Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Combustion with Parallel Injection of Hydrogen Fuel

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 465-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
MSR Murty ◽  
Debasis Chakraborty ◽  
R. Mishal
Author(s):  
Masanori Sato ◽  
Takashi Nagumo ◽  
Kazuyuki Toda ◽  
Makoto Yamamoto

For the next-generation aircraft, a new propulsion system using hydrogen fuel has been proposed. In the present system, hydrogen fuel injected from a stator surface combusts in the turbine passages, accordingly, the conventional combustor can be cut out. The advantage of this system is that we can design a lighter and smaller engine with low emission. We have demonstrated the realizability of this system by using the cycle analysis and the numerical simulations. Through the previous studies, it was confirmed that the rotor/stator interaction has to be investigated, because the hydrogen combustion phenomena within the stator passage is so complex, and thus it would highly affect the rotor performance. In this paper, we focus on the rotor/stator interaction for the detailed investigation of realizability of this system. The 2- and 3-dimensional numerical simulations are performed for a single stage turbine with hydrogen-fuelled combustion. In the 2-dimensional study, the effects of the injection position and injection rate on the flow structure, the static temperature over the blades, and the blade performance are investigated. Furthermore, 3-dimensional numerical simulation is performed. The general aspect of 3-dimensional flow field is demonstrated, and the effect of hydrogen combustion on the components of turbine, for example hub, tip and blade, are investigated.


Author(s):  
K. M. Chadwick ◽  
D. J. Deturris ◽  
J. A. Schetz

An experimental investigation was conducted to measure skin friction along the chamber walls of supersonic combustors. A direct force measurement device was used to simultaneously measure an axial and transverse component of the small tangential shear force passing over a non-intrusive floating element. This measurement was made possible with a sensitive piezoresistive deflection sensing unit. The floating head is mounted to a stiff cantilever beam arrangement with deflection due to the flow on the order of 0.00254 mm (0.0001 in). This allowed the instrument to be a non-nulling type. A second gauge was designed with active cooling of the floating sensor head to eliminate non-uniform temperature effects between the sensor head and the surrounding wall. The key to this device is the use of a quartz tube cantilever with piezoresistive strain gages bonded directly to its surface. A symmetric fluid flow was developed inside the quartz tube to provide cooling to the backside of the floating head. Tests showed that this flow did not influence the tangential force measurement. Measurements were made in three separate combustor test facilities. Tests at NASA Langley Research Center consisted of a Mach 3.0 vitiated air flow with hydrogen fuel injection at Pt = 500 psia (3446 kPa) and Tt = 3000 R (1667 K). Two separate sets of tests were conducted at the General Applied Science Laboratory (GASL) in a scramjet combustor model with hydrogen fuel injection in vitiated air at Mach = 3.3, Pt = 800 psia (5510 kPa), and Tt = 4000 R (2222 K). Skin friction coefficients between 0.001–0.005 were measured dependent on the facility and measurement location. Analysis of the measurement uncertainties indicate an accuracy to within ±10–15% of the streamwise component.


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