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Knowlen, C., Mundt, T., Kurosaka, M. |
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Shock Waves; Apr2023, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p237-252, 16p |
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An ongoing rotating detonation rocket engine program is investigating the influence of combustor annulus radii on RDRE operating characteristics with flat-faced impinging injectors. To facilitate the isolation of all but the radius of curvature effects in the experiments, the annular gap was kept constant at 5 mm in combustors having either 25-mm or 51-mm outer diameter. The mixing processes were kept similar by utilizing injectors with the same net injector-to-annular gap area ratio (AR = 0.11), same radial separation distance of the orifices, and same center-of-gap impingement distance from the front-end wall. The wave dynamics, plenum pressure, and axial pressure profiles in these RDREs were compared over the mass flux and equivalence ratio ranges of 80 - 400 kg/s/m 2 and 0.26 - 2.6, respectively, with gaseous methane–oxygen propellant. Experiments showed that stable one-wave operation would occur in the 25-mm RDRE at most mass fluxes where stable two-wave operation was established in the 51-mm RDRE. Stable one-wave operation with a single counter-rotating wave was maintained in the 51-mm RDRE at mass fluxes of 240 kg/s/m 2 and below. Under these fueling conditions in the 25-mm RDRE, a counter-rotating wave also appeared while it operated with a single dominant wave. The wave spin speeds were typically 20–40% less than the Chapman–Jouguet detonation speed of the propellant and depended only on mass flux and wave number rather than the annulus diameter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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