脉冲爆震发动机性能分析

本文发展了一种新的脉冲爆震发动机性能分析模型,考虑了流体阻力和油珠直径对爆震波速度、压力及脉冲爆震发动机比冲的影响。性能分析模型计算结果与试验结果比较表明,当进行了两相流和流体阻力影响修正后,两者较好。     

混合室结构对PDE平均推力影响研究

采用推力壁压力积分法和推力传感器测量法对采用3种不同混合室结构的PDE平均推力进行了试验研究。结果显示,相同工况下,推力壁压力积分法得到的平均推力比推力传感器测量值大。随着工作频率的提高,推力传感器测量值与推力壁压力积分值的比值逐渐增加。现有试验工况下,各种混合室下的推力传感器测量值相差不大,混合室2略大于混合室3,而推力壁压力积分值有较大差异,混合室3的推力壁压力积分值显著大于混合室1和2。     

膨胀式空气涡轮火箭最大状态调节规律与性能分析

为了阐明进气预冷膨胀式空气涡轮火箭发动机在最大状态下的部件匹配规律和性能特点,基于ε—NTU法建立了换热有效度随工况改变的预冷器模型,完成了氢燃料发动机的性能仿真与分析。增大涡轮前压力、燃料流量,同时减小尾喷管喉道和出口面积,可实现压气机工作点沿等物理转速线由堵塞区向喘振边界移动,压气机压比及燃空比均增大。在此过程中,发动机若在低马赫数工作,尾喷管内燃气总压、总温升高使推力增大;在近堵塞区域,压比迅速增大导致比冲上升;在近喘振区域,压比增大减缓,燃空比的上升导致比冲下降。若在高马赫数工作,高温米流使压气机工作于低折合转速区域,工作点在等物理转速线上由堵塞区向喘振边界移动时,燃空比增加补偿了空气流量下降导致的推力衰减,总推力基本保持不变;由于低折合转速下压比增大减缓,增大的燃空比使比冲下降。     

进气预冷富燃预燃混排涡扇发动机热力循环

为满足高超声速飞行器对高比冲和大推力发动机的需要,提出了一种可重复使用的进气预冷富燃预燃混合排气涡扇发动机(Pre-cooled and Fuel-rich Pre-burned Mixed-flow Turbofan,PFPMT)热力循环。PFPMT发动机的特点是增大内涵空气进气预冷程度,内涵压气机为富燃燃气发生器提供空气作为氧化剂,内涵空气与预冷器出口燃料混合燃烧产生富燃燃气,驱动涡轮、带动内涵压气机与风扇增压,风扇外涵空气与涡轮出口排气在主燃烧室中掺混燃烧,产生高温燃气由喷管产生推力。对发动机热力循环进行了参数化分析,发动机比冲随着压气机压比的增大而增加,尤其是随着风扇压比增加的更为明显;单位推力主要随风扇压比增加而增加,受内涵压比影响较小。发动机地面的比冲与单位推力分别可以达到4500 s与900 N·s/kg以上;在Ma=5.0飞行条件下,发动机比冲与单位推力在3500 s与1100 N·s/kg以上。     

引射器入口形状对PDE的性能影响实验

对具有两种不同进气口形状的脉冲爆震发动机(PDE)引射器增推性能进行了实验研究.实验采用汽油为燃料,空气为氧化剂.文章设计了六组具有不同直径,不同引射器入口形状的圆柱型引射器.实验采用力传感器法对具有圆形和收敛形入口形状的引射器的增推性能进行了实验研究.结果发现脉冲爆震发动机加引射器后的增推性能均有明显的改善.在引射器长径比一定的情况下,采用收敛型进气口的引射器普遍比采用圆形进气口结构的引射器增推效果明显.当引射器位于主爆震管的上游时,直径比为2.5引射器相对其它引射器具有更高的推力增益,最大可达80.5%.     

