Experimental correction of combustion gas properties of AN-based composite solid propellants used for turbo-pump starter

Solid propellant gas generators play a role as a turbo-pump starter in liquid propellant propulsion systems by supplying pressurized gas to power turbines for engine start. Among the required combustion gas properties provided by solid propellant gas generators, the combustion gas temperature should not exceed a certain temperature which may damage the turbine blades. For such purposes, phase stabilized ammonium nitrate (AN)-based propellants have been widely used with a low combustion temperature. However, gas generator propellants with ammonium nitrate have historically exhibited incomplete combustion resulting in increased flame temperatures differing significantly from equilibrium values. In consideration of design requirements, an engineering model of solid propellant gas generator was manufactured using the combustion gas properties calculated by a chemical equilibrium code and then hot-fire tests were performed. Procedures for the correction of $T_0$, k and $M_w$ of the combustion gas from the experimental results are introduced and the following effects on the design of the solid propellant gas generator are presented. From the experimental correction of the combustion gas properties, it is found that the amount of the propellant could be reduced while providing the same amount of available power to the turbines and consequently, the size of the gas generator could also be decreased.     

Certain features of GTE combustion chamber open-type nozzles

In this paper, we consider the capability of GTE centrifugal open-type nozzles to recover combustion in the main combustion chamber at short-term fuel cutoffs into the fuel manifolds, when the anti-surge system operates, as well at actuation of “emergency brake” or the “dipping and shutdown valve”. We describe some features of the centrifugal open-type nozzles that make it possible to ensure the stable operation of the combustion chamber even at the “lean” blow-off boundary at α _CC ^max ≤ 65. The possibility of combustion recovery without using the spark plugs after the anti-surge system actuation has been experimentally confirmed.     

不同气体喷嘴的燃气轮机燃烧室性能对比

将原型使用-10#柴油的燃气轮机燃烧室改为使用天然气燃料的燃烧室,遵循对原型机改动量最少的原则,只对燃油喷嘴做改动设计,其余部分不做改动。为了解改型机的喷嘴与燃烧室的匹配特性,设计了三种不同孔径的天然气喷嘴（气体喷嘴开孔大小决定了燃料的喷射速度、燃料的浓度分布,进而影响燃烧室的燃烧性能）,并在改型机上进行燃烧性能试验研究。试验结果表明:改烧天然气后,设计状态燃烧效率增加,但出口温度分布有所变差,而对壁面温度分布影响不大;通过对燃烧性能进行对比分析,天然气3＃喷嘴的综合燃烧性能最优。      

Enrichment of the Hot Intracluster Medium: Observations

Four decades ago, the firm detection of an Fe-K emission feature in the X-ray spectrum of the Perseus cluster revealed the presence of iron in its hot intracluster medium (ICM). With more advanced missions successfully launched over the last 20 years, this discovery has been extended to many other metals and to the hot atmospheres of many other galaxy clusters, groups, and giant elliptical galaxies, as evidence that the elemental bricks of life—synthesized by stars and supernovae—are also found at the largest scales of the Universe. Because the ICM, emitting in X-rays, is in collisional ionisation equilibrium, its elemental abundances can in principle be accurately measured. These abundance measurements, in turn, are valuable to constrain the physics and environmental conditions of the Type Ia and core-collapse supernovae that exploded and enriched the ICM over the entire cluster volume. On the other hand, the spatial distribution of metals across the ICM constitutes a remarkable signature of the chemical history and evolution of clusters, groups, and ellipticals. Here, we summarise the most significant achievements in measuring elemental abundances in the ICM, from the very first attempts up to the era of XMM-Newton, Chandra, and Suzaku and the unprecedented results obtained by Hitomi. We also discuss the current systematic limitations of these measurements and how the future missions XRISM and Athena will further improve our current knowledge of the ICM enrichment.     

