金属/水反应冲压发动机理论性能计算与分析

基于水与金属燃料反应的水冲压发动机是一种新型的水下动力装置。为了研究水下冲压发动机的基本性能,在简述热力计算原理的基础上,以含铝贫氧推进剂为例对燃气发生器式水冲压发动机、以铝金属燃料为例对漩流式水冲压发动机进行了不同工作状态下的热力计算,得出了发动机比冲与水燃比、工作压强等之间的定性关系。

金属/水反应冲压发动机内流场数值模拟

基于燃气发生器式金属/水反应冲压发动机的构成形式,建立了发动机补燃室内流场两相反应计算模型,并在该模型下对给定的贫氧推进剂配方,及某模型发动机进行了模拟,得出了不同水喷射雾化角、铝颗粒燃烧模型、铝颗粒初始直径下反应物和产物组分、温度等发动机参数的变化趋势。结果表明,水喷射雾化角大有利于水滴蒸发及其与燃气的掺混;两种不同的铝颗粒燃烧模型结果差别不大;铝颗粒初始直径的大小对发动机性能有显著影响。

金属水反应水冲压发动机系统性能估算

使用金属 水反应燃料是推进水下超高速航行器的最佳途径,分析了单次注水和二次注水的铝 水反应燃料水冲压发动机系统,得出了燃料质量配比、燃烧室温度、燃烧室压强、系统有效推力、效率等关键技术性能指标。指出了二次注水系统的优越性并提出了一种二次注水系统的实施方案。分析结论与实际系统性能指标相吻合,证明了分析的正确性,可以为系统研究提供参考。

粉末燃料冲压发动机理论性能分析

研究粉末燃料冲压发动机的理论性能,采用编制的热力计算软件,分别对以硼粉、铝粉、镁粉为燃料的发动机性能进行了计算,分析了不同参数对发动机比冲的影响趋势,为进一步研究及发动机设计奠定了基础。通过与常规液体燃料冲压发动机及固体火箭冲压发动机进行比较,说明了粉末燃料冲压发动机在比冲及体积比冲方面的优势。鉴于金属粉末燃烧产物中凝相物质含量高的特点,研究了两相流损失对发动机性能的影响。

超燃冲压发动机性能预测工程方法

基于一维流体动力学守恒关系模型和燃烧化学平衡流动假设,建立了超燃冲压发动机内推力、比冲与尾喷管出口压力的关联式,消除了以往实验中存在的超燃冲压发动机性能评估的困难。利用该关系式对超燃冲压发动机燃烧室实验模型推力增益进行了计算,通过与实验测量值的对比,校核了燃烧效率。对配合现有燃烧室模型、进气道和尾喷管的一体化发动机推力性能进行了评估,获得了发动机内推力系数、比冲与尾喷管出口压力关系曲线,为超燃冲压发动机性能快速评估和优化设计提供依据。

水冲压发动机的热力性能分析

针对水冲压发动机这一新型动力系统，详细分析了其工作过程，并建立了相应的热力计算模型。结合质量守恒方程、化学平衡方程和能量守恒方程建立了发动机热力计算理论，预估了发动机的性能，初步设定了燃烧室的工作压力，并分析了比冲、推力以及特征速度等性能参数随进水量的定性变化规律。综合考虑发动机性能及燃烧反应的启动温度，得出一次进水水燃比限定在0．5～1．9之间，总水燃比的上限为5．1，而水燃比为3．5时对应着最高比冲。

冲压发动机进气道不起动边界分析

不起动边界是超声速进气道研究的重要内容,它是进气道保护控制的基础和前提。针对这一问题,对冲压发动机进气道进行了不同边界条件下的数值模拟,对稳态流场结果进行了分析。基于仿真数据,利用量纲分析工具对进气道最大抗反压能力进行了分析,讨论并给出了两进气道流动的相似条件。分析结果表明:在不考虑攻角变化的条件下,进气道不起动边界主要与来流马赫数有关。

