two combustion modes is jointly affected by the flow and the structural characteristic value of the combustion chamber. This paper uses images, time-frequency analysis, and nonlinear time series analysis methods to identify and distinguish these two combustion modes. It is believed that the interaction between the combustion chamber and the supply plenum is the probable reason for different combustion modes. The experiment has found that structural parameters and import flow parameters have an impact on the initiation of the combustion chamber. Increasing the injection pressure can appropriately broaden the fuel-rich boundary of initiation. Low equivalence ratio and high injection pressure can also appropriately increase the combustion working frequency in a small range. From the perspective of pressure utilization, under the premise of ensuring successful initiation, injection pressure should not be too high.     

旋转爆震燃烧室与涡轮导向器组合实验研究

旋转爆震涡轮发动机正获得广泛的关注,但旋转爆震燃烧室出口存在着高频的压力波动,压力波动会降低涡轮的工作效率并减小涡轮的工作寿命.基于旋转爆震波的传播特点,开展了旋转爆震燃烧室与涡轮导向器组合结构的实验研究.燃料为H₂,由位于燃烧室前端的120个小孔喷入燃烧室;氧化剂为空气,由径向环缝喷入燃烧室.在燃烧室内起爆旋转爆震波后,爆震产物直接流入导向器内.研究结果表明,随当量比的增加,燃烧室内爆震波的传播速度呈先增大后减小的趋势.在导向器出口仍存在与燃烧室内旋转爆震波同主频的振荡压力,但相对于导向器前的振荡压力,出口压力振幅减小了约64%.旋转爆震波传播速度的相对偏差先减小后增大,并且爆震波传播越稳定,其速度损失越小.      

新建高焓激波风洞Ma=8飞行模拟条件的实现与超燃实验

针对高Mach数超燃冲压发动机实验能力空缺问题,基于航天十一院新建的FD-21高能脉冲风洞,进行了Ma=8超燃飞行条件的模拟能力设计与调试,获得了总焓2.9 MJ/kg、总压11.01 MPa实验条件,实现了Ma=8、高度31 km飞行条件的风洞模拟.在此基础上,研发了匹配的氢燃料供应及喷注时序控制系统,设计了超燃冲压发动机模型,开展了超燃冲压发动机模型自由射流应用性风洞实验,获得了氢气燃料与空气、氮气超声速气流耦合流动作用下的实验模型壁面压力数据.在当量比近似一致条件下,空气来流对应的燃烧室壁面压力明显高于氮气来流情况,表明氢气在1 ms有效实验时间内完成了与超声速空气来流的混合、点火与燃烧,获得燃烧释热特性,确认了在FD-21高能脉冲风洞开展高Mach数超燃实验是切实可行的,为后续研究奠定了良好的基础.      

Three-dimensional numerical simulation of the characteristics of a ramjet power plant with a continuous-detonation combustor in supersonic flight

Multi-variant three-dimensional numerical simulations demonstrate the feasibility of the continuous- detonation process in an annular combustor of a ramjet power plant operating on hydrogen as fuel and air as oxidant in conditions of flight at a Mach number of M ₀ = 5.0 and an altitude of 20 km. Conceptual schemes of an axisymmetric power plant, 400 mm in external diameter and 1.3 to 1.5 m in length, with a supersonic intake, divergent annular combustor, and outlet nozzle with a frusto-conical central body are proposed. Calculations of the characteristics of the internal and external flows, with consideration given to the finite rate of turbulent-molecular mixing of the fuel mixture components with each other and with the combustion products, as well as the finite rate of chemical reactions and the viscous interaction of the flow with the bounding surfaces, have shown that, in these flight conditions, the engine of such a power plant has the following performance characteristics: the thrust, 10.7 kN; specific thrust, 0.89 (kN s)/kg; specific impulse, 1210 s; and specific fuel?consumption 0.303 kg/(N h). In this case, the combustor can operate with one detonation wave traveling in the annular channel at an average velocity of 1695 m/s, which corresponds to a detonation wave rotation frequency of 1350 Hz. It is shown that, an operating combustor has regions with subsonic flow of detonation products, but the flow is supersonic throughout its outlet section.     

