Ground-based investigations on phase-moving phenomenon with space sublimation cooling for lunar exploration missions

The lunar surface is a typical vacuum environment, and its harsh heat rejection conditions bring great challenges to the thermal control technology of the exploration mission. In addition to the radiator, the sublimator is recommended as one of the promising options for heat rejection. The sublimator makes use of water to freeze and sublimate in a porous medium, rejecting heat to the vacuum environment. The complex heat and mass transfer process involves many physical phenomena such as the freezing and sublimation phase change of water in the porous medium and the movement of the phase-change interface. In this paper, the visualized ground-based experimental approaches of space sublimation cooling were presented to reveal the moving law of three-phase point and the growth phenomenon of ice-peak and icicle in microchannels under vacuum conditions. The visualized experiments and results prove that the freezing ice is divided into the porous ice-peak and the transparent icicle. As the sublimation progresses, the phase-change interface moves downward steadily, the length of the ice-peak increases, but the icicle decreases. The visualized experiments of space sublimation cooling in the capillary have guiding significance to reveal the sublimation cooling mechanism of water in the sublimator for lunar exploration missions.     

Investigation of pressure wave behaviors in the rotational speed effects on a pressure-exchange wave rotor

A wave rotor is suitable for compact and efficient pressure-exchange between gas flows.This work measured the circumferential pressure distribution of the rotor/stator interfaces and utilized a CFD method to simulate the unsteady pressure waves. The experimental and CFD results showed some slopes in the circumferential pressure distributions, and the slopes indicated the traces of specific unsteady pressure waves. Such traces varied regularly if the rotational speed varied within a range from-11...     

非结构嵌套网格中的一种改进型径向基函数插值方法

非结构混合网格拓扑关系相对复杂,在嵌套边界区域进行流场信息插值传递容易有精度的损失。利用已知的解析函数作为插值样本,对线性插值(LINE)、距离倒数权重插值(WA)、逆二次径向基函数插值(IQ)、Wendland暞sC2径向基函数插值四种方法的精度进行对比,筛选出精度较高的C2径向基函数;提出一种改进的C2径向基函数插值方法,通过调整径向基函数的作用半径来控制插值矩阵条件数,进而消除使用径向基函数插值在嵌套边界区域出现的数值奇性问题;选用MD30P/30N 多段翼与三维AEDC典型外挂物分离模型对该插值方法进行验证。结果表明:改进后的径向基函数插值方法能够有效消除嵌套边界区域数值奇性,同时计算收敛速率更快,插值精度更高。