Magnetospheric Science Objectives of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">Juno</Emphasis> Mission

In July 2016, NASA’s Juno mission becomes the first spacecraft to enter polar orbit of Jupiter and venture deep into unexplored polar territories of the magnetosphere. Focusing on these polar regions, we review current understanding of the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere and summarize the outstanding issues. The Juno mission profile involves (a) a several-week approach from the dawn side of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, with an orbit-insertion maneuver on July 6, 2016; (b) a 107-day capture orbit, also on the dawn flank; and (c) a series of thirty 11-day science orbits with the spacecraft flying over Jupiter’s poles and ducking under the radiation belts. We show how Juno’s view of the magnetosphere evolves over the year of science orbits. The Juno spacecraft carries a range of instruments that take particles and fields measurements, remote sensing observations of auroral emissions at UV, visible, IR and radio wavelengths, and detect microwave emission from Jupiter’s radiation belts. We summarize how these Juno measurements address issues of auroral processes, microphysical plasma physics, ionosphere-magnetosphere and satellite-magnetosphere coupling, sources and sinks of plasma, the radiation belts, and the dynamics of the outer magnetosphere. To reach Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft passed close to the Earth on October 9, 2013, gaining the necessary energy to get to Jupiter. The Earth flyby provided an opportunity to test Juno’s instrumentation as well as take scientific data in the terrestrial magnetosphere, in conjunction with ground-based and Earth-orbiting assets.     

富氢/富氧燃气同轴剪切气-气喷嘴性能仿真分析

采用正交试验设计方法对富氢/富氧燃气同轴剪切气-气喷嘴设计参数氧压降比、燃氧速度比、氧喷嘴出口壁厚进行组合,数值模拟单喷嘴燃烧室燃烧流场,研究喷嘴设计参数及参数之间的交互作用对燃烧性能和燃烧室热载性能的影响,评价指标为燃烧长度、燃烧室壁面平均燃气温度和喷注面板平均燃气温度.仿真结果表明,燃氧速度比对燃烧与热载有显著影响,氧压降比与氢氧燃氧速度比的交互作用影响明显,分析结果对气-气喷嘴试验设计有重要指导意义.      

β Cephei stars from a photometric point of view

This is an observational review, with an emphasis on photometric data and their interpretation. Two lists are presented, one containing β Cephei stars, and the other, β Cephei suspects. These lists then serve as a basis for discussing such topics as the location of β Cephei stars in the observational and theoretical H-R diagrams, the evolutionary state of these stars, the period-luminosity and period-luminosity-color relations, and observational identification of pulsation modes. The paper also includes references to recent work connected with the theoretical discovery that an opacity mechanism is responsible for the excitation of β Cephei-star pulsations. Finally, observational programs for verifying the consequences of this discovery are suggested.     

气体取样分析在脉冲燃烧风洞试验中的应用

针对脉冲燃烧风洞试验条件及超燃冲压发动机燃烧室出口流场环境,设计了用于脉冲燃烧风洞流场氧气组分浓度校核及发动机燃烧室出口气流组分分析的探针取样-气相色谱分析测量系统,并在此基础上完成了对取样探针内部流场特性及燃气化学反应冻结情况分析.分析结果表明,进入探针的气流被有效冷却,能够实现化学反应冻结.利用风洞试验气流进行了系统校核,系统控制方面能够满足脉冲风洞试验测量要求,所得到的气流中氧气含量测量值与理论值吻合较好,偏差小于5%,甚至低至0.4%.利用该系统对马赫数2.6来流条件、直连式燃烧室模型燃烧工况下,出口不同位置处燃气中O2、N2和CO2等主要气体组分进行了直接测量,并进而估算了各测点处的表观燃烧效率,获得了其变化情况,所得到的结果在一定程度上反映了燃烧室中燃料的分布情况.     

三旋流器加装外套环对燃烧性能的影响

对带有两种不同头部结构（基准型为方案1,头部加装外套环为方案2）的三旋流单头部燃烧室进行了研究,对有两种头部结构的燃烧室进行了流场和燃烧场的数值模拟,在相同的进口试验条件下,用燃气分析法和15点测温耙分别测量了两种头部的燃烧效率、出口冒烟数和出口温度场.结果表明:三旋流器的燃烧效率超过了99.7%,加装外套环后其流场、温度场分布均较基准型有所改善,回流区更加饱满,油气混合和燃油雾化效果增强,出口温度分布系数（OTDF）和出口冒烟数分别降低了36%和25%.      

航空发动机燃烧室燃烧过程与排放物生成的反应动力学数值模拟

选用正癸烷作为航空煤油的替代燃料,建立了正癸烷的化学反应详细机理与简化机理(包括50种组分,118个基元反应).分别采用详细机理与简化机理对正癸烷在激波管中的着火延迟时间、在预混燃烧炉内的燃烧过程进行了数值计算,并与实验结果进行了对比分析.同时,耦合该简化机理与CFD计算软件Fluent,对某型航空发动机环管形燃烧室中单个火焰筒内流动特性与燃烧过程、排放物及活性中间组分生成的反应动力学特性进行了详细分析,并与采用C₁₂H₂₃为燃料的单步反应机理的计算结果进行了对比分析.结果表明:采用简化机理计算得到的着火延迟时间、反应物与各主要生成物摩尔分数的整体变化趋势与实验数据吻合较好;与采用C₁₂H₂₃为燃料的单步反应机理相比,采用正癸烷为替代燃料的简化反应机理计算得到的温度场分布更符合实际,其出口平均温度亦更为接近燃烧室出口设计温度;同时,能更为详细了解燃料低温裂解过程及裂解产物、中间产物及主要排放物的生成规律.      

Géodésie terrestre et géodésie par satellites

In the first part of the paper some of the most important concepts used in terrestrial and satellite geodesy are defined and discussed.

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   The three reference surfaces: the topographic surface, the geoid and the reference ellipsoïd. The later is to be considered more as a convenient mathematical tool rather than a representation of the form of the earth.     
   
   

Heliosheath Processes and the Structure of the Heliopause: Modeling Energetic Particles,Cosmic Rays,and Magnetic Fields

This paper summarizes the results obtained by the team “Heliosheath Processes and the Structure of the Heliopause: Modeling Energetic Particles, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields” supported by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. We focus on the physical processes occurring in the outer heliosphere, especially at its boundary called the heliopause, and in the local interstellar medium. The importance of magnetic field, charge exchange between neutral atoms and ions, and solar cycle on the heliopause topology and observed heliocentric distances to different heliospheric discontinuities are discussed. It is shown that time-dependent, data-driven boundary conditions are necessary to describe the heliospheric asymmetries detected by the Voyager spacecraft. We also discuss the structure of the heliopause, especially due to its instability and magnetic reconnection. It is demonstrated that the Rayleigh–Taylor instability of the nose of the heliopause creates consecutive layers of the interstellar and heliospheric plasma which are magnetically connected to different sources. This may be a possible explanation of abrupt changes in the galactic and anomalous cosmic ray fluxes observed by Voyager 1 when it was crossing the heliopause structure for a period of about one month in the summer of 2012. This paper also discusses the plausibility of fitting simulation results to a number of observational data sets obtained by in situ and remote measurements. The distribution of magnetic field in the vicinity of the heliopause is discussed in the context of Voyager measurements. It is argued that a classical heliospheric current sheet formed due to the Sun’s rotation is not observed by in situ measurements and should not be expected to exist in numerical simulations extending to the boundary of the heliosphere. Furthermore, we discuss the transport of energetic particles in the inner and outer heliosheath, concentrating on the anisotropic spatial diffusion diffusion tensor and the pitch-angle dependence of perpendicular diffusion and demonstrate that the latter can explain the observed pitch-angle anisotropies of both the anomalous and galactic cosmic rays in the outer heliosheath.     

Calculation and experimental investigation of mixture formation in a vortex mixer

The paper presents the investigation results for an ejection device of preliminary preparation of a fuel-air mixture for low emission combustion chambers. The process of mixture formation was simulated numerically. The experimental investigation of oxidant and gaseous fuel mixing was carried out and the characteristic dependences of the mixture concentration distribution in the exit section were obtained.     

