Cooper, M. and Shepherd, J. E. (2008) Single-Cycle Impulse from Detonation Tubes with Nozzles. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 24 (1). pp. 81-87. ISSN 0748-4658. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:COOjpp08
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Experiments measuring the single-cycle impulse from detonation tubes with nozzles were conducted by hanging the tubes in a ballistic pendulum arrangement within a large tank. The detonation-tube nozzle and surrounding tank were initially filled with air between 1.4 and 100 kPa in pressure simulating high-altitude conditions. A stoichiometric ethylene–oxygen mixture at an initial pressure of 80 kPa filled the constant-diameter portion of the tube. Four diverging nozzles and six converging–diverging nozzles were tested. Two regimes of nozzle operation were identified, depending on the environmental pressure. Near sea-level conditions, unsteady gas-dynamic effects associated with the mass of air contained in the nozzle increase the impulse as much as 72% for the largest nozzle tested over the baseline case of a plain tube. Near vacuum conditions, the nozzles quasi-steadily expand the flow, increasing the impulse as much as 43% for the largest nozzle tested over the baseline case of a plain tube. Competition between the unsteady and quasi-steady-flow processes in the nozzle determine the measured impulse as the environmental pressure varies.
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Additional Information: | Copyright © 2007 by California Institute of Technology. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission. Received 1 February 2007; revision received 10 August 2007; accepted for publication 22 August 2007. This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, Multidisciplinary Study of Pulse Detonation Engine (N00014-02-1-0589), and General Electric contract GE-PO A02 81655 under DABT-63-0-0001. | ||||||||
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