dc.contributor.advisor | Farokhi, Saeed | |
dc.contributor.author | Hwang, Seung-Jae | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-22T04:11:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-22T04:11:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-06-09 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11613 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8080 | |
dc.description.abstract | Numerical simulations of the scramjet combustor by using the commercial CFD code Fluent with the coupled implicit method with second-order accurate discretization have been obtained for the reacting flows with the parallel fuel injection (ramp injection) and normal fuel injection (wall injection) schemes. Incorporated in the scramjet combustors are delta tabs and suction collars of two types as means of mixing enhancement. The main mechanism of the tabs and suction collars for mixing enhancement is the generation of streamwise vorticity and providing outstanding flameholding capability along with the induced global instability of the shear layer. The idea has been previously recommended for mixing enhancement of the scramjet combustor, but no experimental or computational data on the combustor performance has been reported, yet. The finite rate reaction model is used for the species transport model that only considers four species, H2, O2, H2O and N2. Vitiated air (mass fraction of O2, H2O, and N2 being 0.198, 0.139, and 0.663, respectively) enters the combustor at Mach number of 2.5 at a stagnation temperature and pressure of 1500 K and 101,325 Pa, respectively. The equivalence ratio is fixed at 0.45 in the present study. An optimization study of the combinations of the tabs and suction collars has been performed. Uninstalled thrust force for the optimal combination which was composed of the relieved ramp, 4 delta tabs, suction collar type I and 4 delta tabs in the fuel inlet scheme produced an additional 73% increase in thrust with only an additional 3.37% loss of the total pressure compared to the ramp injection alone, i.e., the baseline case. The numerical results clearly indicate that the fuel injection schemes investigated in the present study are more efficient than a strut or multi-staged strut and wall injection scheme. | |
dc.format.extent | 104 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Aerospace engineering | |
dc.subject | Combustor | |
dc.subject | Enhanced | |
dc.subject | Mixing | |
dc.subject | Scramjet | |
dc.subject | Suction collar | |
dc.subject | Tabs | |
dc.title | Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Mixing in Scramjet Combustor Using Ramp, Tabs and Suction Collar | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Taghavi, Ray | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Barrett-Gonzalez, Ron | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Keshmiri, Shahriar | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Huang, Weizhang | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 7643013 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |