Numerical Study on Propulsion Performance Enhancement of Superdetonative mode Ram Accelerator by using strong mixture

  • Sung, Kun-Min (Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Jeung, In-Seuck (Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2008.03.30

Abstract

A numerical study is conducted to investigate propulsion performance enhancement based on S225 experiment case of ISL(French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis)'s superdetonative ram accelerator. For govern equation, multi-species Navier-Stokes equation coupled with Baldwin-Lomax turbulence modeling is used. Govern equation is discretized by Roe's FDS and integrated by LU-SGS time integration. Detailed chemical reaction about $H_2/O_2/CO_2$ for high pressure is considered. $2H_2+O_2+2.5CO_2$ mixture was used for propellant gas. For the same over-driven factor, the launching speed of computation was faster than one of S225. Another configuration and condition of S225 was applied. A flame structure is very different from S225. For strong mixture case, it shows ignition by viscous effect. Acceleration and speed increment is higher than S225 computation and experiment. By using more strong mixture, propulsion performance was enhanced.

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