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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (12): 131429.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2024.31429

• Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics • Previous Articles    

Spray distribution characteristics of integrated strut flameholder

Jie WU1, Yushuai LIU2, Yong MU2, Qingchun LEI1(), Wei FAN1   

  1. 1.School of Power and Energy,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710129,China
    2.Laboratory of Light-duty Gas-turbine,Institute of Engineering Thermophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
  • Received:2024-10-22 Revised:2024-11-29 Accepted:2024-12-20 Online:2024-12-31 Published:2024-12-30
  • Contact: Qingchun LEI E-mail:lqc@nwpu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Science and Technology Major Project of China (J2019-Ⅲ-0004-0047);Taishan Scholars

Abstract:

As traditional structures encounter numerous challenges with continuous improvement of inlet parameters in afterburners, integrated design has become the mainstream trend. However, research on integrated strut flameholder with unconventional parameters is still relatively scarce, and there is a notable scarcity in the variety of trailing edge configurations explored. Therefore, this study presents a design for trailing edge configuration of an integrated strut flameholder used in afterburner. The characteristics of liquid spray distribution under varied conditions are investigated, including inlet cosine rotation angles ranging from -25° to 25°, inlet pressures from 0.1 to 0.7 MPa, fuel injection angles from 30° to 150°, nozzle diameters from 0.5 to 1.4 mm, and liquid-to-air momentum ratios from 33 to 124. Additionally, seven other trailing edge configurations are compared to study their potential influences on jet atomization. The experiments demonstrate that increasing inlet pressure and negative inlet cosine rotation angle (leeward side) result in reduced jet trajectory and penetration depth. Conversely, increasing nozzle diameter and the reverse fuel injection angle between 90° and 110°, along with the positive inlet cosine rotation angle below 25°, lead to increased jet penetration depth, higher trajectory, and gradual enlargement of the void area. The different trailing edge configurations named A–I in this article have minimal impact on the outer trajectory of the jet, but significantly affect the inner boundary. The liquid-to-air momentum ratio plays a critical role in jet penetration depth, while the Weber number has a less influence.

Key words: afterburner, integrated strut flameholder, injection angle, inlet pressure, cosine rotation angle

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