Effects of buoyancy on gas-jet diffusion flames: Experiment and theory

Theoretical and experimental research on the effects of buoyancy on gas-jet diffusion flames is described in this paper. Part of this research involves an assessment of existing data obtained under reduced-gravity conditions. The results show that uncertainties in our understanding of flame structure exist and further research is required before reliable predictions of ignition, stabilization and propagation of flames under microgravity conditions can be made. Steady-state and transient theories have been developed and used in the analysis of existing drop-tower data and new data obtained from a stationary experiment involving inverted flames. The result of this research has led to the definition of a microgravity experiment to be performed in space.     

CARS在发动机燃烧场温度和压力测量中的应用研究

根据发动机燃烧诊断的需要，在指出理论相干反斯托克斯喇曼光谱（CARS）与温度和压力的关系后，对液化石油气／空气预混火焰中进行了氮分子CARS测温实验，研究了压力对实验CARS光谱的影响，探索了对湍流场测量十分重要的单脉冲测量技术。结果表明，CARS是一种很有前途的发动机燃烧诊断技术。     

Prediction of turbulent diffusion flames with a four-equation turbulence model

For turbulent flame prediction a four-equation turbulence model consisting of the turbulent kinetic energy, the dissipation rate and the density-velocity correlations using unweighted statistics is suggested. The fluctuating concentrations are taken into account by using Spalding's (1971) equation for the variance of the mixture fraction f and by defining the probability density function of f as beta-function. The thermodynamic model for the combustion of H₂ with air assumes infinitely fast reaction in a global single step. Preliminary results are shown for the calculation of Kent and Bilger (1972) turbulent H₂-air diffusion flame. For this flame with fluctuating density the inclusion of the velocity-density correlations appears to be essential, because they have a strong effect especially on the development of the turbulent viscosity and the mean velocity and mass fraction profiles. Consequently the mean concentrations are in good agreement with the experimental results.     

Laminar dust flames in a reduced-gravity environment

The propagation of laminar dust flames in suspensions of iron in gaseous oxidizers was studied in a low-gravity environment onboard a parabolic flight aircraft. The reduction of buoyancy-induced convective flows and particle settling permitted the measurement of fundamental combustion parameters, such as the burning velocity and the flame quenching distance over a wide range of particle sizes and in different gaseous mixtures. Experimentally measured flame speeds and quenching distances were found in good agreement with theoretical predictions of a simplified analytical model that assumes particles burning in a diffusive mode. However, the comparison of flame speeds in oxygen–argon and oxygen–helium iron suspensions indicates the possibility that fine micron-sized particles burn in the kinetic mode. Furthermore, when the particle spacing is large compared to the scale of the reaction zone, a theoretical analysis suggests the existence of a new so-called discrete flame propagation regime. Discrete flames are strongly dependent on particle density fluctuations and demonstrate directed percolation behavior near flame propagation limits. The experimental observation of discrete flames in particle suspensions will require low levels of gravity over extended periods available only on orbital platforms.     

Calculation of ignition and combustion of a hydrogen jet in air with finite chemical reaction rates

A comparison between two analytical models of a free turbulent mixing of reacting streams with finite chemical reaction rates is presented and the results of calculations compared with experimental data. The substance is a mixture of the inert non-dissociated nitrogen and oxygen that dissociates and reacts with hydrogen.For the first model the local values of flow parameters along the streamlines were provided by the numerical solution of the conservation equations in the boundary layer form for a multicomponent mixture of perfect gases in the von Mises coordinate system. In the course of this analysis the problem was treated by dividing the flowfield into a large number of regions and by solving the Cauchy problem of the conservation equations for each region.The second analytical model was based on the ignition delay to describe the chemistry in the region of pre-ignition. The external air stream was heated by combustion and the influence of the water vapor and the intermediate species on the reaction kinetics in the mixing zone was numerically investigated.The results of calculation are compared with the experimental data with respect to the location of a visible flame edge under combustion of hydrogen jet in the co-current flow.     