涡轮冲压组合循环发动机引射过程数值模拟

为了研究气流参数和几何参数对TBCC发动机引射工作过程的影响,基于CFD技术,采用数值求解N-S方程的方法,开展了对TBCC发动机引射工作过程的数值模拟研究。基于TBCC发动机引射过程数值模拟结果的分析,可以发现:随着引射段主流(涡轮发动机排出气流)的进口气流角度增加,总压和马赫数的分布趋于均匀,但是总压损失逐渐增大,因此在TBCC发动机引射段结构设计时,不应使涡轮发动机的排气角度过大。存在一个最小的引射段长度Lm in,当引射段长度小于Lm in时,随着引射段长度的增加,总压损失显著增大;当引射段长度大于Lm in时,随着引射段长度的增加,总压损失基本不发生变化。

Numerical simulation on magnetohydrodynamic power generation channel of scramjet

The reverse magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)energy bypass technology is a promising energy redis⁃tribution technology in the scramjet system,in augmented with a power generation equipment to supply the neces⁃sary long-distance flight airframe power.In this paper,a computational model of the scramjet magnetohydrody⁃namic channel is developed and verified by using the commercial software Fluent.It is found that when the mag⁃netic induction intensity is 1,2,3,4 T,the power generation efficiency is 22.5%,22.3%,22.0%,21.5%,and decreases with the increase of the magnetic induction intensity,and the enthalpy extraction rate is 0.026%,0.1%,0.21%,0.34%,and increases with the increase of the magnetic induction intensity.The deceleration ef⁃fect of electromagnetic action on the airflow in the power channel increases with the increase of magnetic induc⁃tion intensity.The stronger the magnetic field intensity,the more obvious the decreasing effect of fluid Mach num⁃ber in the channel.The power generation efficiency decreases as the magnetic induction intensity increases and the enthalpy extraction rate is reversed.As the local currents gathering at inlet and outlet of the power generation area,total temperature and enthalpy along the flow direction do not vary linearly,and there are maximum and minimum values at inlet and outlet.Increasing the number of electrodes can effectively regulate the percentage of Joule heat dissipation,which can improve the power generation efficiency.

EFFECTS OF INCOMING FLOW ASYMMETRY ON SHOCK TRAIN STRUCTURES IN CONSTANT-AREA ISOLATORS

To simulate the actual flowfield at the exit of the supersonic/hypersonic inlet, a wind tunnel is designed to study the flow in the scramjet isolator under the asymmetric incoming flow. And compression fields in the isolator are investigated using wall static and pitot pressure measurements. Three incoming Mach numbers are considered as 1.5, 1.8 and 2. Results show that the increase of the asymmetry of the flow at the isolator entrance leads to the increase of the shock train length in the isolator for a given pressure ratio. Based on the analysis of the flow asymmetry effect at the isolator entrance on the shock train length, a modified correlation is proposed to calculate the length of the shock train. Predicted results of the proposed correlation are in good agreement with the experimental data.

SCRAMJET INLET MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION BASED ON RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY

The uniform design and response surface methodology （RSM） are applied to the multi-objective optimization of a 2-D mixed compression scramjet inlet. The set of experimental design points on the design space is selected by the uniform design, and the inlet performance is analyzed by computational fluid dynamics （CFD）. Then complete quadratic polynomial response surface approximation models are constructed based on the performance analysis results and then used to replace theoriginal complex inlet performance model. The optimization is conducted using a multi-objective genetic algorithm NSGA-Ⅱ, and the Pareto optimal solution set is obtained. Results show that the uniform design and RSM can reduce the computational complexity of numerical simulation and improve the optimization efficiency.

Study on Feasibility of Reusable Rocket Launching Technology by Use of Scramjet and Maglev Technologies

The scramjet and maglev engineering technology development and trends at home and abroad are firstly presented in this paper. A new launch mode of space transportation system is proposed based on scramjet and magnetic suspension technologies, and its key technologies required are given. This paper also makes analysis on using scramjet and magnetic suspension technologies to launch a reusable rocket, and the results show that a normal temperature conductor maglev launch system is feasible.

