LAPSE:2023.21144
Published Article
LAPSE:2023.21144
Unsteady Simulation of Ignition of Turbulent Reactive Swirling Flow of Novel Design of Solid-Fuel Ramjet Motor
Omer Musa, Xiong Chen, Yingkun Li, Weixuan Li, Wenhe Liao
March 21, 2023
This paper presents a numerical investigation of ignition and combustion stabilization of a novel design of a solid-fuel ramjet (SFRJ) motor with and without swirl flow. The proposed design includes two solid fuels, retaining the simple design of the classic SFRJ. Numerical simulations of unsteady, turbulent, reactive, and swirling flow coupled with solid-fuel pyrolysis have been performed using an in-house CFD solver. Experiments on SFRJ were conducted via a connected-pipe test facility to validate the developed code. Furthermore, the code was validated for chemical reactions, heat diffusion, and swirl flow by using benchmark test cases of shock-induced, semi-infinite plate, and dump combustor with swirl flow, respectively. Then, the proposed and classic designs were simulated for the same inflow conditions and configurations, and the results were analyzed and discussed. It is found that the mixing degree, reactant residence time, mass flux, ignition delay time, and regression rate improve when using the proposed design. Moreover, the proposed design reveals interesting observations of a new flame being created and merged with the main flame.
Keywords
combustion characteristics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, propulsion, ramjet, solid fuel
Suggested Citation
Musa O, Chen X, Li Y, Li W, Liao W. Unsteady Simulation of Ignition of Turbulent Reactive Swirling Flow of Novel Design of Solid-Fuel Ramjet Motor. (2023). LAPSE:2023.21144
Author Affiliations
Musa O: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China; Mechanical Engineering Department, Omdurman Islamic University, Omdurman 11111, Sudan [ORCID]
Chen X: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Li Y: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Li W: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Liao W: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Journal Name
Energies
Volume
12
Issue
13
Article Number
E2513
Year
2019
Publication Date
2019-06-29
Published Version
ISSN
1996-1073
Version Comments
Original Submission
Other Meta
PII: en12132513, Publication Type: Journal Article
Record Map
Published Article

LAPSE:2023.21144
This Record
External Link

doi:10.3390/en12132513
Publisher Version
Download
Files
[Download 1v1.pdf] (5.5 MB)
Mar 21, 2023
Main Article
License
CC BY 4.0
Meta
Record Statistics
Record Views
70
Version History
[v1] (Original Submission)
Mar 21, 2023
 
Verified by curator on
Mar 21, 2023
This Version Number
v1
Citations
Most Recent
This Version
URL Here
https://psecommunity.org/LAPSE:2023.21144
 
Original Submitter
Auto Uploader for LAPSE
Links to Related Works
Directly Related to This Work
Publisher Version