Abstract
This work revisits the effect of losses on detonation characteristic length scales. Low-pressure experiments of the very regular hydrogen–oxygen–argon detonations in the straight narrow channel and along the exponentially diverging ramp were reported, demonstrating the significant role of losses in increasing detonation velocity deficits and cell sizes. Both the theoretically established and experimentally obtained relationships show the exponential sensitivity of detonation cell sizes to losses in terms of flow divergence, which is controlled by the global activation energy. The presence of losses modulates the lengthening of the characteristic detonation reaction zones and thus results in larger cell sizes, as indicated by the linear correlation characterizing the amplification of cell sizes and induction length. Moreover, the present work proposed an effective method for calibrating the ideal Chapman–Jouguet (CJ) detonation cell size from experiments, by adopting a revised formulism of Mirels' laminar-boundary-layer theory and also the generalized Zeldovich–von Neumann–Doering (ZND) model in the presence of flow divergence. Comparisons of the ZND-model calibrated ideal CJ detonation cell sizes from experiments with those from detailed numerical simulations show that, while differences still exist for the relatively high pressure cases, accounting for wall losses could excellently reconcile the discrepancy for the lower pressure cases, which appears to suggest no evident influence of the vibrational non-equilibrium effects for the hydrogen–oxygen–argon reactive system.
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