Reconstruction of Turbulent Swirling Flow in a Dump Combustor

Experimental data of the continuous evolution of fluid flow characteristics in a dump combustor is very useful and essential for better and optimum designs of gas turbine combustors and ramjet engines. Unfortunately, experimental techniques such as 2D and/or 3D LDV （Laser Doppler Velocimetry） measurements provide only limited discrete information at given points; especially, for the cases of complex flows such as dump combustor swirling flows. For this type of flows, usual numerical interpolating schemes appear to be unsuitable. Recently, neural networks have emerged as viable means of expanding a finite data set of experimental measurements to enhance better understanding of a particular complex phenomenon. This study showed that generalized feed forward network is suitable for the prediction of turbulent swirling flow characteristics in a model dump combustor. These techniques are proposed for optimum designs of dump combustors and ramjet engines.

Analyses of surrogate models for calculating thermophysical properties of aviation kerosene RP-3 at supercritical pressures

Aviation kerosene is commonly used in combustion and regenerative engine cooling processes in propulsion and power-generation systems,including rocket,scramjet,and advanced gas turbine engines.In this paper,many surrogate models proposed in the open literature are examined for their applicability and accuracy in calculating thermodynamic and transport properties of the China aviation kerosene RP-3 at supercritical pressures,based on the extended corresponding-states methods.The enthalpy change from endothermic decomposition and low heating value from combustion of the jet fuel are also evaluated.Results from a number of simple and representative surrogate models,which contain species components ranging from 1 to10,are analyzed in detail.Data analyses indicate that a surrogate model with four species is the best choice for thermophysical property calculations under the tested conditions,with fluid temperature up to 650 K at various supercritical pressures.The surrogate model is particularly accurate in predicting the pseudo-critical temperature of aviation kerosene RP-3 at a supercritical pressure.A simple surrogate model containing the n-decane species and a surrogate model containing 10 species are the other two acceptable options.The work conducted herein is of practical importance for theoretical analyses and numerical simulations of various physicochemical processes at engine operating conditions.

Progress in research on mixing techniques for transverse injection flow fields in supersonic crossflows

The transverse injection flow field has an important impact on the flowpath design of scramjet engines. At present a combination of the transverse injection scheme and any other flame holder has been widely employed in hypersonic propulsion systems to promote the mixing process between the fuel and the supersonic freestream; combustion efficiency has been improved thereby, as well as engine thrust. Research on mixing techniques for the transverse injection flow field is summarized from four aspects, namely the jet-to-crossflow pressure ratio, the geometric configuration of the injection port, the number of injection ports, and the injection angle. In conclusion, urgent investigations of mixing techniques of the transverse injection flow field are pro- posed, especiaUy data mining in the quantitative analytical results for transverse injection flow field, based on results from multi-objective design optimization theory.

Power generation and heat sink improvement characteristics of recooling cycle for thermal cracked hydrocarbon fueled scramjet

In order to further investigate how much fuel heat sink could be increased and how much power generation could be obtained by using recooling cycle for a regeneratively cooled scramjet,the energy conversion from heat to electricity and the fuel heat sink increase in recooling cycle are experimentally investigated for fuel conversion rate and components of gas cracked fuel products at different fuel temperatures.The results indicate that the total fuel heat sink(i.e.,physical+chemical+recooling) of a recooling cycle is obviously higher than the heat sink of fuel itself,and the maximum heat sink increment is as high as 0.4 MJ/kg throughout the recooling cycle.Furthermore,the cracked fuel mixture has a significant capacity of doing work.The thermodynamic power generation scheme,which adopts the cracked fuel gas mixture as the working fluid,is a potential power generation cycle,and the maximum specific power generation is about 500 kW/kg.Turbine-pump scheme using cracked fuel gas mixture is also a potential fuel feeding cycle.

