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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2016.44.7.585

Flame Interaction with Shear Layer Flow in the Post Chamber of Hybrid Rocket  

Moon, Young Joo (Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Konkuk University)
Lee, Changjin (Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Konkuk University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.44, no.7, 2016 , pp. 585-592 More about this Journal
Abstract
Visualization was done by using $CH^*$ chemiluminescence images and PMT measurements in order to understand the origin of fluctuating pressure and chemical luminosity at about 500 Hz frequency even in stable combustion, which was observed in recent experimental tests, and to find the physical correlation leading to Low Frequency Instability(LFI) in terms of phase angle. In stable combustion, chemical reactions are distributed along the shear layer flow showing a negative coupling(about 180 degree in phase angle) with combustion pressure. However, phase difference is shifted to a positive coupling showing less than 90 degree in unstable case. Also a periodic change in the distribution of chemical reactions is observed along with local flame extinction and the appearance of big scale vortex flow. In the transition to LFI, local flame extinction and small vortex flow start to appear in a row. As seen in the bluff body wake in reactive flow, the periodic appearance of vortex flow seems to share the same physical process of BVK(Bernard Von Karman) instability generation. Thus, the appearance of local extinction in 500 Hz fluctuations is gradually amplified to complete extinctions of about 20 Hz, and it leads into LFI.
Keywords
Hybrid Rocket; Combustion Visualization; Combustion Instability; Flame Extinction;
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