Application and theoretical analysis of the flamelet model for supersonic turbulent combustion flows in the scramjet engine

In the framework of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulation, supersonic turbulent combustion flows at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) combustor and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) integrated scramjet engine are numerically simulated using the flamelet model. Based on the DLR combustor case, theoretical analysis and numerical experiments conclude that: the finite rate model only implicitly considers the large-scale turbulent effect and, due to the lack of the small-scale non-equilibrium effect, it would overshoot the peak temperature compared to the flamelet model in general. Furthermore, high-Mach-number compressibility affects the flamelet model mainly through two ways: the spatial pressure variation and the static enthalpy variation due to the kinetic energy. In the flamelet library, the mass fractions of the intermediate species, e.g. OH, are more sensible to the above two effects than the main species such as H₂O. Additionally, in the combustion flowfield where the pressure is larger than the value adopted in the generation of the flamelet library or the conversion from the static enthalpy to the kinetic energy occurs, the temperature obtained by the flamelet model without taking compressibility effects into account would be undershot, and vice versa. The static enthalpy variation effect has only little influence on the temperature simulation of the flamelet model, while the effect of the spatial pressure variation may cause relatively large errors. From the JAXA case, it is found that the flamelet model cannot in general be used for an integrated scramjet engine. The existence of the inlet together with the transverse injection scheme could cause large spatial variations of pressure, so the pressure value adopted for the generation of a flamelet library should be fine-tuned according to a pre-simulation of pure mixing.     

微穿孔板抑制不稳定燃烧的声学数值仿真

为了研究微穿孔板吸声结构对不稳定燃烧的抑制作用,采用高精度的计算气动声学(Computational Aeroacoustics,CAA)方法开展时域下的数值仿真。首先对带有压力时滞模型的三维声学扰动方程进行求解,给出发动机不稳定燃烧的频率信息。然后通过解析模型分析微穿孔板吸声结构的阻抗特性,并由多自由度宽频阻抗模型模拟微穿孔板对该不稳定频率的抑制作用。仿真捕捉到的不稳定燃烧频率与地面试车测得的频率相一致。表明采用的计算气动声学方法及相应模型可以准确地捕捉不稳定燃烧的频率信息,并分析微穿孔板对不稳定燃烧的抑制作用,对于工程上快速预测不稳定燃烧具有一定意义。     

Diode laser-based detection of combustor instabilities with application to a scramjet engine

Fluctuations in temperature non-uniformity along the line-of-sight of a diode laser absorption sensor in a model scramjet are found to precede backpressure-induced unstart (expulsion of the isolator shock train). A novel detection strategy combining Fourier analysis of temperature time series to determine low-frequency heat release fluctuations with simultaneous measurements of multiple absorption features of H₂O to identify temperature non-uniformities was applied to the scramjet combustor. Time-resolved absorption is measured using wavelength modulation spectroscopy for three transitions chosen with different temperature-dependent absorption characteristics. The line-of-sight (LOS)-averaged temperature inferred from the ratio of absorption from one pair of transitions is highly sensitive to low-temperature non-uniformities along the absorption path while the other ratio is less sensitive. The fraction of fluctuations in the range 1 < f < 50 Hz is determined from short-time Fourier transforms (STFTs) of the measured temperatures from both transition pairs. The ratio of these fractions provides a robust measure of the low-frequency fluctuations in temperature non-uniformities in the flow. Measurements in a scramjet test rig indicate a distinct increase in low-frequency fluctuations of low-temperature gases several seconds before the isolator shock train is forced out of the inlet by heat addition to the combustor. Though the precise cause of the fluctuations remains unknown, the detection method shows promise for use in control schemes to avoid back pressure-induced unstarts.     

新一代航空发动机燃烧室

针对新一代高油气比(0.051及以上)航空发动机燃烧室,本文提出头部采用化学恰当比直接混合燃烧设计方案.对于新一代高压比(70及以上)低排放民用航空发动机燃烧室,由于其自着火延迟时间极短,因此采用贫油直接混合燃烧,而不能采用预混合预蒸发燃烧.本文提出了一种贫油直接混合低排放燃烧室方案,其燃油空气模由简单的压力雾化喷嘴和...     

隔离段激波串流场特征的试验研究进展

高超声速推进技术是国际前沿研究, 其中双模态超燃冲压发动机的发展受到极大关注. 作为超燃冲压发动机的重要部件, 隔离段对发动机的性能和高超声速飞行的实现至关重要, 其中所涉及的流动机理问题也极为复杂. 自从高超声速飞行的概念被提出和论证以来, 相关的理论、试验和仿真研究不断取得进展, 但是对其中的机理问题研究仍有待进一步深入. 本文将从试验研究的角度回顾并综述近年来超燃冲压发动机隔离段的研究进展, 结合精细流动测试技术(Nano-tracer Planar Laser Scattering, NPLS)的发展分析了隔离段流场特征, 包括了激波串流场复杂的三维时空结构特点、湍流特性、非线性迟滞运动、不启动流场特征以及激波前缘检测等. 从风洞设备、隔离段设计、测试技术等方面对隔离段的试验研究进行了分类比较和论述, 对今后隔离段试验研究提出了建议.