Simulation of Flow Unsteadiness in Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser Devices

Abstract

3-DIMENSIONAL Navier-Stokes simulations of chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) hardware are performed to elucidate the unsteady fluid dynamic aspects of these flowfields. Reacting (COIL) and non-reacting flow simulations are performed on varying resolution grids to explore the unsteadiness, and comparisons to experimental data are made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 08, 2005
Accession Number
ADA440193

Entities

People

  • Timothy J. Madden

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Chemical Oxygen Iodine Lasers
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gas Flow
  • Lasers
  • Mach Number
  • Simulations
  • Steady State
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy