Mixing and Combustion of Hydrogen in a Supersonic Airstream.

Abstract

The report is concerned with the mixing and combustion of hydrogen in a high enthalpy Mach 3.5 airstream, in which the conditions are such that the combustion process is mixing limited. The high enthalpy conditions are obtained using a combustion driven hypersonic shock tunnel. A gas composition probe having a response time of 0.25 msec. has been constructed and used in contamination and combustion studies. Combustion results have been obtained from a 2-D Mach 3.5 test section using both a mid-stream vortex generating injector and a plain wedge injector. The turbulent mixing characteristics of the two wakes were determined using a semi-quantitative approach which utilizes well established relationships of structural turbulence theory. The results of this analysis showed the importance of the initial turbulence generation on the overall mixing process. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0731239

Entities

People

  • Malcolm Thomas Jacques

Organizations

  • University of Sheffield

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combustion
  • Contamination
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Enthalpy
  • Hydrogen
  • Injectors
  • Mixing
  • Shock Tunnels
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow