Analytical and Experimental Studies on Mixing in Supersonic Flows

Analytical and Experimental Studies on Mixing in Supersonic Flows
Author: Vijay Gopal
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Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021
Genre: Airplanes
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Mixing enhancement in supersonic flow is an important domain of research for enabling the realization of efficient and scalable high speed air-breathing engines (scramjet).Introducing streamwise vorticies in supersonic flow and tailoring their interactions for mixing enhancement is the primary motivation for the present research study. Leveraging the research performed in the group at the Aerodynamics Research Center (ARC), systematic experimental studies on mixing enhancement is carried out in supersonic flows by tailoring the selected modes of stream wise vortex interactions with the aid of in-house developed reduced order method VorTX. This method utilizes the lifting line-vortex theory in supersonic flow to perform rapid simulations of streamwise vortex-interactions that serves as a guide to design the mixing experiments. One of the difficulties associated with scaling the simulations to higher Mach numbers (M > 4) arise from the strong influence of the singularities along the Mach cones emanating from the lifting line-vortex that results in physically inconsistent solution. In this work a fundamental study on vorticity distribution in linearized supersonic flow is carried out. The origin of the aforementioned singularities on the Mach cone is discussed in detail, and the potential candidates for vorticity distribution are proposed to eliminate the singularities and to provide a physically consistent solution of the flow field in supersonic flow. This study presents the successful solution for the elimination of the singularities that has allowed to extend the capability of VorTX to simulate vortex-interactions at higher Mach numbers. Experimental studies on supersonic mixing were carried out using a strut injection platform with vortex generating ramps to introduce streamwise voriticies in supersonic flow. The geometrical configuration of the ramps are chosen using the upgraded VorTX simulations to target the experimental study of two selected modes of vortex interactions. One is the merging of two co-rotating vorticies and the other is the non-merging case where the vorticies interact but do not merge. Mixing measurements in supersonic flow were carried out using the Filtered Rayleigh Scattering (FRS)technique. The measurement yields the mole-fraction of helium (injectant) in a binary mixture of air and helium in supersonic flow. The distributions of helium mole-fraction in the cross flow planes are used to draw conclusions on the level of mixing in the two modes of vortex-interaction. The FRS technique requires two independent experiments. One with helium injection in supersonic air flow and the other with air injection in an identical supersonic air flow. At a given cross-flow plane, to obtain the helium mole-fraction distribution using the FRS signals it is assumed that the total number density is matched in both the experiments. To enhance the reliability of the FRS measurement technique, it is important to minimize and quantify the systematic errors that arise from the assumptions made, particularly, the assumption on matching the total number density. In this work, a method to reduce the systematic errors in FRS experiments is proposed for a canonical case study of a rectangular jet in supersonic flow. To do this, a reduced order model for a rectangular jet in supersonic air flow is successfully developed in order to guide the selection of appropriate injector's plenum conditions to minimize the systematic errors in the future FRS experiments and to retrospectively evaluate and correct the FRS measurements for systematic errors in previously available FRS data on parallel strut injection in supersonic flow.

Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Injectors with Large Secondary Mass Flows

Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Injectors with Large Secondary Mass Flows
Author: Alfred C. Pinchak
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Total Pages: 57
Release: 1966
Genre: Fluid mechanics
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A series of experimental tests were performed with air:air constant area supersonic injectors, and typical results are presented here. Data were taken with secondary mass flows, both larger and smaller in magnitude than the primary mass flow. One of the constant area injectors produced a remarkable pumping efficiency of 30% with equal mass flows in the primary and secondary. A special constant area mixing tube was constructed and tested. This test indicated a ratio 5

Supersonic Mixing Enhancement by Vorticity for High-Speed Propulsion

Supersonic Mixing Enhancement by Vorticity for High-Speed Propulsion
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2018-07-16
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ISBN: 9781722791841

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The results of a three year study on vortex enhancement of supersonic mixing are discussed. Recent interests in compressible mixing has spurred research in the field of high speed shear layers. It was established that shear layer growth diminishes with increasing convective Mach number; this Mach number is the relative Mach number of the large scale structures in the shear layer with respect to the Mach numbers on either side of the shear layer. The purpose was to evaluate the effect of swirl on compressible mixing rates. Previously analytical and experimental results seem to indicate that swirling flow may significantly modify the shear layer, in some cases resulting in enhanced mixing. Previous studies of the effect of swirl on compressible mixing were incomplete since the amount of swirl in the flowfield was not quantified. This study was undertaken to conclusively determine the effect of swirl on supersonic mixing, including the quantification of the swirl. Preliminary results indicate that the swirl modestly enhances the mixing rates. Settles, Gary S. Unspecified Center...

Chemical Reactions in Turbulent Mixing Flows

Chemical Reactions in Turbulent Mixing Flows
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Total Pages: 45
Release: 1990
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This research conducted fundamental investigations of turbulent mixing, chemical reaction and combustion processes in turbulent, subsonic and supersonic flows. This program is comprised of an experimental effort, an analytical effort, a computational effort, a modeling effort, and a diagnostics development and data-acquisition effort; the latter as dictated by specific needs of the experimental part of the overall program. Our approach has been to carry out a series of detailed theoretical and experimental studies primarily in two, well-defined, fundamentally important flow fields: free shear layers and axisymmetric jets. To elucidate molecular transport effects, experiments and theory concern themselves with both liquids and gases, primarily in moderate to high Reynolds number flows. Modeling has been focused on both shear layers and turbulent jets, with an effort to include the physics of the molecular transport processes, as well as formulations of models that permit the full chemical kinetics of the combustion process to be incorporated. Our recent analytical efforts have concentrated on a hydrodynamic analysis of the stability of compressible shear layers. The computational studies are, at present, focussed at fundamental issues pertaining to the computational simulation of both compressible and incompressible flows.

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Combustion

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Combustion
Author: Antonio Ferri
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Total Pages: 136
Release: 1962
Genre: Aerodynamics, Transonic
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A theoretical and experimental investigation of mixing and supersonic combustion is presented. A review of the problem under investigation is given. Then an analysis of inviscid flow fields with a finite rate chemistry for a hydrogen-air reaction is presented, an an analysis of a turbulent mixing for flows with large density gradients with no chemical reaction is presented. The analysis is compared wit the experimental results. Results of the experiments in upersonic combustion are presented. (Author).