一种高频脉冲爆震火箭发动机排气及推力研究

为研究一种高频脉冲爆震火箭发动机(Pulse Detonation Rocket Engine,简称PDRE)的排气及推力特性,开展了相关实验和数值模拟研究。利用高速摄影拍摄了PDRE高频工作下的排气阴影图和尾焰图。构建了PDRE单次工作过程的数值模型,得到了发动机的排气过程和推力特性。结果表明:PDRE在靠近出口端点火,形成向封闭端传播的爆震波。回爆波向出口传播,形成第一次排气;在封闭端反射的压力波传出爆震管,形成第二次排气;两次排气贡献的冲量大小相近。     

微细多孔介质中流动及换热实验研究

本文对空气流过烧结微细多孔介质的流动和对流换热进行了实验研究。分析了不同颗粒直径条件下摩擦阻力系数与等效雷诺数的关系,并通过实验数据拟和得到了渗透率K和惯性常数F。结果表明:当颗粒直径比较大时,摩擦阻力系数的实验结果与计算关联式基本吻合;随着颗粒直径的减小,二者的差别增大。通过实验得到了微细烧结多孔介质内部体积平均对流换热系数,并与已有关联式的计算结果基本吻合。     

换热器预冷的空气涡轮火箭性能分析研究

为了准确地分析以不同燃料为冷质的换热器预冷空气涡轮火箭发动机的性能,本文建立了可考虑工质组分化学平衡与工质热物性随温度和压力变化的热力循环模型。利用该模型分析了以LH2、LCH4和煤油为燃料的发动机循环性能,研究了预热温度、燃气发生器和主燃室出口温度对循环性能的影响。结果表明,换热器预冷能够降低压气机进口温度,减小相同增压比下的压缩功,提高燃料温度,减小推进剂流量,从而减小燃空比,增加比冲;燃料预热温度的提高可减小燃气发生器氧燃比,进而减小燃空比、增大比冲;较低的燃气发生器和主燃烧室出口温度可降低燃空比,提高比冲,但会造成单位推力的下降。同时,研究结果还表明,与LCH4和煤油相比,LH2的比热容与热值的比值最大,采用LH2预冷的发动机的飞行速度和比冲的增幅也最大,说明比热容与热值的比值越大,相应的预冷效果越好,即可依据燃料比热容与热值的比值定性衡量发动机的预冷效果。     

多模式离子推力器输入参数设计及工作特性研究

针对我国小行星探测任务对电推进系统离子推力器设计要求,基于等离子体基本理论建立了多模式离子推力器输入参数与输出特性关系,完成各工作点下屏栅电压、束电流、阳极电流、加速电压,流率等输入参数设计,采用试验研究和理论分析的方法研究了推力器工作特性.试验结果表明:在设计输入参数下,23个工作点推力最大误差小于3%,比冲最大误差小于4%,在功率为289—3106 W下,推力为9.7—117.6 mN,比冲为1220—3517 s,效率为23.4%—67.8%,电子返流极限电压随着推力增加单调减小,最小、最大推力下分别为-79.5 V和-137 V,放电损耗随着功率增大从359.7 W/A下降到210 W/A,并在886 W时存在明显拐点,效率随功率增大而上升,在1700 W后增速变缓并趋于稳定,在轨应用可综合推力器性能、任务剖面要求、寿命,合理设计输入参数区间,制定控制策略.     

火花点火发动机的末端气体自燃及爆震的研究

本文介绍了火花点火发动机的末端气体自燃和爆震研究的结果。作者采用高速摄影方法，通过经改装的二冲程发动机气缸盖上的观察窗，拍摄了燃烧室内末端气体自燃和火焰传播，同时测取了气缸内三个不同位置处的压力曲线。实验结果表明，火花点火发动机的爆震是由末端气体自燃引起的。自燃一般是多点同时发生的，并在极短时间内使末燃混合气体全部燃烧。自燃通常会，但并不总是引起爆震。爆震是以缸内压力振荡的出现、碳烟的形成和爆震发生后产生气体的高速运动为特征的。     

Influence of air pressure on mechanical effect of laser plasma shock wave

The influence of air pressure on mechanical effect of laser plasma shock wave in a vacuum chamber produced by a Nd:YAG laser has been studied. The laser pulses with pulse width of 10ns and pulse energy of about 320mJ at 1.06$\mu $m wavelength is focused on the aluminium target mounted on a ballistic pendulum, and the air pressure in the chamber changes from $2.8\times 10^{3}$ to 1.01$\times $10$^{5 }$Pa. The experimental results show that the impulse coupling coefficient changes as the air pressure and the distance of the target from focus change. The mechanical effects of the plasma shock wave on the target are analysed at different distances from focus and the air pressure.     

