航天器对流换热地面降压模拟的临界压力准则

航天器密封舱在地面模拟试验中常通过降压法抑制自然对流的影响,但降压比的选择 往往缺乏定量准则,这使得自然对流的抑制效果得不到保证。使用数值模拟方法确定临 界压力比,以几种典型航天器密封舱内的流动换热情况为例,分析了不同Gr／Re 2 数和压力比下密封舱内的流动换热情况。得到了舱内气体温度分布和对流换热系数。通 过比较空间情况和地面情况的计算结果,分析了自然对流给流动换热带来的影响,给出了判 断临界压力的准则式,并给出了临界Gr／Re 2数。结果表明：临界压力 的准则关系和密封舱的形状和内部结构无关。
     

不同尺度下相变材料熔化过程自然对流影响分析

为了解自然对流对固液相变传热的影响,采用有限容积法对重力条件下矩形腔内相变材料熔化过程进行了数值模拟。通过改变矩形腔的尺寸,分析了不同尺度对高温壁面平均Nu数(Nu数)及相变材料温度场、速度场的影响。结果表明:随着尺度增加,自然对流作用增强,Nu数逐步增大,液相区流动从稳定向周期振荡过渡,且流线越来越不规则。     

V型皱褶芯材夹层结构强迫对流传热与热应力分析

V型皱褶芯材夹层结构与强迫对流冷却相结合,可应用于高超声速飞行器或大功率电子器件承载和散热的多功能设计。文章采用数值仿真方法对强迫对流条件下V型皱褶芯材夹层结构的换热及其产生的热应力进行研究,获得了相应的速度场、温度场及结构热应力分布。结果表明:强迫对流条件下,V型皱褶芯材夹层结构的换热性能明显提高,同时导致较大的压力损失。流体速度场随着几何构型的改变而发生周期性的变化,在结构偏折处波峰一侧流速达到最大,对流换热得到增强;沿着冷却液流动方向,结构与冷却液的温度逐渐升高,并伴随着周期性的波动;皱褶芯材夹层结构的整体换热能力随着入口流速的增大而增强。热流输入侧的面板热应力和变形均较大,结构皱褶部位存在应力集中。     

Convection of liquid with internal heat release in a rotating container

The convection of heat-generating fluid in a rotating horizontal cylinder is experimentally investigated. The threshold of convection excitation, the structure of convective flows and the heat transfer in the cylinder depending on the heat release capacity, liquid viscosity and aspect ratio of the cavity are studied. It is found that the average convection is excited by the thermovibrational mechanism —the gravity force, rotating in the cavity frame, produces the oscillations of non-isothermal fluid relative to the wall, which in turn result in excitation of mean convective flows. It is shown that the structure of convective flows depends on the dimensionless velocity of rotation. At relatively low rotation velocity the convection develops in the form of a periodic system of vortices regularly distributed along the cylinder axis. The threshold of excitation (critical value of vibration parameter) of three-dimensional vortex structures grows with rotation velocity. Above some definite rotation velocity the convection develops as two-dimensional rolls parallel to the axis of rotation. The threshold of two-dimensional structures excitation does not depend on the rotation velocity. Besides the structure of thermal convective flows the analysis of the relatively weak currents generated by the inertial waves below the threshold of convection is performed.     

Investigation of Thermal Convection and Low-Frequency Microgravity by the DACON Sensor aboard the MirOrbital Complex

The DACON instrument for studying the convection caused by low frequency microaccelerations aboard spacecraft is described. The convection sensor serves as a measuring element of this instrument. This is a cylindrical cavity filled with air, where two crossed differential thermocouples are located. The thermocouple junctions lay on two mutually perpendicular lines parallel to the bases of the cylinder and crossing at its axis. The distances from the junctions to this axis are equal. The lateral surface of the cylinder is thermally insulated, the difference of temperatures on its bases being kept constant. One of the tasks for the sensor is to prepare the data for checking the adequacy of mathematical models of fluid convection under weightlessness conditions and for obtaining quantitative characteristics of the microgravitational medium. The results of ground-based tests of the DACON instrument and the results of experiments with it aboard the Mirstation are presented.     

Floating zone experiments with germanium crystals in sounding rockets

A floating zone experiment with a coated surface was performed in a sounding rocket. Analysis of the segregation showed that elimination of free surfaces decreased the convection in the liquid zone. Analysis of radial segregation during floating zone crystal growth under different experimental conditions demonstrated high sensitivity to interface shape and to convection. Under conditions of very weak convection, microgravity and coated surfaces, dopant concentration fields giving severe radial segregation were built up.     

Experiments on the transition from the steady to the oscillatory Marangoni-convection of a floating zone under reduced gravity effect

The transition from the steady to the oscillatory Marangoni convection in a floating zone under reduced influence of the gravity is visualized by means of the already proved method of “light-cut-technique”. The Marangoni convection is caused by a negative temperature gradient from the upper to the lower copper plug, whose diameter is kept to a small magnitude of 3 mm Φ to obtain a small Bond's number. By this way the micro-gravity effect in respect to the Marangoni convection can be simulated. From the visualization and the simultaneous measurements of the local temperature the range of the Marangoni number for the transition is determined. A strong correlation exists between the observed period of the oscillation of the branching streamline between the two vortices on the plane with the axis of the floating zone on one hand and the period of the temperature oscillation on the other hand. A model conception for the physical mechanism is introduced to understand this oscillatory instability.     

组合发动机微细通道氦加热器设计与流动换热

氦加热器是预冷组合发动机中重要的换热器之一,其原理是利用燃气燃烧的热量提高氦气做功能力,进而提升整个循环系统运行效率.研究中首先设计了蛇形管式、瓦片式、辐射式三种微细通道氦加热器.其次,基于FLUENT15.0软件对微细通道氦加热器管内外的对流换热系数和流动阻力进行了研究.对比模拟结果和经典关联式的计算结果,确定了适用...     

A micro-gravity simulation of the Marangoni convection

An experimental verification of Marangoni convection in the liquid inter-space between two-coaxial discs is carried out at reduced gravity effect using small Bond's number obtained by choice of small characteristical diameter. Silicon oil is used as working fluid. The upper or lower disc can be heated electrically. The flow is visualized by illuminating fine powder of Titandioxide in the fluid with a vertical “light cut” of about 0.1 mm thickness, which is produced by a laser with a cylindrical glass rod and a microscope objective. Photographs and moving pictures are taken from a TV monitor. From these the vortex configuration and the velocity distribution can be determined, which would be expected for the Marangoni convection in the zero-g condition, for example in the spacelab.     

气体循环热控技术在卫星热设计中的应用

简要概述了气体循环对流主动热控技术在卫星热控设计中的应用，然后结合卫星热控设计，对该设计方法进行理论分析，从理论上定性阐释应用该设计方法时，影响卫星热控设计的主要参数，如星外表涂层，卫星内部接触热阻和导热热阻，星内对流换热系数等，然后对卫星进行热试验，验证热控设计，并得出相应经验数据。     

Significance of fluid dynamics aspects for material science experiments

Fluid dynamics aspects for material science experiments may be treated with respect to purely space experiments and preparatory experiments on the ground. Preparatory experiments are necessary because little experience of material science experiments in space is available. Preparatory experiments on earth are needed in the field of surface tension and viscosity, surface layers, forming and positioning of liquids. Concerning space experiments the following subjects may be treated: convection phenomena, capillarity and kinetics of liquids. Convection phenomena (Marangoni convection) can be studied without disturbance by gravitation which has a considerable technological relevance. Under space conditions the kinetics of fluids may be studied in large model structures with changing capillarity and wetting properties.     

