Electrical Fracture Diagnostics for Metal Bodies in a Gas Flow

New results of studying the electrical aspects of metal body fracture in a gas flow are obtained. The basis of the investigations and the diagnostic method developed is a fundamentally new effect discovered by the authors: most of the microparticles formed when metal specimens (rods) fracture have the same (positive) electric charge. When the specimen is immersed in a gas flow, the charged particles formed are carried out by the flow into the ambient space and the electric field generated by the particles can be recorded by special probe-antennas. The electric signals produced by fracturing rods made of different metals immersed in a high-temperature jet of combustion products are measured. An approximate theoretical dependence of the total charge on the particles formed as a result of fracture on the strength characteristics of the rod material is obtained.     

Turbulence measurements in the inlet plane of a centrifugal compressor vaneless diffuser

Detailed flow measurements at the inlet of a centrifugal compressor vaneless diffuser are presented. The mean 3-d velocities and six Reynolds stress components tensor are used to determine the turbulence production terms which lead to total pressure loss. High levels of turbulence kinetic energy were observed in both the blade and passage wakes, but these were only associated with high Reynolds stresses in the blade wakes. For this reason the blade wakes mixed out rapidly, whereas the passage wake maintained its size, but was redistributed across the full length of the shroud wall. Peak levels of Reynolds stress occurred in regions of high velocity shear and streamline curvature which would tend to destabilize the shear gradient. Four regions in the flow are identified as potential sources of loss - the blade wake, the shear layers between passage wake and jet, the thickened hub boundary layer and the interaction region between the secondary flow within the blade wake and the passage vortex. The blade wakes generate most turbulence, with smaller contributions from the hub boundary layer and secondary flows, but no significant contribution is apparent from the passage wake shear layers.     

Optical vortex tracking studies of a horizontal axis wind turbine in yaw using laser-sheet, flow visualisation

 Experimental studies have been conducted on a 0.9 m diameter, horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) placed in the open jet of a closed return wind tunnel. The turbine was tested in a three blade and a two blade configuration. The power coefficient of the turbine was measured and wake flow studies conducted for a range of yawed flows by tilting the rotor plane at various angles up to 30° to the incident wind direction. The motion of the shed vorticity was followed using laser-sheet flow visualisation with the overall wake deflection being measured. The results were compared with theoretical predictions and with studies conducted elsewhere. Received: 24 October 1996 / Accepted: 16 May 1997     

Evolution of jets effusing from inclined holes into crossflow

The turbulent flow structure and vortex dynamics of a jet-in-a-crossflow (JICF) problem, which is related to gas turbine blade film cooling, is investigated using the particle-image velocimetry (PIV) technique. A cooling jet emanating from a pipe interacts with a turbulent flat plate boundary layer at a Reynolds number Re_∞ = 400,000. The streamwise inclination of the coolant jet is 30° and two velocity ratios (VR = 0.28, VR = 0.48) and two mass flux ratios (MR = 0.28, MR = 0.48) are considered. Jets of air and CO₂ are injected separately into a boundary layer to examine the effects of the density ratio between coolant and mainstream on the mixing behavior and consequently, the cooling efficiency. The results show a higher mass flux ratio to enlarge the size of the recirculation region leading to a more pronounced entrainment of hot outer fluid into the wake of the jet. Furthermore, the lateral spreading of the coolant is strongly increased at a higher density ratio. The results of the experimental measurements are used to validate numerical findings. This comparison shows an excellent agreement for mean velocity and higher moment velocity distributions.     

自然超空泡与尾喷流相互作用的数值模拟

认识带尾喷流和自然超空泡的水下高速航行体流体动力特性并发展其预报与控制方法仍是水动力学领域极具挑战性的课题．本研究采用CFD方法对尾喷流和自然超空泡之间的相互作用进行了数值研究．针对发动机欠膨胀超音速喷流,采用现有实验结果验证了基于两方程湍流模型的二维轴对称流动数值模型的可靠性．尾喷流在空气和蒸汽环境中流动的数值计算结果表明,由于蒸汽环境中背压较低,欠膨胀尾喷流无法及时形成压缩波,使得蒸汽环境中尾喷流的过膨胀区和气相扩散区的体积比空气中大;尾喷流很难形成规则的激波格栅,波系结构相对简单．针对携尾喷流的平头航行体超空泡流状态的数值模拟结果表明,尾喷流注入超空泡后迅速充满航行体周围的空腔区域;尾喷流与超空泡尾迹区域形成的回射流相互作用最终导致超空泡断裂,断裂过程中伴随着燃气泡的下泄现象;受空泡壁面约束,尾喷流难以在狭窄的超空泡空腔内完全膨胀,尾喷流的激波波系结构有显著的变化：在喷嘴附近受到压缩,在远离喷嘴区域受到超空泡水汽掺混的破坏;空泡内压强基本维持在饱和蒸汽压附近,没有显著增加．     