多目标多光谱高温仪的研制

根据固体火箭发动机羽焰特征研制了多目标多光谱高温仪。文中介绍了多光谱测温技术及测温仪系统构成。该系统可同时测量羽焰6个目标点的温度,每个目标点均有8个工作波长,可实现对发动机试验时羽焰流场轴向和环向多目标的温度动态测量。     

高金属含量水反应金属燃料稳态燃烧模型

为探索水冲压发动机稳态燃烧机理,以水反应金属燃料在水蒸气环境下的稳态燃烧试验为基础,建立了镁基高金属含量水反应金属燃料稳态燃烧模型,燃料中金属镁含量大于70％.将镁基水反应金属燃料稳态燃烧过程分为惰性加热区、凝相反应区和气相反应区,指出燃面附近气相火焰结构由4部分组成,分别为AP预混火焰、AP/HTPB扩散火焰、AP/...     

Thermochemical closure for high-speed flows

A model for the thermochemical closure in high-speed turbulent flows with nonpremixed reactants is presented, based on relatively lenient assumptions involving, inter alia, equilibrium chemistry, and the ratio ρ/p being pressure-independent. The proposed approach is based on the introduction of a presumed joint pdf of the conserved scalar and an appropriately defined nondimensional enthalpy gap, for which plausible shapes are assumed. The model is applied to a test case concerning a supersonic hydrogen/vitiated air flame for a check of its consistency; results indicate good performance for both the mean and rms of state quantities. The assumption of pressure independence is verified, and an indication of errors involved in overlooking thermochemical closure is also given. An extension to flows involving finite-rate chemistry and differential diffusion is also briefly presented, though requiring a quite extensive flamelet library.     

An experimental study of flame turbulence

An experimental study of the turbulence generated by an enclosed, premixed, propane-air flame has been carried out in a combustion chamber of 25 × 20 cm cross section. Care was taken to reduce any effects of the axial pressure gradient. By suitable changes in the grid geometry, the turbulence intensity and scale of the approach flow were varied independently. The results of these experiments show that a strong link exists between the mechanisms of turbulent flame propagation and flame-generated turbulence. Thus three distinct regions may be identified, each having different characteristics in regard to the effects of turbulence scale on flame-generated turbulence. For each region, a physical mechanism for flame-generated turbulence is proposed. In particular, it is observed that over a wide range of intensity and scale of the approach turbulence, (a) the relative turbulence intensity in the flame zone varies in the range 1–2 times the relative turbulence intensity of the cold flow, (b) in the region of intermediate turbulence levels ( ) the flame-generated turbulence intensity reaches a minimum value which is equal to the approach stream turbulence intensity, (c) the flame-generated turbulence intensity reaches a maximum value when the rate of production of turbulent vorticity is equal to about half its rate of viscous dissipation.     

Numerical modeling of unsteady flame propagation

The problem of the numerical modeling of unsteady flame propagation with large amounts of exothermic heat release has been addressed through the use of a model equation which contains many of the important nonlinearities and difficulties in the problem. The model equation has been solved for a significant variation in Damköhler number with a variety of conventional and new finite-difference procedures. One of the new procedures used was an adaptive grid method which places node points in the region of large temperature gradients where they are necessary for a proper simulation of the phenomena. This adaptive grid procedure does have significant advantages over conventional second and fourth order uniform grid methods for many aspects of the problem. It has been found that conventional methods with relatively few node points are inadequate for flames with high Damköhler number, because of the fact that too few nodes are located in the flame. Further refinement of the adaptive grid method seems feasible, but even in the present form it represents a significant improvement over conventional techniques.     

