Numerical investigation on detonation control using a pulse hot jet in supersonic combustible mixture

Abstract

To investigate the mechanism of detonation control using a pulse hot jet in the supersonic hydrogen-oxygen mixture, high-resolution simulations with a detailed reaction model were conducted using an adaptive mesh refinement method. After the successful detonation initiation, a contractive passway was generated between the hot jet and the main flow field behind the detonation front. Due to the contractive passway, the expansion of detonation products was prevented, hence resulting in overdriven detonation. By setting up various contractive passways through adjusting the width of the hot jet, the overdrive degree of overdriven detonation also changes. It is suggested that the width of the hot jet has approximately linear relation with the relative and absolute propagation velocities. When the contractive passway gradually disappeared after the shutdown of the hot jet, overdriven detonation attenuated to the dynamically stable Chapman-Jouguet (CJ) detonation. When the contractive passway was re-established once again after the re-injection of the hot jet, the CJ detonation developed to the same overdriven detonation, indicating that the contractive passway controlled by the pulse hot jet can indeed control detonation propagation in the supersonic combustible mixture to some extent.

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ORCID for Ralf Deiterding: orcid.org/0000-0003-4776-8183

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