Performance of an sfrj with an aft-mixing section utilizing bypass air. Evans, J., V., Senior, W., C., Gejji, R., M., Strahan, N., L., & Slabaugh, C., D. In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, pages 1-10, 2021. AIAA Paper 2021-1876.
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The effect of secondary injection of air downstream of the combustor of a model solid-fuel ramjet (SFRJ) combustor on its global performance is studied. The SFRJ is operated with heated non-vitiated air (2 = 387-727 °F, = 2.31-3.81 lbm/s) and cylindrical, center-perforated HTPB fuel grains. The secondary air bypass ratio is varied from 0-30%. For comparable operating conditions, the use of the aft-mixing section (AMS) resulted in an improvement in combustion efficiency from ∼85% to ∼95% and increase in from ∼110 s to ∼130 s. The bypass air was introduced into the AMS using circumferential jet injection at momentum flux ratios of 3-3.5 and 20. For comparable operating conditions, the = 20 cases had a slightly lower combustion efficiency than the = 3-3.5 cases. The jet trajectory and heat-release in the AMS were characterized using broadband chemiluminescence performed at 6 kHz and CH* chemiluminescence performed at 50 kHz.

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