Theory of Disappearance of the Electric Signal Induced by an Aircraft Jet Engine in the Afterburner Regime

Electrical aspects of aircraft jet engine operation are considered. A phenomenon previously observed experimentally, namely, the disappearance of the engine current and alternating electric signal induced by the engine jet in the afterburner regime, is explained. It is shown that this phenomenon results from the detachment of electrons from negative ions when the gas temperature in the afterburner increases. This leads to an increase in the effective conductivity of the gas. As a result, the engine current circuit is closed on the internal duct walls and engine charging becomes insignificant.A physico-mathematical model of the electrical processes in the afterburner is formulated and model problems are solved.     

Towards multi-fidelity simulation of flows around an underwater vehicle with appendages and propeller

Flow around a real-life underwater vehicle often happens at a high Reynolds number with flow structures at different scales from the boundary layer around a blade to that around the hull. This poses a great challenge for large-eddy simulation of an underwater vehicle aiming at resolving all relevant flow scales. In this work, we propose to model the hull with appendages using the immersed boundary method, and model the propeller using the actuator disk model without resolving the geometry of the blade. The proposed method is then applied to simulate the flow around Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) suboff. An overall acceptable agreement is obtained for the pressure and friction coefficients. Complex flow features are observed in the near wake of suboff. In the far wake, the core region is featured by a jet because of the actuator disk, surrounded by an annular region with velocity deficit due to the body of suboff.     

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     

Diffusion and Electrical Processes in the Turbulent Boundary Layer and in the Neighborhood of the Stagnation Point

The problem of electric current (engine current) formation in aircraft jet engine ducts as a result of the development of electrical diffusion boundary layers on the surfaces of the duct and internal engine components is investigated. It is assumed that the outer flow containing electrons and positive ions is quasi-neutral and that the electrical quasi-neutrality is violated (and the electric engine current develops) in the wall flow zone as a result of the difference between the electron and ion diffusion coefficients. The problem of the development of an electrical diffusion boundary layer inside the turbulent gasdynamic boundary layer on a plane surface is formulated and solved. The engine current distribution along the duct is found for various values of a turbulent viscosity on the boundary of the gasdynamic boundary layer which affect the laminar-turbulent transition point.The electrical diffusion processes that occurs when an electrically quasi-neutral hydrodynamic stream impinges on a plane surface (simulation of the flow in the neighborhood of a stagnation point) is studied. In this case the Navier-Stokes equations have a self-similar solution. It is shown that the system of electrohydrodynamic equations also has a self-similar solution. The electrical parameter fields are determined and the engine current is found on the basis of this solution.     

Similarity with the outflow of strongly unexpanded jets into a hypersonic wake

The article discusses the outflow of a nonviscous gas from a strongly unexpanded supersonic nozzle into a supersonic wake. Under the assumption that the radius of the outlet cross section of the nozzle is negligibly small in comparison with the characteristic dimensions of the jet, expressions are obtained for the transverse and longitudinal dimensions of the jet, as well as similarity criteria determining the dimensionless gasdynamic functions. The satisfaction of the similarity criteria was verified by comparison with numerical calculations. Similarity with the outflow of strongly unexpanded jets was discussed in [1–3], where, specifically, the characteristic dimension of the flow was determined. In [4] it was demonstrated that the experimentally observed structure of the jet can be best described with the introduction of two characteristic dimensions, longitudinal and transverse. The effective construction of these two characteristic dimensions for the case of nonviscous outflow into a flooded space was carried out in [5], in which it was shown that using the longitudinal and transverse dimensions the geometries of the flow and the gasdynamic parameters are found to depend on the adiabatic index of the outflowing gas and on a parameter formed from the integral characteristics of the nozzle. The present work is a generalization of the results of [5] for the outflow of a jet into a hypersonic wake.     

模拟火箭引射混合特性的实验研究

 专门设计了可用于研究箭基组合循环发动机(RBCC)在起动阶段 (Ma=0)所使用的引射火箭性能的实验装置. 作为初步试验，研究了不 同工况的引射热喷流(一次流)和被引射空气(二次流)之间混合的演变、 发展过程，找出不同来流条件下影响引射性能的主要参数，为最终探 明引射火箭的最佳工作条件打下基础，同时根据试验结果提出了促进 一、二次流混合的可行方案，便于下一步深入研究.     

聚能射流对固体火箭发动机的冲击起爆

为研究聚能金属射流对固体火箭发动机的冲击响应,开展了聚能装药空射实验及某尺寸发动机在无防护情况下的射流冲击实验,使用高速摄影仪记录了爆炸响应过程,并测量了不同距离及方向的空气超压和破片速度。利用AUTODYN有限元计算软件对实验过程进行了数值模拟,通过调整流固耦合的网格大小,避免了耦合泄漏。实验结果表明,火箭发动机受到射流冲击后,会发生剧烈爆炸,推进剂完全反应,破片速度达4 700 m/s以上,距离发动机爆炸中心1 m处的空气超压达到19.78 MPa,爆炸中心温度达到3 000 ℃以上,该推进剂爆炸能量略高于常规炸药。模拟结果显示,射流以头部速度7 000 m/s的速度冲击发动机壳体后,射流头部的尖端被严重烧蚀,且速度降至约5 600 m/s;推进剂在受到射流侵彻1～2 mm后,发生剧烈反应;爆炸冲击波以球形沿圆柱孔装药传播,并通过圆柱形中心孔冲击另一侧推进剂,发生装药的二次冲击起爆,同时伴有回爆现象,在推进剂中心的高斯点出现了3次超压波峰;距离发动机中心1 m处3个高斯点的平均空气压力峰值为18.75 MPa,与实验结果吻合较好。     

Investigation of electrogasdynamic jet behind a source of charged particles

We have investigated theoretically and experimentally a submerged jet emerging from a source of charged particles (corona-producing system). Simplest scaling laws are established for the distribution of the electric parameters in a unipolarly charged gas jet in the case of grounded and insulated sources. It is shown that the current from a grounded source and the floating potential to which an insulated system is charged depend strongly on the ambient conditions. Methods of decreasing the floating potential were investiated experimentally. The distributions of the local electric parameters in the jet were measured using a probe method. The propagation of viscous unipolarly-charged jets and the phenomenon of electric wind formation were investigated in [1, 2] and [2–5], respectively. The distinguishing features of the flows considered in the article consisted of their organization (blowing of a jet of uncharged gas over the corona-producing system), absence of walls to limit the flow, and the weak influence of electrostatic forces on the gas motion. The developed setup has made it possible to simulate the processes of accumulation of electric charge on a body as a result of the escape of a jet stream.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 3–13, September–October, 1971.In conclusion, the authors thank G. M. Bam-Zelikovich for useful discussions.     

Magnetogasdynamic generation of electrical energy in models of aircraft with a high-speed jet engine

The possibility of generating electric power in a plane model of an integral high-speed hydrogen-burning jet engine by mounting a magnetogasdynamic (MHD) generator at the combustion chamber exit is discussed. Attention is concentrated on clarifying the effect of MHD energy extraction from the stream on the aircraft’s thrust characteristics. The internal and external flows are simulated numerically. The two-dimensional supersonic gasdynamic flow inside the engine (in the air-intake, combustion chamber, MHD generator, and nozzle) and the supersonic flow past the aircraft are described on the basis of the complete averaged system of Navier-Stokes equations (in the presence of turbulence), which includes MHD force and heat sources, a one-parameter turbulence model, the electrodynamic equations for an ideal segmented MHD generator, and the equations of the detailed chemical kinetics of hydrogen burning in air. The numerical solution is obtained by means of a computer program that uses a relaxation scheme and an implicit higher-order version of the Godunov method. It is shown that MHD electric power generation can be realized without disturbing the positive balance in the relation between the thrust and the drag of the aircraft with the engine operating with allowance for the MHD drag, but with some loss of effective thrust.     

Model of Formation of the Electric Current in Aircraft Jet Engine Ducts

A possible mechanism of formation of electric currents (engine currents) in aircraft engine jets (with subsequent charging of the aircraft) is investigated. This mechanism is a result of the presence of electrons and ions at concentrations of 10⁷–10¹⁰cm^-3 in the gas flow in the engine duct. The electrons and ions are formed in the fuel combustion chamber as a result of chemo- ionization reactions. The wall flow zones in which the electrical quasi-neutrality of the medium is violated are considered. In these zones a nonzero normal component of the electric current is formed on the wall surface and a streamwise electric current develops in the duct. A general functional dependence of the engine current on the basic dimensionless parameters is obtained on the basis of similarity theory and dimensional analysis. Within the framework of electrical diffusion boundary layer theory a model problem of formation of the maximum possible engine current is formulated. A universal system of equations and boundary conditions, which contains no dimensionless parameters, is obtained and investigated. The engine current is qualitatively estimated for real engines and the calculation results are compared with the experimental data obtained under airfield conditions.     

电场作用下流动聚焦的实验研究

通过在流动聚焦的同轴液-气射流区域施加电场, 开展了电场力和气动力共同作用下锥形以及带电射流的不稳定性特性实验研究. 实验在精密设计的流动聚焦装置上完成, 分析了外部电压、气体压力降和液体流量等主要控制参数对流动聚焦过程的影响, 获得了锥形的振动模式和稳定模式及其之间的转换, 得到了射流的滴模式、轴对称模式、共存模式和非轴对称模式及其转换并定量分析了电场对射流尺寸参数的影响. 结果表明, 相比于单一的流动聚焦, 该方法能够增强锥形的稳定性, 促进液体射流雾化, 减小颗粒的直径, 因此在科技领域和工程实际中具有重要的应用价值.      

Compressible air flow through a collapsing liquid cavity

We present a multiscale approach to simulate the impact of a solid object on a liquid surface: upon impact a thin liquid sheet is thrown upwards all around the rim of the impactor while in its wake a large surface cavity forms. Under the influence of hydrostatic pressure the cavity immediately starts to collapse and eventually closes in a single point from which a thin, needle‐like jet is ejected. The existing numerical treatments of liquid impact either consider the surrounding air as an incompressible fluid or neglect air effects altogether. In contrast, our approach couples a boundary‐integral method for the liquid with a Roe scheme for the gas domain and is thus able to handle the fully compressible gas stream that is pushed out of the collapsing impact cavity. Taking into account that air compressibility is crucial, since, as we show in this work, the impact crater collapses so violently that the air flow through the cavity neck attains supersonic velocities already at cavity diameters larger than 1 mm. Our computational results are validated through corresponding experimental data. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Flow behavior of high-temperature flue gas in the heat transfer chamber of a pilot-scale coal-water slurry combustion furnace

The flow characteristics of high-temperature flue gas are important in the heat transfer of coal-water slurry（CWS） combustion furnaces.The flow field of a 250 kg/h vertical-type slag tap cyclone furnace was non-intrusively investigated,using two-dimensional particle-image velocimetry（2D PIV）.The method was verified using traceable fly ash particles in high-temperature flue gas.The flow field of the flue gas was analyzed with a time-averaged method,based on which the effects of excess air ratio and loading were investigated.The flue gas separated by a gas separator maintained good rigidity near the furnace wall,rather than eroding the heating surface.Numerical simulations validated the reliability of PIV under the actual circumstances within the furnace.This study provides guidelines for applying 2D PIV in analyzing flue gas in thermal test boilers.     

Experimental investigation on the flow around a simplified geometry of automotive engine compartment

In the current sustainable development context, car manufacturers have to keep doing efforts to reduce the aerodynamic drag of automotive vehicle in order to decrease their CO₂ and greenhouse gas emissions. The cooling airflow, through the engine compartment of vehicles, contributes from 5 to 10% to the total aerodynamic drag. By means of simplified car geometry, equipped with an engine compartment, the configurations that favor a low contribution to total drag are identified. PIV (particle image velocimetry) velocity measurements in the wake of the geometry allow explaining these drag reductions. Besides, the cooling flow rate is also assessed and gives indications on the configurations that favor the engine cooling.     

横流冲击射流尾迹涡结构的实验研究

本文采用LIF（激光诱导荧光）流动显示和PIV（粒子图像速度场仪）测量对横流冲击射流的尾迹涡结构进行了实验研究。水槽实验是在三种流速比和两种冲击高度实验工况下进行的。由实验结果可得到两种明显的尾迹涡结构、，即射流尾迹涡和横流尾迹涡。横流冲击射流中形成的主要尾迹涡结构主要依赖于流速比。本文还对横流冲击射流近区范围内射流尾迹涡和横流尾迹涡的形成机理和演化特征进行了分析。