Numerical Investigation of Various Fuel Injection Angles on Interaction in Cold Kerosene-fueled Supersonic Flow

Abstract

The incident shock wave strongly affects the transversal injection field in cold kerosene-fueled supersonic flow, possibly due to its affecting the interaction between incoming flow and the fuel through various operation conditions. Optimum selection of fuel injection parameters indicates optimum interaction between incoming flow and fuel. Based on three dimensional Couple Level Set & Volume of Fluids (CLSVOF) approach, a detailed Computational Fluid Dynamics model of a cold kerosene-fueled scramjet combustor is developed in this study. Next, the effects of various injection angles on the interaction between incident shock wave and transversal cavity injection are addressed. The injection angles are specified from 45̊ to 135̊ in 45̊increments when other operation parameters, i.e. the injection diameter, velocity and pressure drop are all constant. The CLSVOF-based predictions are focused on penetration height, span-wise expansion area, angle of shock wave and sauter mean diameter (SMD) distribution of the kerosene droplets. Our findings show that the penetration depth, span-wise angle and expansion area of the transverse cavity jet all increased with the injection angle, and that the kerosene droplets are more prone to breakup and atomization at the outlet of the combustor for the injection angle of 45̊. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of CLSVOF modeling for better understanding of kerosene-fueled supersonic mixing and scramjet combustor design improvement.