The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission

The Earth’s thermosphere and ionosphere constitute a dynamic system that varies daily in response to energy inputs from above and from below. This system can exhibit a significant response within an hour to changes in those inputs, as plasma and fluid processes compete to control its temperature, composition, and structure. Within this system, short wavelength solar radiation and charged particles from the magnetosphere deposit energy, and waves propagating from the lower atmosphere dissipate. Understanding the global-scale response of the thermosphere-ionosphere (T-I) system to these drivers is essential to advancing our physical understanding of coupling between the space environment and the Earth’s atmosphere. Previous missions have successfully determined how the “climate” of the T-I system responds. The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission will determine how the “weather” of the T-I responds, taking the next step in understanding the coupling between the space environment and the Earth’s atmosphere. Operating in geostationary orbit, the GOLD imaging spectrograph will measure the Earth’s emissions from 132 to 162 nm. These measurements will be used image two critical variables—thermospheric temperature and composition, near 160 km—on the dayside disk at half-hour time scales. At night they will be used to image the evolution of the low latitude ionosphere in the same regions that were observed earlier during the day. Due to the geostationary orbit being used the mission observes the same hemisphere repeatedly, allowing the unambiguous separation of spatial and temporal variability over the Americas.     

The near-Earth plasma sheet: An AMPTE/IRM perspective

During the last five years, statistical studies using plasma measurements made by the AMPTE/IRM satellite have lead to a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of the near-Earth plasma sheet between about 10 and 20R _E. The most notable new findings are: (1) the adiabatic non-isentropic behavior of the tail plasma during quiet times; (2) the strong non-adiabatic heating of ions and electrons during substorms and the strong coupling of the ion and electron temperature withT _i/T_i7; and (3) the high-speed flow bursts which carry most of the tail plasma transport. Moreover, it became clear that it is the central plasma sheet, and not the plasma sheet boundary layer, which is most affected by substorm activity.     

燃用低热值燃料燃烧室试验

对采用低热值气体燃料燃烧的某型发动机燃烧室进行试验研究,并对该燃烧室进行改进设计.通过降低主燃区燃气速度和对燃料气进行预热以提高燃烧效率,通过对火焰筒头部及喷嘴进行改进以提高燃烧室出口温度,通过在火焰筒掺混段加掺混管来优化温度场.试验研究表明:改进后的燃烧室其燃烧效率和出口温度优于原型燃烧室.      

Optical and UV Diagnostics of Supernova Remnant Shocks

The relatively faint optical and UV emission from non-radiative shock waves provides diagnostics for processes related to cosmic ray acceleration in collisionless shocks. Emission line profiles and intensities can be used to determine the efficiencies of electron-ion and ion-ion thermal equilibration, which influence the population of fast particles injected into the acceleration process. It is found that T _e/T _p declines with shock speed and that T _i is roughly proportional to mass in fast shocks. Important information about cosmic ray precursors may be available, but the interpretation is still somewhat ambiguous. The compression ratios in shocks which efficiently accelerate cosmic rays are predicted to be substantially larger than the factor of 4 expected for a strong shock in a = 5/3 perfect gas, and some limits may be available from observations.     

单通道内燃波转子燃烧性能实验

建立简化单通道内燃波转子系统,以连续热射流的点火方式,采用实验方法研究了点火位置,射流作用时间,初始预混气当量油气比对波转子通道内点火及燃烧性能的影响.结果表明:随着射流逐渐推近,喷管出口距波转子通道38mm附近时,对点火不利,但点火位置对火焰锋面发展影响不大;在不同当量油气比下,射流作用时间对波转子通道内燃烧过程压力增益具有不同的影响规律,同时火焰锋面倾斜角随着射流作用时间增加而有所减小;当量油气比为2.0时不利于波转子内组织燃烧,且此时火焰锋面出现反向倾斜,倾斜角高达58°.