Three-dimensional numerical thrust performance analysis of hydrogen fuel mixture rotating detonation engine with aerospike nozzle

The propulsive performance for an H₂/O₂ and H₂/Air rotating detonation engine (RDE) with conic aerospike nozzle has been estimated using three-dimensional numerical simulation with detailed chemical reaction model. The present paper provides the evaluation of the specific impulse (I_sp), pressure gain and the thrust coefficient for different micro-nozzle stagnation pressures and for two configurations of conic aerospike nozzle, open and choked aerospike. The simulations show that regardless of the nozzle, increase the micro-nozzles stagnation pressure increases the mass flow rate, the pre-detonation gases pressure and consequently the post-detonation pressure. This gain of pressure in the combustion chamber leads to a higher pressure thrust through the nozzle, improving the I_sp. It was also found that the choked nozzle increases the chamber time-averaged static pressure by 50–60% compared with the open nozzle, inducing higher performance for the same reason explained before.     

Experimental study of internal flow structures in cylindrical rotating detonation engines

The internal flow structures of detonation wave were experimentally analyzed in an optically accessible hollow rotating detonation combustor with multiple chamber lengths. The cylindrical RDC has a glass chamber wall, 20 mm in diameter, which allowed us to capture the combustion self-luminescence. A chamber 70 mm in length was first tested using C₂H₄O₂ and H₂–O₂ as propellants. Images with a strong self-luminescence region near the bottom were obtained, confirming the small extent of the region where most of the heat release occurs as found in our previous research. Based on the visualization experiments, we tested RDCs with shorter chamber walls of 40 and 20 mm. The detonation wave was also observed in the shorter chambers, and its velocity was not affected by the difference in chamber length. Thrust performance was also maintained compared to the longer chamber, and the short cylindrical RDC had the same specific impulse tendency as the cylindrical (hollow) or annular 70-mm chamber RDC. Finally, we calculated the pressure distributions of various chamber lengths, and found they were also consistent with the measured pressure at the bottom and exit. We concluded that the short-chamber cylindrical RDC with equal length and diameter maintained thrust performance similar to the longer annular RDC, further expanding the potential of compact RDCs.     

Numerical simulation of the operation process and thrust performance of an air-breathing pulse detonation engine in supersonic flight conditions

Multidimensional simulations of the unsteady gasdynamic flow in the duct of an air-breathing pulse detonation engine (ABPDE) operating on propane gas and the flow around it in supersonic flight at Mach numbers M of 3.0 and an altitude of 9.3 and 16 km are performed. It is shown that, at a length and diameter of the duct of 2.12 m and 83 mm, respectively, an ABPDE with an air intake and a nozzle can operate in a cyclic mode at a repetition frequency of 48 Hz, with a rapid deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) occurring at a distance of 5–6 combustion chamber diameters. To determine the thrust performance of the ABPDE in flight conditions, a series of working cycles were simulated with consideration given to the external flow around the engine. Calculations showed that the specific impulse of the ABPDE is approximately 1700 s. This value is much higher than the specific impulse typical of ramjet engines operating on conventional combustion (1200–1500 s) and substantially lower than the specific impulse obtained for the atmospheric conditions at sea level at zero flight velocity (∼2500 s).     

Thrust characteristics of an airbreathing pulse detonation engine in supersonic flight at various altitudes

The main thrust characteristics, such as thrust force, specific impulse, specific fuel consumption, and specific thrust, of a pulse detonation engine (PDE) with an air intake and nozzle in conditions of flight at a Mach number of 3 and various altitudes (from 8 to 28 km above sea level) are for the first time calculated with consideration given to the physicochemical characteristics of the oxidation and combustion of hydro-carbon fuel (propane), finite time of turbulent flame acceleration, and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). In addition, a parametric analysis of the influence of the operation mode and design parameters of the PDE on its thrust characteristics in flight at a Mach number of 3 and an altitude of 16 km is performed, and the characteristics of engines with direct initiation of detonation and fast deflagration are compared. It is shown that a PDE of this design greatly exceeds an ideal ramjet engine in specific thrust, whereas regarding the specific impulse and specific fuel consumption, it is not inferior to the ideal ramjet.     

