Study on Ignition Delay Time of Al/Mg Fuel-rich Propellant under Tangential Air Flow

Abstract

Solid propellant, as the power source of propulsion system, has obvious influence on the internal ballistic characteristics of ramjet. The ignition and combustion charac-teristics of solid propellant help to reveal the combustion mechanism and have im-portant guiding significance for estimating the performance of propulsion system. In this paper, the ignition and combustion characteristics of Al/Mg fuel-rich propellant under tangential air flow were studied. Laser ignition experiment was carried out on the Al/Mg fuel-rich propellant at different tangential air flow rates and tangential air flow components. The results show that the air flow rate and air flow composition can affect the flame shape and the brightness of the propellant. At the same time, with the increase of air flow rate, the more obvious the erosion combustion effect on the pro-pellant burning surface. The air flow rate also affects the ignition delay time. When the air flow rate is low, the ignition delay time decreases with the increase of air flow rate. When air flow rate is 0.8L/min, the ignition delay time is reduced to the mini-mum of 350ms, but with the air flow rate continues to increase, the ignition delay time is increasing. As the oxygen content in the air flow increases, the ignition delay time increases. However, when the oxygen content is less than 14% or higher than 21%, the effect of oxygen content on the ignition delay time is weakened.