In order to test the feasibility of a new thrust stand system based on impulse thrust mea- surement method, a liquid-fueled pulse detonation engine （PDE） is designed and built. Thrust per- formance of the engine is obtained by direct thrust measurement with a force transducer and indirect thrust measurement with an eddy current displacement sensor （ECDS）. These two sets of thrust data are compared with each other to verify the accuracy of the thrust performance. Then thrust data measured by the new thrust stand system are compared with the verified thrust data to test its feasibility. The results indicate that thrust data from the force transducer and ECDS system are consistent with each other within the range of measurement error. Though the thrust data from the impulse thrust measurement system is a litter lower than that from the force transducer due to the axial momentum losses of the detonation jet, the impulse thrust measurement method is valid when applied to measure the averaged thrust of PDE. Analytical models of PDE are also discussed in this paper. The analytical thrust performance is higher than the experimental data due to ignoring the losses during the deflagration to detonation transition process. Effect of equivalence ratio on the engine thrust performance is investigated by utilizing the modified analytical model. Thrust reaches maximum at the equivalence ratio of about 1.1.
Lu JieZheng LongxiWang ZhiwuPeng ChangxinChen Xinggu
为了研究吸气式脉冲爆震发动机缓燃向爆震转变(deflagration to detonation transition,简称DDT)过程的特性,以丙烷和空气为燃料,对吸气式无阀脉冲爆震发动机的DDT过程进行二维数值模拟,并研究了点火能量和点火源数目对DDT过程的影响,分析了点火能量不同导致DDT过程差异的原因。数值模拟结果表明,在DDT过程中,激波以及反射激波的相互作用在爆震波的起爆方面起主导作用;在所模拟的小点火能量范围内,点火能量越高,DDT时间越短,但DDT距离却变化不大;在总点火能量一致的情况下,采用双点火源点火能够缩短DDT距离。
