The design of thermal management system for hypersonic launch vehicles based on active cooling networks
| Autor: | Chunlin Gong, Chang Yue, Jian-Jun Gou, Zheng-Wei Yan, Bing Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Hypersonic speed
Materials science Iterative design business.industry 020209 energy Aerodynamic heating Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology Heat transfer coefficient Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Coolant 020401 chemical engineering Space Shuttle thermal protection system Heat transfer Active cooling 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0204 chemical engineering Aerospace engineering business |
| Zdroj: | Applied Thermal Engineering. 159:113938 |
| ISSN: | 1359-4311 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.113938 |
| Popis: | In this paper, a design method of thermal management system (TMS) for hypersonic vehicles is developed. The system consists of a passive thermal protection system (TPS) and an active cooling network (ACN) with coolant of kerosene. In most previous studies, the passive TPS and ACN are always designed separately and thus leads to over-conservative results that deviating from real engineering conditions. A coupled design method is developed in present work, and the process includes calculation of aerodynamic heat, determination of passive TPS concept distribution, computation of TPS and ACN scales, and iterative design. The coupled design is realized based on two keys, the active cooling is coupled in aerodynamic heating and heat transfer in TPS by an equivalent thermal equilibrium model, and the overall capacity of active cooling is indicated by an equivalent heat transfer coefficient. The model and the coefficient act as the rationale and the equivalent parameter of the whole process, respectively. The TMS of a reusable launch vehicle is established under a typical trajectory. The influences of equivalent heat transfer coefficient on aerodynamic heating, passive TPS and ACN are studied. The results show that the weight of passive TPS decreases, while the coolant mass flow rate increases with the enhancement of active cooling. |
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