Abstract
Abstract In this study, the detonation behaviors of stoichiometric methane-oxygen mixture were examined in a round tube filled with orifice plates. The blockage ratio was 0.56 and the plate spacings were 1, 1.5 and 2 times the tube diameter. Detonation velocity measurement and soot foils were adopted to study the propagation characteristics. Experimental results show that the abrupt velocity jump was only observed for the obstacle configuration with S = 2 D , where S and D are the plate spacing and the tube diameter. For a fixed plate spacing, the detonation velocity as well as the detonation limits are independent of the orifice geometry, since the effective diameters ( d e f f ) of the orifices are almost the same. The ratios of d e f f to the detonation cell size ( λ ) were found to be 0.4–0.5. For sensitive mixtures, the soot foils indicate that the detonation re-initiation occurs via hot spots formed on the wall. As the initial pressure decreases, the detonation can travel without hot spots generation. At the limits, no indication of detonation can be observed for obstacle configurations with smaller spacings in spite of the higher velocity (compared with the isobaric sound speed of the products). The propagation mechanism near the limits is left, however, for further investigation.
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