Detonation of a hydrogen-oxygen gas mixture in a plane-radial combustor with exhaustion toward the periphery in the regime of oxygen ejection

Abstract

The results of experimental study concerning a continuous spin detonation of hydrogen-oxygen mixture in a flow-through plane-radial combustor with a diameter of 10 cm and with exhaustion toward the periphery in the regime of oxygen ejection are presented. In the experiment, the regimes of continuous spin detonation with one and two transverse detonation waves rotating with velocity D = 1.3÷1.43 and 1.45÷1.54 km/s, measured relative to the inner cylindrical surface of the combustor, respectively, and two near-sonic waves rotating with velocities of about 0.7 km/s have been observed. The waves of pulse combustion with frequencies of 4.4 – 3.6 kHz have been found for the first time. The structure of waves and flow in their vicinity has been studied.