RBCC燃烧室超声速反应混合层特性的大涡模拟

以飞行马赫数为4.5Ma的RBCC发动机典型工作状态为研究背景,采用大涡模拟研究了支板火箭射流和空气来流形成的超声速反应混合层的掺混燃烧过程,获得了燃烧室内详细的流场结构和流动特征,分析了强射流条件下超声速反应混合层的特性。结果表明由于速度梯度的存在,火箭射流进入燃烧室后与空气来流形成环形剪切层,剪切层内丰富的旋涡结构主导火箭射流和空气来流的掺混燃烧,随着湍流能量的串级输运,化学反应过程中释放的能量将被转化成细观尺度的湍流动能,大尺度旋涡将能量传递给小尺度旋涡并最终耗散,细小尺度的旋涡一方面能够促进燃烧反应物的掺混并强化燃烧过程,另一方面会给化学反应过程带来强烈的脉动,使得局部火焰淬灭,火焰结构表现出明显的非定常性。     

Nonlinear analysis of hydrodynamic instability in laminar flames—II. Numerical experiments

We consider a nonstationary nonlinear integrodifferential equation describing the evolution of a disturbed plane flame front. The following two-dimensional problems are solved numerically: (i) The formation of a wrinkled noncellular laminar flame front under conditions of spontaneous hydrodynamic instability. (ii) The formation of a turbulent cellular flame front under conditions of spontaneous diffusional-thermal instability. (iii) The formation of a turbulent wrinkled-cellular flame front under conditions of spontaneous hydrodynamic and diffusional-thermal instability. We compute the flame front velocity in laminar and turbulent propagation.     

An approach to the autoignition of a turbulent mixture

This paper considers the turbulent homogeneous mixing of two reactants undergoing a one step, second order, irreversible, exothermic chemical reaction with a rate constant of the Arrhenius type. A statistically stationary turbulent velocity field is assumed given and unaffected by mass or heat production due to the chemical reaction. Relative density fluctuations are neglected. A Hopf-like functional formalism is presented, with application to both statistically inhomogeneous and statistically homogeneous flows. Single and double point probability density function differential equations are derived from those functional equations. The limit of very large activation energies is considered; a low degree of statistical correlation between temperature and concentration fields during the ignition period is hypothesized. After making use of the homogeneity assumption a closure problem is still present due to the nonlocalness of the molecular diffusion term. The problem is rendered closed by assuming a Gaussian conditional expected value for the temperature at a point given the temperature at a neighboring point. The closure is seen to preserve very important mathematical and physical properties. A linear first order hyperbolic differential equation with variable coefficients for the probability density function of the temperature field is obtained. A second Damköhler number based on Taylor's microscale turns out to be an important controlling parameter. A numerical integration for different values of the second Damköhler number and the initial stochastic parameters is carried out. The mixture is seen to evolve towards an eventual thermal runaway, the detailed behavior however being different for different systems. Some peculiarities during the ignition period evolution are uncovered.     

空气节流对煤油燃料超燃燃烧室燃烧性能影响

采用非定常数值模拟方法研究了空气节流对煤油燃料超燃冲压发动机燃烧性能的影响,并研究了节流流量和节流撤去时间对节流效果的影响。在发动机入口马赫数2.0、静温656.5K、静压0.125MPa的条件下,无空气节流时发动机下壁面稳焰失败,壁面压力较低;有空气节流时发动机下壁面燃料稳定燃烧,壁面压力较高。空气节流可以有效地提高发动机的推力性能,可以改变发动机的燃烧模态。随着节流流量和节流撤去时间的增加,燃烧越来越剧烈,壁面压力逐渐升高,可能影响进气道的起动。节流可能促使流场产生振荡现象,通过改变节流流量也可以消除振荡现象。     

Experiments on velocity augmentation of spherical flames by grids

Using spherical wire mesh screens with a wire diameter d and a mesh size l, an experimental study was carried out involving homogeneous mixtures of propane/air, ethylene/air, acetylene/air and with oxygen enriched air. Streak photographs of the processes were taken, yielding information on the flame propagation speeds inside and outside the screen. The ratio of the two speeds immediately before and after crossing the screen, α, can be interpreted as practically equivalent (for the same “heat release”) to the ratio of flame velocities relative to the unburned gas, i.e. Values of (α − 1) are correlated with the Reynolds number based on the wire thickness d, density and viscosity of the unburned gas and flame propagation speed inside the wire mesh. The experiments were repeated with two and three spheres of different diameters, e.g. inner screen 9 cm in diameter and outer screen 18 cm in diameter or three screens, 9, 13.5 and 18 cm, respectively. The second screen usually added a factor of 2 on the value of α. The third screen produced very little additional effect. The highest value of α we ever obtained for mixtures with air was about 12 (for acetylene/air). With oxygen enriched air the situation is quite different. If the flame velocity of the laminar flame relative to the unburned gas exceeds 2 m/sec, the value of α may increase up to a level corresponding to detonation.     