Thrust characteristics of a pulse detonation engine operating on a liquid hydrocarbon fuel

A demonstrator of a pulse detonation combustion chamber of original design based on a cyclic deflagration- to-detonation transition in a mixture of separately fed liquid hydrocarbon fuel (propane–butane mixture) and air was developed. Fire tests of the demonstrator with an attached air duct, operating frequencies of up to 20 Hz, were performed on a thrust measurement bench. During the tests, wave processes in the gasdynamic duct were monitored and fuel consumption rate and thrust force were measured. At a frequency of operation of the demonstrator within 2–15 Hz, the fuel-based specific impulse was ~1000 s. It is shown that a partial filling of the gasdynamic duct with fuel mixture makes it possible to increase the specific impulse up to ~1100 s.     

Performance enhancement of a pulse detonation rocket engine

Utilizing liquid kerosene as the fuel, oxygen as oxidizer and nitrogen as purge gas, a series of multi-cycle detonation experiments was conducted to improve the performance of pulse detonation rocket engine (PDRE). In order to improve the performance of the engine, it is crucial to develop an effective DDT enhancement device with less flow loss and higher survival in hostile detonation tube; therefore, three spiraling internal grooves were tested. The three spiraling internal grooves were semicircle, square and inversed-triangle grooves, respectively. The results showed that the spiraling internal groove can effectively enhance DDT and prolong the operation time of PDRE. The effect of groove shape on thrust enhancement of PDRE and the optimum length of spiraling groove were then investigated. To improve the detonability of liquid kerosene and prolong the durability of PDRE, experiments on the kerosene preheating based on active cooling were conducted. The results demonstrated that with the aid of fuel preheating, the detonation initiation time for liquid kerosene was noticeably reduced and a fully-developed detonation wave was achieved in the position away from igniter 4.67 times the diameter of the detonation tube. By adding the additive to liquid kerosene, the detonation initiation time from 0.75 ms decreased to 0.34 ms and the detonability of fuel was dramatically improved. Finally, experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of the operating frequency on the detonation parameters, the fill fraction and PDRE performance. The results indicated that detonation pressure and temperature vary with the operating frequency of PDRE, and the fill fraction has a significant influence on the specific impulse of PDRE. With the strategy of partial filling in detonation tube, the specific impulse can be remarkably enhanced.     

脉冲激光与碲镉汞相互作用时的冲量耦合

在激光功率密度为４．０×１０８～５．０×１０９Ｗｃｍ－２的范围内，用冲击摆测量了ＮｄＹＡＧ脉冲激光（波长为１．０６μｍ，脉宽为１０ｎｓ）辐照大气中不同面积的ＨｇＣｄＴｅ样品时的冲量耦合系数。从理论上建立了等离子体爆轰模型，对激光结束后等离子体的膨胀过程进行了比较详细的描述，用此模型计算了不同能量的脉冲激光与不同面积的ＨｇＣｄＴｅ相互作用时的冲量耦合系数，计算值与测量值符合得较好。     

Thrust characteristics of an airbreathing pulse detonation engine in flight at mach numbers of 0.4 to 5.0

Multidimensional calculations are performed to demonstrate that, by its characteristics, the pulse detonation engine (PDE) is a unique type of ramjet propulsion system, which can be used in both subsonic and supersonic aircraft. By a number of examples, it is shown that, in various thrust characteristics, such as the specific impulse, specific fuel consumption, and specific thrust, the PDE substantially exceeds ramjet engines.     

初始点火条件引起的三维旋转爆震波单/双波传播模式

在不同工况下,旋转爆震波能够以单波、双波、多波模式进行传播.但在同一工况下,是否存在不同模式的稳定传播爆震波还有待进一步研究.基于Euler方程,耦合氢气/空气的有限化学反应速率模型,并采用高分辨率的5阶有限差分格式WENO-PPM5离散对流项,对三维旋转爆震波进行了数值模拟.计算结果表明,在同一特定工况下,旋转爆震波能够以两种不同的传播模式稳定传播,即单波模式和双波模式.详细地对比了两种传播模式下的流场特征、爆震波传播特性、推力性能等.在同一工况下,两种传播模式的爆震波周向传播速度相差不多,但双波模式的频率约为单波模式的2倍;双波模式下质量流量、比冲、推力的平均值均略高于单波模式;且双波模式的可燃混气层高度约为单波模式的1/2,这有助于缩小旋转爆震发动机的长度,使之更加紧凑.