System Design and Analysis of Hydrocarbon Scramjet with Regeneration Cooling and Expansion Cycle

A new expansion cycle scheme of the scramjet engine system including a hydrocarbon-fuel-based(kerosene)regenerative cooling system and supercritical/cracking kerosene-based turbo-pump was proposed in this paper.In this cycle scbeme,the supercritical/cracking kerosene with high pressure and high temperature is formed through the cooling channel.And then,in order to make better use of the high energy of the supercritical/cracking fuel,the supercritical/cracking kerosene fuel was used to drive the turbo-pump to obtain a high pressure of the cold kerosene fuel at the entrance of the cooling channel.In the end,the supercritical/cracking kerosene from the turbine exit is injected into the scramjet combustor.Such supercritical/cracking kerosene fuel can decrease the fuel-air mixing length and increase the combustion efficiency,due to the gas state and low molecular weight of the cracking fuel.In order to ignite the cold kerosene in the start-up stage,the ethylene-assisted ignition subsystem was applied.In the present paper,operating modes and characteristics of the expansion cycle system are first described.And then,the overall design of the system and the characterisitics of the start-up process are analyzed numerically to investigate effects of the system parameters on the scramjet start-up performance.The results show that the expansion cycle system proposed in this paper can work well under typical conditions.The research work in this paper can help to make a solid foundation for the research on the coupling characteristics between the dynamics and thermodynamics of the scramjet expansion cycle system.

A decoupled procedure for convection-radiation simulation in scramjets

Following an order analysis of key parameters, a decoupled procedure for simulation of convection-radiation heat transfer problems in supersonic combustion ramjet(scramjet) engine was developed. The radiation module of the procedure consisted of Perry 5GG weighted sum gray gases model for spectral property calculation and discrete ordinates method S4 scheme for radiative transfer computation, while the flow field was computed using the Favrè average conservative Navier-Stokes(N-S) equations, in conjunction with Menter's k-ω SST two-equation model. A series of 2D supersonic nonreactive turbulent channel flows of radiative participants with selective parameters were simulated for validation purpose. Radiative characteristics in DLR hydrogen fueled and NASA SCHOLAR ethylene fueled scramjets were numerically studied using the developed procedure. The results indicated that the variations of spatial distributions of the radiative source and total absorption coefficient are highly consistent with those of the temperature and radiative participants, while the spatial distribution of the incident radiation spreads wider. It also demonstrated that the convective heating is significantly affected by the complexity of the flow field, such as the shock wave/boundary layer interactions, while the radiative heating is simply an integral effect of the whole flow field. Although the radiative heating in the combustion chambers reaches a certain level, an order of magnitude of 10 k W/m2, it still contributes little to the total heat transfer(<7%).

Performance study of a water ramjet engine

A performance study of a water ramjet engine is described.The engine is powered by the reaction of a magnesium-based propellant and ingested water.In this study,a solid propellant,which consisted of a large percentage of magnesium,a binder and a small amount of oxidant,was used as a hydro reactive fuel.Cold water was injected into the combustion chamber as a main oxidant.A scaled-down experimental engine was tested in a direct-connect ground testing system to characterize the factors influencing the engine performance.The results show that the increasing of total water/fuel ratio,an addition of secondary water intake along the combustion chamber,a larger magnesium content in the solid propellant,a smaller primary water injection angle towards the coming main flow,and a higher primary injection pressure were all able to promote the engine performance.The maximum engine performance was obtained in test 08,and with all tests,an appropriate set of parameters and conditions for the optimum engine performance were determined

Experimental Study on Measurement and Calculation of Heat Flux in Supersonic Combustor of Scramjet

An experimental measurement and calculation method which consist of thermal response model, convergence criteria and control algorithms, is proposed in this paper for the determination of heat flux in a scramjet combus- tot. Numerical simulations are done to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and experiments are made in the direct-connect hydrocarbon fueled scramjet combustor of Mach-6 flight for different equivalence ra- tios. The distribution of heat flux along the axial and circumferential directions can be obtained using the pro- posed method. The distribution of heat flux is uneven which is caused by the aerodynamic heating, combustion heat release and changes of section area, and the peak heat flux can be more than 2MW/m^2 during the experi- ments. Heat flux increases with the increase in equivalence ratio for the same Mach number. And axial distribu- tion of heat flux is uniform for different equivalence ratios. In addition, the combustion heat release area of the combustion chamber can therefore be concluded which is useful for guiding the structural design of the thermal protection system.