scholarly journals On some features of the use of high-speed conical valve for the incident shock wave formation in shock tubes

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
M. A. Kotov ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kiverin ◽  
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I. Yakovenko ◽  

The paper analyzes the gasdynamic evolution of the test mixture flow in the shock tube at the stage prior to reaction start. The numerical analysis clearly shows that the incepience of reaction kernels is associated with the specific features of flow development in the boundary layer behind an incident shock wave. It is shown that similar to the processes in the gas flow near a solid surface, the gasdynamic instability arises and develops in the flow behind a shock wave. The linear stage of instability development determines the formation of roll-up vortices at a certain distance behind the shock front. Further, at the nonlinear stage, these roll-up vortices transform in more complex structures that diffuse into the bulk flow. Evolution of vortices causes temperature redistribution on the scales of the boundary layer. On the one hand, there is a certain heating due to the kinetic energy dissipation. On the other hand, there are heat losses to the wall. As a result, the temperature field near the wall becomes nonuniform. The reflected shock amplifies temperature perturbations when interacts with the developed boundary layer. This mechanism determines the formation of hot kernels in which the reaction starts. So, the localized sites of exothermal reaction are arising providing conditions for reaction wave formation and propagation in the precompressed test gas.


Shock Waves ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bengoechea ◽  
J. Reiss ◽  
M. Lemke ◽  
J. Sesterhenn

AbstractAn optimisation study of a shock-wave-focusing geometry is presented in this work. The configuration serves as a reliable and deterministic detonation initiator in a pulsed detonation engine. The combustion chamber consists of a circular pipe with one convergent–divergent axisymmetric nozzle, acting as a focusing device for an incoming shock wave. Geometrical changes are proposed to reduce the minimum shock wave strength necessary for a successful detonation initiation. For that purpose, the adjoint approach is applied. The sensitivity of the initiation to flow variations delivered by this method is used to reshape the obstacle’s form. The thermodynamics is described by a higher-order temperature-dependent polynomial, avoiding the large errors of the constant adiabatic exponent assumption. The chemical reaction of stoichiometric premixed hydrogen-air is modelled by means of a one-step kinetics with a variable pre-exponential factor. This factor is adapted to reproduce the induction time of a complex kinetics model. The optimisation results in a 5% decrease of the incident shock wave threshold for the successful detonation initiation.


Author(s):  
Yun Jiao ◽  
Chengpeng Wang

An experimental study is conducted on the qualitative visualization of the flow field in separation and reattachment flows induced by an incident shock interaction by several techniques including shear-sensitive liquid crystal coating (SSLCC), oil flow, schlieren, and numerical simulation. The incident shock wave is generated by a wedge in a Mach 2.7 duct flow, where the strength of the interaction is varied from weak to moderate by changing the angle of attack α of the wedge from 8° and 10° to 12°. The stagnation pressure upstream was set to approximately 607.9 kPa. The SSLCC technique was used to visualize the surface flow characteristics and analyze the surface shear stress fields induced by the initial incident shock wave over the bottom wall and sidewall experimentally which resolution is 3500 × 200 pixels, and the numerical simulation was also performed as the supplement for a clearer understanding to the flow field. As a result, surface shear stress over the bottom wall was visualized qualitatively by SSLCC images, and flow features such as separation/reattachment and the variations of position/size of separation bubble with wedge angle were successfully distinguished. Furthermore, analysis of shear stress trend over the bottom wall by a hue value curve indicated that the relative magnitude of shear stress increased significantly downstream of the separation bubble compared with that upstream. The variation trend of shear stress was consistent with the numerical simulation results, and the error of separation position was less than 2 mm. Finally, the three-dimensional schematic of incident shock-induced interaction has been achieved by qualitative summary by multiple techniques, including SSLCC, oil flow, schlieren, and numerical simulation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 198 ◽  
pp. 104385
Author(s):  
Fulin Tong ◽  
Xinliang Li ◽  
Xianxu Yuan ◽  
Changping Yu

2013 ◽  
Vol 724 ◽  
pp. 259-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Mirshekari ◽  
M. Brouillette ◽  
J. Giordano ◽  
C. Hébert ◽  
J.-D. Parisse ◽  
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AbstractA fully instrumented microscale shock tube, believed to be the smallest to date, has been fabricated and tested. This facility is used to study the transmission of a shock wave, produced in a large (37 mm) shock tube, into a 34 $\mathrm{\mu} \mathrm{m} $ hydraulic diameter and 2 mm long microchannel. Pressure microsensors of a novel design, with gigahertz bandwidth, are used to obtain pressure–time histories of the microchannel shock wave at five axial stations. In all cases the transmitted shock wave is found to be weaker than the incident shock wave, and is observed to decay both in pressure and velocity as it propagates down the microchannel. These results are compared with various analytical and numerical models, and the best agreement is obtained with a Navier–Stokes computational fluid dynamics computation, which assumes a no-slip isothermal wall boundary condition; good agreement is also obtained with a simple shock tube laminar boundary layer model. It is also found that the flow developing within the microchannel is highly dependent on conditions at the microchannel entrance, which control the mass flux entering into the device. Regardless of the micrometre dimensions of the present facility, shock wave propagation in a microchannel of that scale exhibits a behaviour similar to that observed in large-scale facilities operated at low pressures, and the shock attenuation can be explained in terms of accepted laminar boundary models.


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