Design of Effective Working Diameters of Rotating Detonation Engine

Yan Ming Liu, Yang Qin, Cheng Wang*, Chun Hui Jiang

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Abstract

One-step Arrhenius reaction model was used with no consideration of the effect of viscosity, heat transmission and diffusion on flow for mixtures of H2/Air to simulate two-dimensional rotating detonation engine(RDE) to research on RDE's effective diameter range. The inviscid flux was discreted with fifth-order WENO scheme, and the time integration was performed with three-order Runge-Kutta Scheme. The results show that the critical diameter of RDE is 0.51l in specific conditions, where l refers to the axial length, only when the diameter is larger than the critical diameter can RDE work properly. As the diameter increases, the thrust, specific impulse, detonation wave height and the wave propagation velocity increase gradually. The upper limit of RDE's diameter is about 2.80l, which comes from Lagrange quadratic interpolation. The effective diameter range of RDE(taking l as the length unit) in this specific condition is 0.51≤L*≤2.80.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)573-578
Number of pages6
JournalBeijing Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Transaction of Beijing Institute of Technology
Volume37
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2017

Keywords

  • Critical diameter
  • Diameter range
  • Performance analysis
  • Rotating detonation engine

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