Abstract Cavities are commonly used to provide flame-holding in scramjets. While the injector is generally placed inside or upstream of the cavity, placement of the cavity behind the injector limits the influence of the cavity on the jet interaction and limits cavity-induced mixing enhancement. The current study investigates a geometry in which the cavity is placed directly upstream of the injector and examines its effect on scramjet combustor mixing performance. Specifically, enhancement in jet mixing and penetration is considered using chemically frozen hydrogen fuel. The influence of three different thermal boundary conditions (isothermal 300 K, isothermal 1800 K and adiabatic) on the flowfield and mixing was also examined. The upstream cavities are found to improve mixing efficiency and jet penetration relative to a baseline flat plate configuration for most configurations, while they do incur a total pressure loss up to 2% higher than in the baseline. The magnitude of these effects is found to depend on the cavity geometry and wall thermal model. The primary mechanism behind the performance improvement is the shielding of the barrel shock by the cavity recirculation, which introduces extra vorticity into the flowfield and reduces the strength of the bow shock. Increased shielding provided by the cavity is found to enhance mixing by up to 9%. An optimum cavity aspect ratio is observed to exist at a cavity length-to-depth ratio of L / D = 15 , for which performance is maximum compared to the baseline for all wall treatments. Wall heat flux increases in configurations with cavities, particularly on the aft wall of the cavity, while fuel drawn into the cavity is seen to contribute to wall cooling in case of high wall temperatures. This can reduce wall cooling requirements and simplify combustor design. In general the enhanced mixing and jet penetration induced by the cavity could allow for shorter combustor designs, which in turn allows for more compact flight vehicle design.

    Highlights for Acta Astronautica Mixing efficiency is improved by up to 9% when an upstream cavity is used. The cavity with L/D = 15 is found to perform best compared to the no-cavity baseline. Total pressure loss is higher for the cavity cases. Peak heat flux is higher in the cavity cases. Fuel drawn into the cavity provides cooling.


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    Titel :

    Numerical investigation of upstream cavity enhanced fuel mixing in scramjet combustors


    Beteiligte:
    Roos, Tim (Autor:in) / Pudsey, Adrian (Autor:in) / Bricalli, Mathew (Autor:in) / Ogawa, Hideaki (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 169 ; 50-65


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-12-24


    Format / Umfang :

    16 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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