Effect of Blockage Ratio on Detonation Flame Acceleration in Pulse Detonation Combustor Using CFD

Abstract:

Detonation is the supersonic mode of combustion process which is essential for energy release from combustion process. Detonation is the more energetic process compare to deflagration mode of combustion process. The turbulence combustion flame cannot transit itself into detonation combustion process. So objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of obstacles configuration landed in detonation tube channel to propagate the detonation wave and diffraction encounters in an obstacles site. Four different cases of obstacles blockage ratio (BR) 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 and 0.7 were studied for detonation flame acceleration in detonation tube. A three dimensional computational simulation was done using unsteady green-gauss cell based solver for adopting the combustion simulation. As a result detonation flame propagation, detonation flame velocity and detonation flame pressure were increase in reducing blockage ratio from 0.7 to 0.4 and eddy viscosity of combustible mixture was increase with increasing the blockage ratio. From the analyzed four blockage ratio BR=0.4 is suitable for detonation mode of combustion and flame acceleration.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 656)
• Pages: 64-71
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.656.64
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Pinku Debnath, Krishna Murari Pandey*
• Keywords: Blockage Ratio, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Detonation, Diffraction, Pulse Detonation Engine

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