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Numerical Assessment Of The Convective Heat Transfer In Rotating Detonation Combustors Using A Reduced-Order Model, James Braun, Jorge Sousa, Guillermo Paniagua
Numerical Assessment Of The Convective Heat Transfer In Rotating Detonation Combustors Using A Reduced-Order Model, James Braun, Jorge Sousa, Guillermo Paniagua
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Faculty Publications
The pressure gain across a rotating detonation combustor offers an efficiency rise and potential architecture simplification of compact gas turbine engines. However, the combustor walls of the rotating detonation combustor are periodically swept by both detonation and oblique shock waves at several kilohertz, disrupting the boundary layer, resulting in a rather complex convective heat transfer between the fluid and the solid walls. A computationally fast procedure is presented to calculate this extraordinary convective heat flux along the detonation combustor. First, a numerical model combining a two-dimensional method of characteristics approach with a monodimensional reaction model is used to compute the …