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An Experimental Assessment of Combustion Stability of Coaxial Swirl Injectors and an Impinging Injector through Simulating Combustion Test

상압기상연소시험을 통한 동축형 스월 분사기와 충돌형 분사기의 연소 안정성 평가

  • Park, Junhyeong (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Hongjip (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2016.10.06
  • Accepted : 2017.03.10
  • Published : 2017.03.30
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Abstract

High-frequency combustion instabilities may occur during the development of feasible engine combustors. These instabilities can result in irreparable damages to the wall of combustors or the degradation of engine performance. So, it is essential to identify injectors that have high stability characteristics during the early stages of development. The objective of present study was to assess the stability of coaxial injectors and an impinging injector with different recess lengths in order to develop stable injectors optimally. Stability margin was evaluated based on the distance from operating condition to the unstable regions. A simulating combustion test method was used to analyze the stability of injectors. A small-scale combustion chamber was designed to simulate the first tangential acoustic mode of the actual combustor. Gaseous oxygen and a mixture of methane and propane were used as simulant propellants to satisfy their flow similarity to the actual propellants of a combustor in a liquid rocket combustor. The results indicated that injectors having small recess lengths showed relatively large combustion stability margins. For the injectors of large recess lengths, instability regions with large and super-large amplitude oscillations were observed. Thus, injector with shorter recess lengths had a higher stability than that of longer one due to the different mixing processes.

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