Effect of vane thickness on radiometric force

2013 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 684-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Ventura ◽  
Natalia Gimelshein ◽  
Sergey Gimelshein ◽  
Andrew Ketsdever

AbstractA numerical and experimental study of radiometric forces on vanes of different thickness is presented for the flow regime where the radiometric force is near its maximum. For single- and multi-vane geometries, it is shown that radiometric force decreases by only ∼10–15 % when the vane thickness-to-height ratio increases fourfold from 0.5 to 2. For a single-vane geometry, the shear force on the lateral side of the vane is attributed to a vortex flow generated by the interaction of cold chamber walls and heated walls of the vane. In that case, it always acts to reduce the total radiometric force governed by the pressure difference between the hot and the cold sides of the vane. For a multi-vane geometry, represented by a perforated vane, the shear force becomes positive for larger thickness-to-height ratios and lower pressures, primarily due to strong vane-driven transpiration flow through the gaps.

1961 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris Perlmutter

An analytical and experimental study of flow in headers with a resistance parallel to the turbulent and incompressible main stream has been made. The purpose was to shape the inlet and exit headers, which had a large length-to-height ratio, so that the fluid would pass through the resistance uniformly. Analytical wall shapes and estimated total pressure drop through the headers were compared with experimental results. Good agreement between analysis and experiment was found for the cases compared.


2010 ◽  
Vol 114 (1155) ◽  
pp. 333-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vengadesan ◽  
C. Sony

Abstract The Trapped Vortex Combustor (TVC) is a new design concept in which cavities are designed to trap a vortex flow structure established through the use of driver air jets located along the cavity walls. TVC offers many advantages when compared to conventional swirl-stabilised combustors. In the present work, numerical investigation of cold flow (non-reacting) through the two-cavity trapped vortex combustor is performed. The numerical simulation involves passive flow through the two-cavity TVC to obtain an optimum cavity size to trap stable vortices inside the second cavity and to observe the characteristics of the two cavity TVC. From the flow attributes, it is inferred that vortex stability is achieved by circulation and the vortex is trapped inside when a second afterbody is added.


2012 ◽  
Vol 560-561 ◽  
pp. 1103-1113
Author(s):  
Zheng Gang Xiao ◽  
Wei Dong He ◽  
San Jiu Ying ◽  
Fu Ming Xu

To acquire better understanding of the early ignition phenomena in 100mm ignition simulator loaded with packed propellant bed, a theoretical model of ignition gas flow through rigid porous media is developed. Three pressure gauges are installed in the lateral side of ignition simulator for chamber pressure measurements after ignition. The pseupropellant loaded in the chamber is similar to the standard 13/19 single-base cylindrical propellant in size. It is composed of rigid ceramic composite with low thermo conductivity. It is assumed that the pseupropellant bed is rigid in contrast to the previous elastic porous media assumption. The calculated pressure values can be verified by the experimental data well at the low loading density of pseupropellant bed of 0.18 g/cm3. However, there is still error between the experimental and calculated results in the early pressure peak position close to the ignition primer when the loading density of pseupropellant bed increases to 0.73 and 1.06g/cm3, due to the change of local permeability of pseupropellant bed at high loading density, which is assumed a constant in the model for the modeling easily. The calculations can enable better understanding of physical processes of ignition gas flow in the ignition simulator loaded with the pseupropellant bed.


1985 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-676
Author(s):  
V. P. Isakov ◽  
V. N. Fedoseev ◽  
O. I. Shanin ◽  
S. T. Shchetnikova

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