Effects of Transverse Jet Parameters on Flame Propagation and Detonation Transition in Hydrogen–Oxygen–Argon Mixture

ABSTRACT

Two-dimensional numerical simulation is performed with the open-source program AMROC to study the effects of transverse jets (act as fluidic obstacles within a detonation tube) on the flame acceleration and deflagration to detonation transition (DDT). The slot transverse jets have been studied and compared with conventional solid obstacles in tubes. The jet initial parameters, such as mixture composition, stagnation temperature, pressure, and mass flow rate, are investigated. The results demonstrate that a hydrogen-oxygen-argon reactive fluidic obstacle leads to the shortest DDT distance and time compared with solid obstacles and fluidic obstacles composed of pure oxygen or argon. The fluidic obstacles can induce more vorticities to accelerate flame propagation. The DDT distance and time decrease with the jet initial temperature, pressure, and mass flow rate rise, while a high jet initial stagnation temperature is counterproductive to shorting DDT distance and time. The local static pressure rise plays an important role in flame acceleration when increasing the initial pressure of the fluidic obstacle. Higher jet pressure and a wider jet induce more compression waves, which can make the initial flame front more unstable and accelerate the flame as well.

KEYWORDS:

• Flame acceleration
• DDT
• transverse jets
• flame-vortex interaction
• numerical simulation

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [number 51876182 and 51406171]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant [number 20720180058]; Aeronautics Power Foundation under Grant [number 6141B090325]; Foundation of Science and Technology on Scramjet Laboratory under Grant [number 614270302060417].