COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF STRUT FLAME HOLDER FOR SCRAMJET

Computational studies were performed to examine different strut configurations to determine their mixing characteristics with minimum losses for possibly use in scramjet-combustor applications. Several conceptual strut designs were placed in a rectangular flow path and tested to provide a better understanding of the flow physics, in terms of pressure loss, vorticity magnitude, streamlines and velocity vectors. The Pressure loss and fuel distribution patterns of injectors designed for a supersonic combustion ramjet were to be tested at a freestream Mach numbers of 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10. The most significant parameters affecting the Pressure loss was found to be the Swept angle of strut, injector thickness ratio and location of fuel ports on the struts including the leading edge, side, tip and wall. The performance of these strut-injection designs is determined based on pressure loss and vorticity magnitude. Hydrogen gas was injected through the struts to simulate the penetration and spreading patterns fuel. Realizable K- turbulence model is used to make the computational studies.

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THRUST REVESER USING CFD A key component of an aircraft power plant system is the thrust reverser. The thrust reverser considered in this paper uses the natural blockage concept, with only the fan duct flow being reversed. This report focuses on the study of the aerodynamic performance of the cascade within a cold stream thrust reverser. Aerodynamic simulations are carried out using realistic operating conditions, for idealized cascade models representing three design options. The aim of this work is to investigate whether the aerodynamic performance of the thrust reverser cascade has been improved while minimizing weight of the cascade. REFERENCE: Luis Gustavo Trapp and Guilherem L. Oliveriram. Aircraft Thrust Reverser Cascade Configuration Evaluation Through CFD. AIAA 2002-0723, 2002.

CFD Analysis of Supersonic Combustion Supersonic combustion ramjet engine is considered to be viable propulsive system for hypersonic vehicle. As the combustion is taking place at supersonic speeds, the flow has very less residence time (milliseconds) in the combustor. An attempt has been made to review fuel-air mixing and Combustion efficiency with normal and tangential fuel injection. The shocks generated and vorticity generated in the combustor acts as a flameholder and increases the residence time of flow. The two-dimensional coupled implicit Navier Stokes equations, reailizable k- turbulence model and the finite-rate/eddy-dissipation reaction model have been applied to numerically simulate flow field of the hydrogen fueled scramjet combustor under two different working conditions, namely, cold flow and engine ignition. Hydrogen and H2O mass fractions left at the outlet are considered as complete fuel-air mixing and combustion efficiency. REFERENCE: Paull, A. (2006). "Performance of

a Scramjet Combustor with combined Normal and

Tangential Fuel Injection." Journal of Propulsion and Power 22(5).

CFD ANALYSIS ON SCRAMJET ENGINE INLET Generally a Scramjet Engine starts at a hypersonic freestream Mach no. 5.00. In order to propel to those speeds, we use turbojet engines which propel to around 3.00-4.00 Mach and from there the ramjet picks upon and starts to propel to start the scramjet engine. Now if we reduce the scramjet engine starting Mach number to say 3.50 or 4.00, we can eliminate one propulsion engine, i.e., ramjet engine and thus reducing weight and complexity. The flow analysis was carried out in CFD with varying number of Ramps. A two dimensional analysis was carried out in this project. GAMBIT was used to create a model. FLUENT was used to cover the flow analysis. REFERENCE: Analysis And Design Of A Hypersonic Scramjet Engine With A Starting Mach Number Of 4.00 By Kristen Nicole Roberts. August 2008 AIAA