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Design And Analysis Of A Mach 3 Dual Mode Scramjet Combustor, Christopher Ryan Corbin
Design And Analysis Of A Mach 3 Dual Mode Scramjet Combustor, Christopher Ryan Corbin
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Low speed operation of a dual mode scramjet engine is important to the development of a two stage to orbit reusable launch vehicle. This study investigates the Mach 3 operation of a dual mode scramjet engine. SRGULL, a one-dimensional cycle code for scramjet engines, and VULCAN, a computational fluid dynamics code capable of solving reacting flows, are used in this study. Staged injection is investigated to allow more heat release at a low flight Mach number condition so that more thrust can be achieved and inlet unstart is avoided. The nominal case has one injector located 1.067 meters downstream of …