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Mixing and Combustion Enhancement in Scramjet Combustors Induced by Interaction between Vortex and Shock Wave

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08455459
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Aerospace engineering
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

MASUYA Goro  Tohoku Univ., Graduate School of Engineering, Professor, 大学院・工学研究科, 教授 (20271869)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TAKITA Kenichi  Tohoku Univ., Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant, 大学院・工学研究科, 助手 (80282101)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥7,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
KeywordsScramjet / Supersonic Mixing / Supersonic Combustion
Research Abstract

In order to establish a method to evaluate relative importance of gain and loss in the available energy to be converted into the propulsive work in the scramjet combustor, we introduced a combustor performance parameter which was written in terms of the kinetic energy efficiency and the combustion efficiency. These two efficiencies in the parameter were combined in the form appearing in the equation for thrust. The combustor performance parameter was evaluated with the available experimental data for two supersonic combustors with eight fuel injection patterns, and it clarified the effects of injection pattern, combustor length, chemical reaction in the nozzle were investigated. The result showed that the optimum combustor length based on the parameter was less than a half of one estimated only from the combustion efficiency or the mixing efficiency. It was found that use of the properties of pure air instead of those of vitiated air used in the experiment may results in significantly … More different value of the performance parameter.
As a typical flowfield where interaction between vortices and shock waves occurs, compressible swirling jet of over- or under-expansion condition was chosen, and mixing of such jet was experimentally investigated. At first, non-swirling jet of Mach 0.3, 1.0 or 2.0 was injected into quiescent atmosphere or heated subsonic flow. Mixing characteristics of the non-ideally expanded non-swirling jets could be well correlated with those of the ideally expanded jets when the reference values of diameter and velocity calculated with assumption of expansion or compression to ambient pressure keeping the stream thrust constant were used to non-dimensionalize the data. The swirling jet was produced by attaching a swirler in the subsonic portion of the nozzle. Mixing of the jet was slightly enhanced by increasing swirl number. In comparison with the ideal expansion jet, the potential core region of the non-ideally expanded swirling jet was shortened, but its mixing rate in the developed region was retarded. Effect of swirl on the mixing of two parallel supersonic jets were observed by flow visualization. The swirl enhanced mixing near the merging region of the twin jets. Swirl of the same direction for both jets had resulted in better mixing then that of the counter direction. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • 1996 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All Other

All Publications (3 results)

  • [Publications] G.Masuya, et al.: "Performance Evaluation of Scramjet Combustors Using Kinetic Energy and Combustion Efficiencies" Journal of Propulsion and Power. 15・3(in press). (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] G.Masuya, T.Uemoto, Y.Wakana, K.Kudou, A.Murakami, and T.Komuro: "Performance Evaluation of Scramjet Combustors Using Kinetic Energy and Combustion Efficiencies" Journal of Propulsion and Power. 15-3, in press. (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Goro Masuya,et al.: "Performance Evaluation of Scramjet Combustors Using Kinetic Energy and Combastion Efficienies" Journal of Prepulsion and Power. 15・2(印刷中). (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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