Evolution of salt finger convection with steady wind shear

In oceanographics situations where salt fingers may be an important mechanism for the transport of heat and salt in the vertical direction, velocity shears may also be present. Salt finger convection is analogous to Bénard convection in that the kinetic energy of the motions is obtained from the potential energy stored in the unstable distribution of a stratifying component. On the basis of the thermal analogy it is of interest to discover whether salt fingers are converted into two-dimensional sheets by wind shear, and how the vertical fluxes of heat and salt are changed by wind shear. Salt finger convection under the effect of steady wind shear is theoretically examined in this paper. The evolution of instability developing in the presence of a vertical density gradient disturbance and the horizontal Couette flow is considered near the onset of salt fingers under a moderate rate of shear. We use velocity as the basic variable and solve the pressure Poisson equation in terms of the associated Green function. Growth competition between the longitudinal rolls (LR) and the transverse rolls (TR), whose axes are, respectively, in the direction parallel to and perpendicular to the Couette flow, is investigated by the weakly nonlinear analysis of coupled-mode equations. The results show that the TR mode is stable under a small wind shear and the LR mode is stable for a higher wind shear.     

G-300, the first French Getaway Special microgravity measurements of fluid thermal conductivity

On Earth thermal conductivity measurements on liquids are difficult to perform because thermal motions due to convection. In microgravity the convection due to buoyancy is evanescent and we expect a strong lowering of Rayleigh and Nusselt numbers. Three low viscosity liquids are selected to carry out the measurements: distilled water (standard) and two silicone oils. We use a modified “hot plate” method with a simplified guard ring, the lowering of convective motions let us to use in the experimental cells larger interplate distances and/or temperature differences than in earth measurements so the accuracy must be improved. Comparisons between Earth and orbit results may help to understand the convection occurrence in our cells. G-300 payload is cantilevered from the experiment mounting plate (EMP) and it includes: four struts, an intermediate plate, a bottom plate with four bumpers, a battery box, an electronic rack and six experimental cells assembled in twin-packs thermally coupled with the EMP. Thermal, vibration and EMI tests have proved that the design satisfies the Nasa requirements and acceptance is in progress.     

Influence of freezing rate oscillations and convection on eutectic microstructure

As discussed in our review paper (Wilcox, W. R. and Regel, L. L., Microgravity Quarterly, 1994, 4, 147–156), the influence of microgravity on eutectic microstructure has been rather erratic and largely unexplained. Directional solidification in microgravity sometimes coarsened the structure, sometimes made it finer, and sometimes, even on the same system, had no measurable effect. Theoretical models predicted no influence of the weak buoyancy-driven convection that occurs in the vertical Bridgman technique on earth. Thus, we hypothesized that freezing rate fluctuations due to irregular convection might be responsible. For example, with a fibrous microstructure an increase in freezing rate must cause new fibers to form, either by branching or by nucleation. A decrease in freezing rate would cause fibers to terminate by overgrowth of the matrix phase. If the kinetics of fiber formation differs from that for fiber termination, an oscillatory freezing rate would cause the average fiber spacing to deviate from that at a steady freezing rate. We have been investigating this hypothesis both experimentally and theoretically. Vertical Bridgman experiments were performed on the MnBi–Bi eutectic with freezing rate oscillations caused by periodic electric current pulses passed through the material. With increased current amplitude, more and more grains exhibited irregular microstructures. Of the grains with continued quasi-regular rod structure, the microstructure became finer. This result was contrary to that expected from our hypothesis for this system. Numerical modeling also predicted that an oscillatory freezing rate should yield a finer microstructure. It was also predicted that freezing interface oscillations should cause the average melt composition at the freezing rate to deviate from the eutectic. This results in the formation of a composition boundary layer of sufficient thickness that it would become sensitive to convection. Hence we have arrived at a revised hypothesis. On earth, irregular convection causes freezing rate fluctuations that change the interfacial melt composition, leading to a thick composition boundary layer. Convection interacts with this boundary layer to change the interfacial melt composition, thereby altering the response of the system to freezing rate fluctuations.     

Some aspects of continuous flow electrophoresis in microgravity

Zone electrophoresis is a highly efficient method of separating biological products. It is based on the differences of mobilities of ionized particles in an electric field. During the separation complications arise due to electro-osmosis or thermal convection generated by Joule heating.This paper analyses the hydrodynamical running of a continuous flow zone electrophoresis cell and shows the influence of specific parameters on the separation.The modelling of the flow structure of the buffer solution is developed. The equations and the corresponding boundary conditions are solved by finite difference method. The model established provides knowledge of the hydrodynamical perturbations generated by electro-osmosis and thermal free convection. The case of microgravity is considered.     

