Hypersonic Combustion — Status and Directions

Autor: Griffin Y. Anderson
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: ICASE/LaRC Interdisciplinary Series in Science and Engineering ISBN: 9789401044561
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1050-1_2
Popis: Man’s imagination has long been sparked by flight. Today sustained manned flight at hypersonic speed remains the largest unexplored region of the possible flight envelope. True aerospace planes flying at near orbital speeds will require a new form of airbreathing engine — the supersonic combustion ramjet or scramjet — and will also be required to “break the thermal barrier” with active fuel cooling of the engine and vehicle to survive. This paper will briefly review the internal flow environment of scramjets and discuss some of the relevant issues which arise in attempts to produce meaningful ground simulations of these flows. Some recent computational studies of the potential influence of injector design variables on performance will be reviewed as an example of the application of CFD to hypersonic combustion modeling. In addition, some projections to the future as to where emphasis should be placed in developing experimental capability and in extending computer modeling will be put forward.
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