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Preliminary research of terminal shock motion in tandem configuration turbine-based combined cycle inlet

Part of: APISAT 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2017

J. Liu ,
H. Yuan ,
Z. Hua ,
W. Chen  and
N. Ge
J. Liu*
Affiliation:
Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power Systems, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
H. Yuan*
Affiliation:
Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power Systems, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
Z. Hua
Affiliation:
AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, Shenyang, People's Republic of China
W. Chen
Affiliation:
Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power Systems, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
N. Ge
Affiliation:
Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power Systems, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
*
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Abstract

The pressure oscillation and terminal shock motion in a two dimensional inlet, which was designed for tandem configuration turbine-based combined cycle propulsion systems was investigated experimentally and numerically, respectively. The inlet was characterised by a bleed cavity upstream the inlet throat, an S-shape rectangular-to-circular diffuser and flowpaths for a turbine and a ramjet engine. The terminal shock motion was calculated through a second-order unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes scheme. The pressure and the terminal shock were unsteady when the combined cycle inlet operated at different conditions. With the terminal shock located in the throat and at the shoulder of the third ramp of the TBCC inlet, the pressure oscillation was significant and the shock exhibited unsteady streamwise motion with an oscillatory pattern. The amplitude of shock oscillation at these two conditions was 6mm and 12mm, respectively. When the shock was located downstream of the throat and upstream of the cowl lip, it oscillated in a small range. We defined this motion as the “shake” of the shock. This unsteady behaviour of the shock was caused by flow separation in the combined cycle inlet diffuser.

Keywords

hypersonic vehiclecombined cycle propulsion systemstandem configuration turbine-based combined cycle inletterminal shock oscillationwind-tunnel experimentunsteady numerical simulation
Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 121 , Issue 1237 , March 2017 , pp. 416 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2017 

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