Study on concentration distribution and detonation characteristics of typical multiphase fuel in orthogonal flow field

Linghui Zeng, Zhongqi Wang*, Jianping Li, Xing Chen

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Abstract

The fuel concentration distribution and detonation characteristics are important for performance evaluation. In order to meet the needs of airdrop, launcher and missile, the transient flow and detonation process of multiphase fuel in orthogonal flow field are analyzed by experiments and numerical simulations. The dynamic detonation model of ethyl ether (EE), propylene oxide (PO) and tetrahydro dicyclopentadiene (JP-10) is built. The flow process, concentration distribution, overpressure, temperature and detonation wave structure of the three fuels are obtained. The results show that the falling velocity has obvious influence on the detonation process of fuel droplets. The falling velocity of 0.5 Ma makes the fuel concentration distribution more uniform and the energy output is better. The peak overpressure of EE, PO and JP-10 is 2.88 MPa, 3.21 MPa and 2.96 MPa respectively. The peak temperature is 2885 K, 3230 K and 2955 K respectively. The burn out rate increases by 8.5%, 8.1% and 13.7% respectively. JP-10 has higher sensitivity to falling velocity, and there are obvious secondary peaks of overpressure in low-speed state. PO has higher stability for falling velocity, and the scaled length of high temperature/pressure after detonation wave is 0.145 m·kg-1/3.

Original languageEnglish
Article number109704
JournalAerospace Science and Technology
Volume155
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2024

Keywords

  • Concentration distribution
  • Detonation
  • Falling velocity
  • Multiphase fuel
  • Orthogonal flow

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