对接机构综合试验台温度环境模拟分系统温场优化

为改善某新型对接机构综合试验台温度环境模拟分试验系统的温度和压力均匀性,基于温场特性分析,用三维标准κ-ε模型对系统送风散流装置结构模型进行改进。发现散流装置的送风方式和结构对温度与压力均匀性影响较大。用仿真对散流器进行优化以改善流场,通过增设静压室和布风散流装置,在送风温度不变时可将温场温度均匀度控制在1 K内,压力梯度下降至改进前的0.5%,且改进后的送风结构能较好地满足温场体积变化后的试验要求。     

Menter转捩模型在高超声速流动模拟中的改进及验证

通过压力梯度参数和湍流普朗特数的修正,对Menter等构造的低速经验关系式转捩模型进行了改进,将基于局部信息的Menter转捩模型用于高超声速流动转捩数值模拟。在多个高超声速尖锥转捩流动模拟中,对改进后模型的可靠性进行了检验,算例考核了不同壁面温度、来流湍流度、流向压力梯度等多种流动条件。结果表明,数值计算和风洞试验的壁面温度、温度恢复因子和热流等符合得较好,修正后模型较好地模拟了转捩起始位置和转捩区长度,在高超声速边界层转捩预测中具有一定潜力。     

Cf/BAS复合材料的氧化行为研究

采用热压工艺成功的合成了碳纤维／钡长石复合材料，研究了这种复合材料的氧化行为。结果表明，Ｃｆ／ＢＡＳ复合材料的氧化失重与基体微裂纹有关。基体中的微裂纹提供了氧化性气体的扩散报道从而导致高温下 严重氧化。     

偶氮四唑胍对含催化剂的RDX-CMDB推进剂燃烧性能的影响研究

采用浇注工艺制备了GZT部分取代RDX的系列含催化剂的RDX-CMDB推进剂样品。研究了GZT对含催化剂的RDX-CMDB推进剂的燃速、压强指数及燃烧火焰结构等燃烧性能的影响,对比分析了GZT对含催化剂和不含催化剂的RDX-CMDB推进剂燃烧行为影响不同的原因,并采用DSC实验初步研究了含GZT和催化剂的RDX-CMDB推进剂的热行为。结果发现,GZT对推进剂的火焰温度、火焰的暗区厚度、燃面上的亮点数目、燃烧表面对凝聚相的温度梯度等都呈现一定规律性的影响;在1～10 MPa内,GZT使含催化剂的RDX-CMDB推进剂燃速降低,压强指数升高;热行为研究表明,含催化剂的GZT-RDX-CMDB推进剂的DSC曲线上出现了GZT单独分解峰,且DSC的第一分解峰温随GZT的加入而减小。     

点阵结构空气舵及内部流体热流固耦合研究

开展了钛合金TC4材料激光粉末床熔融(LPBF)工艺研究,在此基础上设计了多孔轻质空气舵模型,并基于有限差分法(FDM),采用三维流固耦合共轭传热数值计算方法,利用流体体积法(VOF)追踪流体自由液面,研究了典型的点阵夹层结构的空气舵内部冷却液动态换热过程的相互影响过程,考虑了冷却液与钛合金材料蒙皮间的耦合传热及湍流换热。结果表明,空气舵的内部流体压强随速度的增加而增加,从而导致流体出口的速度增加。当压强增加到一定程度时,流体的出口以水柱形式喷出。虽然较大的流体速度可以带走较多的热量,但是影响远小于对压强的影响。综合考虑空气舵的服役要求,获得了合适的冷却水入口速度。