多组分含化学反应火箭燃气射流流场的数值模拟

推导了适合多组分含化学反应火箭燃气射流场对流项的ＴＶＤ数值格式及流动求解的组合格式，给出了某火箭燃气自由射流流场的计算结果。     

Gravitational Convection of a Liquid Mixture in a Horizontal Cylindrical Gap at Moderate Grashof Numbers

Weak concentration convection which arises in the process of diffusion of impurities into the solvent filling a gap between two coaxial cylinders is studied experimentally. It is found that convective motion in the range of Grashof numbers 10³–5 × 10⁴ has a clear boundary-layer character. Near the inner porous cylinder, which is a source of impurity, a diffusion boundary layer passing into a two-dimensional convective plume is formed. The data on the structure and thickness of this layer are presented depending on the integral flux of impurity. The prospects of making an experiment in order to discover concentration convection onboard an orbital station are discussed.     

The effect of surfactant redistribution on combined gravitational and thermocapillary interactions of deformable drops

Trajectories are calculated by the boundary-integral method for two contaminated deformable drops under the combined influence of buoyancy and a constant temperature gradient at low Reynolds number and with negligible thermal convection. The surfactant is bulk-insoluble, and its coverage is determined by solution of the time-dependent convective-diffusion equation. Two limits are considered. For small drops, the deformation is small, and thermocapillary and buoyant effects are of the same order of magnitude. In this case, comparison is made with incompressible surfactant results to determine when surfactant redistribution becomes important. Convection of surfactant can lead to elimination of interesting features, such as the possibility of two different-sized drops migrating with fixed separation and orientation, and can increase the difference between the drops' velocities. For larger drops, deformation can be significant, leading to smaller or larger drop breakup, and buoyant motion dominates thermocapillarity. In this case, convection of surfactant can increase deformation and offset previously observed inhibition of breakup for clean drops when the driving forces are opposed. This effect is less pronounced for larger size ratios. By extension, redistribution of surfactant can enhance deformation-increasing tendencies seen with driving forces aligned in the same direction.     

高空飞行环境中液体运载火箭底部热环境研究

采用数值模拟和飞行测试验证相结合的方法对液体运载火箭高空对流/辐射耦合换热问题开展系统深入研究。基于燃气多组分输运Navier-Stokes方程、热辐射方程、Realizable k-ε两方程湍流模型,建立了高空含自由流的运载火箭燃气喷流流动模型。辐射模型采用离散坐标法(DOM),空间离散采用二阶迎风TVD格式,对多个典型飞行高度火箭底部热流进行大型并行计算,将数值结果与试验数据进行广泛对比,验证了计算模型的精度和有效性。数值研究表明,火箭底部辐射热流在刚起飞阶段达到最大值,随着飞行高度上升,辐射热流逐渐降低,火箭底部对流热流表现为先升高后降低的趋势,并在20 km高空达到峰值。本文的预测分析方法对液体运载火箭底部热防护设计具有重要的理论意义和工程应用价值。     

Vibration controlled convection — preparation and perspective of the Maxus 4 experiment

A comparatively new possibility to influence convection in crystal growth melts is the application of controlled interface vibration, especially in systems with free melt surfaces like the float-zone process. The present paper concerns the development and testing of a vibrational device which will be integrated into a microgravity crystal growth facility for the growth of silicon crystals. In the case of silicon grown by the float-zone technique, time-dependent thermocapillary convection is present even under mirogravity and leads to unfavourable variations of the crystal composition profile.The developed setup can operate in the range of approximately 0.1 to 50kHz producing maximum amplitudes of 0.25μm (non resonance case) and 3.5μm (resonance case) respectively. The power consumption is below 5W, the maximum operation temperature of the device is restricted to 200°C, limited by an epoxy-based connection between vibrator and sample. The first microgravity application will be during the European Maxus 4 campaign in April 2001.