NASA tests new launch and entry vehicle configurations in wind tunnels, where flow visualizations and quantitative flow field measurements are often desired. Some of these vehicles have rocket motors for propulsion, retro-propulsion, or reaction control. Unseeded,high-pressure air is often used to simulate these rocket motor plumes. However, it is difficult to make off-body measurements in these regions, for several reasons. First, the plumes themselves are usually unseeded and at such low pressures that the flow velocity cannot currently be measured. Second, the plumes displace seeded tunnel air, preventing measurements such as laser sheet visualizations. Third, they force shock waves ahead of the vehicle, which melts the ice crystal fog commonly used for many visualization and measurement techniques. The Virginia Tech Advanced Propulsion and Power Lab has designed and tested a novel method for seeding the flow in these small-scale, high-pressure nozzles to allow quantitative measurement with a particle-based measurement such as particle image velocimetry (PIV). The method involves a Venturi contraction to draw the seed liquid out of a reservoir and into the nozzle channel, wherein shearing forces atomize the seed into particles. The concept was tested with a laser sheet visualization, which showed the nozzle spray pattern and the controllability of the seeding flow rate. This relatively inexpensive and simple technique may prove useful in wind tunnel experiments involving particle-based laser diagnostics and small, high-pressure nozzles.


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    Titel :

    Seeding Mechanism for High-Pressure Nozzles


    Beteiligte:
    Aditya S. Acharya (Autor:in) / K. Todd Lowe (Autor:in) / Wing F. Ng (Autor:in) / Paul M. Danehy (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA SciTech 2021 ; 2021 ; Nashville, TN, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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