Improving High Enthalpy Expansion Tube Condition Characterisation Using High Speed Imagery

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. James ◽  
Daniel R. Smith ◽  
Carl McLean ◽  
Richard G. Morgan ◽  
Steven W. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Expansion Tube ◽  
High Enthalpy

scholarly journals High-enthalpy hypersonic flows

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. S. Shang ◽  
Hong Yan
Keyword(s):  
Hypersonic Flow ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic ◽  
Strong Shock ◽  
Hypersonic Flows ◽  
Electrically Conducting ◽  
High Enthalpy ◽  
Speed Range ◽  
Flow Theories

Abstract Nearly all illuminating classic hypersonic flow theories address aerodynamic phenomena as a perfect gas in the high-speed range and at the upper limit of continuum gas domain. The hypersonic flow is quantitatively defined by the Mach number independent principle, which is derived from the asymptotes of the Rankine-Hugoniot relationship. However, most hypersonic flows encounter strong shock-wave compressions resulting in a high enthalpy gas environment that always associates with nonequilibrium thermodynamic and quantum chemical-physics phenomena. Under this circumstance, the theoretic linkage between the microscopic particle dynamics and macroscopic thermodynamics properties of gas is lost. When the air mixture is ionized to become an electrically conducting medium, the governing physics now ventures into the regimes of quantum physics and electromagnetics. Therefore, the hypersonic flows are no longer a pure aerodynamics subject but a multidisciplinary science. In order to better understand the realistic hypersonic flows, all pertaining disciplines such as the nonequilibrium chemical kinetics, quantum physics, radiative heat transfer, and electromagnetics need to bring forth.

An expansion tube study of high enthalpy carbon-dioxide flows

Shock Waves ◽  
2005 ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
T. J. Mclntyre ◽  
T. N. Eichmann ◽  
I. Lourel ◽  
K. M. Hajek ◽  
H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Expansion Tube ◽  
High Enthalpy ◽  
Tube Study

Generating High Speed Earth Re-entry Test Conditions in an Expansion Tube for Interplanetary Return Missions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. James ◽  
Steven W. Lewis ◽  
David E. Gildfind ◽  
Richard G. Morgan ◽  
Timothy J. McIntyre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Expansion Tube ◽  
Test Conditions

Integral Axi-Symmetric Nozzle Design

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (659) ◽  
pp. 795-798
Author(s):  
M. J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Space Technology ◽  
Axially Symmetric ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hypersonic Nozzle ◽  
Low Speed ◽  
Throat Region ◽  
High Enthalpy ◽  
Working Section

SummaryThis is an extension of the design method described in ref. 1 to the compressible flow in integral nozzles comprising both subsonic (contraction) and supersonic (effusor) parts. The nozzles are axially symmetric and will be considered as isentropic convertors of low speed high enthalpy inviscid gas to a high speed, relatively low enthalpy state, heat transfer effects being ignored. The key advantage of the method over existing hybrid design methods(2'3'4'5) is that no assumption is made as to conditions in the “sonic” throat region before expansion in the effusor, the design being integral from low speed inlet to high speed outlet. A slight disadvantage of the method is that of ref 1, namely that a nozzle of an ideally infinite extent has to be truncated both at inlet and outlet. However, for a given nozzle length this limitation can be biased towards the relatively insensitive low subsonic inlet to benefit correspondingly outlet conditions to the extent that it should be possible to make the maximum variation from the mean in the cross-sectional speed at outlet less than 0.01 per cent. The method is being applied to design integral hypersonic nozzle units for the projected small intermittent hypersonic facility in the Department of Aeronautics and Space Technology. This tunnel will have a nominal working-section diameter of 2 in and the flow will be accelerated from low speed (about 20 ft/sec) at inlet to Mach numbers of either 5, 6, or 7 at outlet to the working section using three alternative nozzles.

Unstart phenomena induced by mass addition and heat release in a model scramjet

2016 ◽  
Vol 797 ◽  
pp. 604-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Im ◽  
D. Baccarella ◽  
B. McGann ◽  
Q. Liu ◽  
L. Wermer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Free Stream ◽  
Mass Loading ◽  
High Enthalpy ◽  
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel ◽  
Flow Features

The unstart phenomena in a model scramjet with a free stream Mach number of 4.5 were investigated at an arc-heated hypersonic wind tunnel. High-speed schlieren imaging and high resonance frequency pressure measurements were used to capture the flow features during the unstart process. Three unstart conditions were tested: (i) a low-enthalpy free stream with mass loading, (ii) a high-enthalpy free stream with mass loading and (iii) a high-enthalpy free stream with mass loading and heat release. It was revealed that the unstart threshold and the time from the onset to the completion of unstart depended strongly on the mass loading rate and the heat exchange. The negative heat addition (cooling) significantly increased the threshold of mass flow rate triggering unstart. The decrement of the mass flow rate threshold for unstart was observed in the presence of heat release by combustion. The observed transient and quasi-steady behaviours of the unstart shockwave system and the jet motion were similar in all of the test conditions. On the other hand, at the lip of inlet model, the unstart shockwave under the cold free stream condition exhibited a relatively steady behaviour while severe oscillatory flow motions of the jet and the unstart shockwave were observed in the combustion-driven unstart process. The different unstarted flow behaviours between the three flow conditions were explained using a simplified one-dimensional flow choking analysis and use of the Korkegi criterion.

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