Numerical study on a new design of solid-fuel ramjet combustor with swirl flow
Abstract
A new design of solid-fuel ramjet is proposed and examined numerically in this paper. Multi-physics coupling code is developed using FORTRAN and parallel computing to solve the problems of multi-physics coupling of fluid mechanics, solid pyrolysis, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics. Simulations are carried out for the proposed design then the results are compared with the classic design of the solid-fuel ramjet. It is found that the proposed design has improved the regression rate significantly; besides, the amount of released solid fuel is increased for the same size. A new flame has been observed inside the combustion chamber of the proposed design then the two flamed were emerged in the afterburning chamber.
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