Initiation of Detonation Combustion and Determination of Specific Impulse during Combustion of a Kerosene–Air Mixture in a Radial Vortex Combustor
摘要
Detonation combustion regimes of a two-phase mixture of TS-1 aviation kerosene and air have been implemented and studied in a radial vortex combustor 500 mm in diameter with exhaustion toward the center and with a nozzle and axial partitions aligning the flow of combustion products in the axial direction. Continuous spin and pulse detonation regimes are obtained under strong initiation (by a detonation wave) and weak initiation (via deflagration-to-detonation transition). Under weak initiation conditions, continuous spin detonation with one transverse detonation wave is always observed, with the specific impulse reaching the maximum value in this experimental setup,