Feasibility study of symmetric solution of molecular argon flow inside microscale nozzles

The computational cost of numerical methods in microscopic-scales such as molecular dynamics (MD) is a deterrent factor that limits simulations with a large number of particles. Hence, it is desirable to decrease the computational cost and run time of simulations, especially for problems with a symmetrical domain. However, in microscopic-scales, implementation of symmetric boundary conditions is not straight-forward. Previously, the present authors have successfully used a symmetry boundary condition to solve molecular flows in constant-area channels. The results obtained with this approach agree well with the benchmark cases. Therefore, it has provided us with a sound ground to further explore feasibility of applying symmetric solutions of micro-fluid flows in other geometries such as variable-area ducts. Molecular flows are solved for the whole domain with and without the symmetric boundary condition. Good agreement has been reached between the results of the symmetric solution and the whole domain solution. To investigate robustness of the proposed method, simulations are conducted for different values of affecting parameters including an external force, a flow density, and a domain length. The results indicate that the symmetric solution is also applicable to variable-area ducts such as micro-nozzles.     

喷管对脉冲爆轰发动机性能的影响

采用热力学循环分析方法, 从理论上推导了脉冲爆轰发动机(pulse detonationengine, PDE)不完全膨胀条件下的热效率公式, 并定量考察了不同燃烧室初始温度下热循环效率随出口压力比的变化, 研究表明气体膨胀越完全, 工质的热循环效率越高. 应用数值模拟方法分别研究了收缩-扩张喷管和扩张喷管, 比较了它们对PDE推力和比冲的影响, 考察了它们在PDE各个循环阶段的作用. 此外, 还分析了收缩-扩张喷管收缩段引起的反射激波的影响, 理论上反射激波会降低PDE热循环效率和比冲, 但当反射激波马赫数小于1.5时, 对PDE热循环效率的影响很小, 其正面作用占优.      

展向喷嘴湍流横向射流大涡模拟及其统计分析

采用大涡模拟方法数值模拟了展向椭圆喷嘴的湍流横向射流,对其大尺度结构的时空演化和湍流脉动速度场的时间序列分析、频谱分析、PDF分析以及时、空截面上的统计平均特性进行分析.结果表明,在射流出口附近的下游核心区中速度脉动剧烈,显现出明显的湍流特征.除了三维涡环脱落、扭曲、变形、摆动所对应频率之外,还存在很宽的湍流基频,它与在喷嘴出口附近产生的三维涡环的时空演化过程密切相关.由于展向椭圆喷嘴的湍流横向射流中的三维涡环快速脱落和强相互作用导致射流尾迹中的强湍流脉动,展向椭圆喷嘴湍流横向射流的PDF空间演化特征结构复杂.在射流核心区的湍流偏应力变化平缓,其统计平均值分布接近左右对称.展向椭圆喷嘴的湍流横向射流脉动速度场具有极为复杂的统计行为,与流向椭圆喷嘴相比具有更好的掺混能力.     

Assessment of gas thermodynamic characteristics on fluidic thrust vectoring performance: Analytical,experimental and numerical study

The cross injection in a supersonic flow is an issue encountered in several aerodynamic applications such as fuel injection in scramjet combustor, missile control, drag reduction and thrust vector control. In a recent work, an analytical model has been presented to calculate the fluidic thrust vectoring performance for a supersonic axisymmetric nozzle. The model is able to take into account both the injected gas thermodynamic properties and the geometrical nozzle characteristics. The analytical model has been successfully validated following the cold air flow experimental analysis, in the case of fluidic thrust vectoring applied to conical nozzle. The aim of this work is to show how far the injected gas thermodynamic properties, different from that of the nozzle main flow, could influence the fluidic thrust vectorization parameters.In this work, the experimental performance of the fluidic thrust vectoring concept, using numbers of gases as injectant, has been qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. Schlieren visualization, force balance and wall pressure measurements were used in the case of a truncated ideal contour nozzle. The experimental results are compared to the numerical and analytical findings.Performance analysis are conducted and basic conclusions are drawn in terms of thermodynamic gas properties effect on the fluidic thrust vector system. The primary effect was related to the gas molecular weight and its specific heat ratio product. It is observed that for fixed injection conditions, the vectoring angle is higher when the injected gas molecular weight and specific heat ratio product is less than that of the primary gas. For a given mission of the launcher, it can be concluded that the mass of the embedded gas, used for the fluidic vectorization system, can be significantly reduced, depending on its molecular weight and specific heat ratio.     

一种单级入轨火箭发动机概念--气动塞式喷管发动机

综述了研制新一代可重复使用的航天运载器推进系统的需求和目标,介绍了一种单级入轨的火箭发动机概念──气动塞式喷管发动机,并给出了有关气动塞发动机的概念分析、研究进展和工作展望．     

Stochastic approaches to uncertainty quantification in CFD simulations

This paper discusses two stochastic approaches to computing the propagation of uncertainty in numerical simulations: polynomial chaos and stochastic collocation. Chebyshev polynomials are used in both cases for the conventional, deterministic portion of the discretization in physical space. For the stochastic parameters, polynomial chaos utilizes a Galerkin approximation based upon expansions in Hermite polynomials, whereas stochastic collocation rests upon a novel transformation between the stochastic space and an artificial space. In our present implementation of stochastic collocation, Legendre interpolating polynomials are employed. These methods are discussed in the specific context of a quasi-one-dimensional nozzle flow with uncertainty in inlet conditions and nozzle shape. It is shown that both stochastic approaches efficiently handle uncertainty propagation. Furthermore, these approaches enable computation of statistical moments of arbitrary order in a much more effective way than other usual techniques such as the Monte Carlo simulation or perturbation methods. The numerical results indicate that the stochastic collocation method is substantially more efficient than the full Galerkin, polynomial chaos method. Moreover, the stochastic collocation method extends readily to highly nonlinear equations. An important application is to the stochastic Riemann problem, which is of particular interest for spectral discontinuous Galerkin methods.     

小口径轴对称收缩喷嘴射流冲击大平板噪声特性的实验研究

为研究小口径喷嘴冲击射流的噪声特性，测定了3mm口径的轴对称收缩喷嘴在各种压比情况下产生的亚音速和超音速射流冲击坚固大平板产生的噪声。发现噪声在空间呈近似四瓣分布，当喷嘴与平板距离减小时，噪声指向壁射流下游的瓣到增强，反之，噪声指向喷嘴上游的瓣得到增强。噪声随喷嘴距平板距离的增加呈增强的趋势，在距平板一定距离内有锯齿现象。噪声随喷嘴压比的增加而增强，相应于各种工况，存在一不同的压比值，此压比之前，噪声随压比的增大而迅速提高，但有起伏现象，在此压比之后，噪声平缓地随压比的增大而增强。     

Experimental investigation of the effect of nozzle numbers on Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube performance

The present study investigates the effects of the orifice nozzle number and the inlet pressure experimentally on the cooling performance of the counter flow-type vortex tube. The energy generation has been conducted using a stream-tek generator (model GNMD-KIT) with different numbers of nozzles (2, 3, and 6), an aspect ratio of 1:6, and an inner diameter of 7.5 mm. In the experiments, for each of the orifices, inlet pressures have been adjusted from 200–600 kPa. The energy separation investigated here focuses on the cold temperature difference and coefficient of performance for cooling. The experimental results concluded in this article prove that the greatest effect of nozzle number is for three nozzles, and hence, that nozzle number could affect the energy separation efficiently. A comparison of the present experiments with other published works has been conducted. An analytical study of the characteristics equation has been carried out to evaluate the best correlation of the ratio of cold temperature difference to the inlet temperature as a function of pressure, cold mass fraction, and nozzle number.     

Statistics of Gaussian Speckles with Enhanced Fluctuations

Some first-order statistics of speckle fields obeying the complex Gaussian probability density are investigated with the special emphasis on a possibility for the speckle contrast to exceed unity. It is shown that such enhanced fluctuations of speckle fields are generated when the probability density of the complex amplitude is non-circular with the vanishing mean. This means that Gaussian speckles having the contrast of unity are not necessarily fully developed speckles. Some practical situations producing such enhanced fluctuations in speckle fields are discussed.     

旋转射流冷却数值模拟研究

使用 ANSYS FLUENT 软件和 RNG k-ε 湍流模型分别研究了十字形、内十字形和花形结构的螺旋喷 嘴内部流动特性和耦合面换热特性。模拟结果研究表明,螺旋角 θ 越小喷嘴出口速度越高,喷出的水流更集中, 水流运动轨迹越清晰且规律越明显。同一工况下,θ=30°的花形喷嘴的换热效率和换热均匀性均优于其余两种喷嘴的值;耦合面努塞尔数 Nu 最大值会随着雷诺数 Re 不断增加而逐渐远离射流中心处(r/d_j=0,d_j 为喷嘴当量直径); 随着靶距 H 逐渐增大,Nu 逐渐减小,旋流效果逐渐减弱。当 H=2d_j、4d_j 时,Nu 最大值位于 r/d_j=1 处;当 H=6d_j 时,Nu 最大值位于射流中心处。