Projectile Base Bleed Technology; Part 2. User's Guide CMINT Computer Code, Version 5.04-BRL

Abstract

Detailed finite rate chemistry models for H2 and H2-CO combustion have been incorporated into a Navier-Stokes computer code and applied to flow field simulation in the base region of an M864 base burning projectile. Results without base injection were obtained using a low Reynolds number k-epsilon turbulence model and several mixing length turbulence models. The results with base injection utilized only the Baldwin-Lomax model for the Projectile forebody and the Chow wake mixing model downstream of the projectile base. A validation calculation was performed for a supersonic hydrogen-air burner using an H2 reaction set which is a subset of the H2-CO reaction set developed for the base combustion modeling. The comparison with the-available experimental data was good, and provides a level of validation for the technique and code developed Projectile base injection calculations were performed for a flat base M864 projectile at M infinity = 2. Hot air injection, H2 injection and H2-CO injection were modeled, and computed results show reasonable trends in the base pressure increase (base drag reduction), base corner expansion and downstream wake closure location.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA258630

Entities

People

  • Howard J. Gibeling
  • Richard C. Buggeln

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Convection
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Reynolds Number
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics