Abstract
An investigation on effects of a focused laser pulse for combustion enhancement characteristics was conducted for supersonic airstreams with a transverse hydrogen-fuel injection. In order to estimate behaviors of a laser-induced plasma, temporal variations of its emission distribution were measured with an ICCD camera and photodiodes. From these measurements, characteristic time scales of an absorption process of an incident laser pulse and a plasma formation process were also estimated. Numerical simulations using a time-dependant Navier–Stokes equation with finite-rate chemistry were also conducted to elucidate laser-induced ignition and mixing enhancement characteristics in supersonic airstreams with a transverse hydrogen injection. From the results, it was confirmed that, depending on the laser energy density and focal points, radicals, a shock wave, and shock-induced local turbulences were being formed through laser irradiation. Then, recirculation zones with flamelets were induced. Moreover, it was shown that these flamelets were growing in moving upstream and downstream from the focal point up to 1 ms. Consequently, it was shown that laser-induced plasmas could be effective in both combustion reaction and mixing enhancements for the supersonic combustion.
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