TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of combustion stabilization for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion
AU - Liu, Qili
AU - Baccarella, Damiano
AU - Lee, Tonghun
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was generated in the process of working on U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant FA9550-14-1-0343 grant monitored by Dr. Chiping Li as part of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineerings (PECASE) awarded to Dr. Tonghun Lee. The authors gratefully acknowledge this source of support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - A review of fundamental research in combustion stabilization for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion is presented. Combustion in high-speed airbreathing propulsion systems demands stable flame distribution and chemical reaction to provide reliable thrust over a wide flight envelope. Various methods have been developed to stabilize combustion depending on the hypersonic regime. For low hypersonic conditions, combustion occurs mainly in the diffusive mode in which the gas/liquid fuels are injected into supersonic freestreams for simultaneous fuel-air mixing and chemical reaction. Flame stability is generally enhanced by improved mixing, physical flameholding, and external energy addition. In higher hypersonic conditions, partially/fully premixed combustion relying on shock induced stabilization becomes more dominant. In such cases, flame stabilization can be achieved through alternative means such as radical generation and standing oblique detonation waves. The review outlines both experimental and numerical research progress made towards combustion stabilization over the entire hypersonic regime, and intended to lay the groundwork for further studies which can provide optimized design guidelines for the next generation of high-speed airbreathing propulsion systems.
AB - A review of fundamental research in combustion stabilization for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion is presented. Combustion in high-speed airbreathing propulsion systems demands stable flame distribution and chemical reaction to provide reliable thrust over a wide flight envelope. Various methods have been developed to stabilize combustion depending on the hypersonic regime. For low hypersonic conditions, combustion occurs mainly in the diffusive mode in which the gas/liquid fuels are injected into supersonic freestreams for simultaneous fuel-air mixing and chemical reaction. Flame stability is generally enhanced by improved mixing, physical flameholding, and external energy addition. In higher hypersonic conditions, partially/fully premixed combustion relying on shock induced stabilization becomes more dominant. In such cases, flame stabilization can be achieved through alternative means such as radical generation and standing oblique detonation waves. The review outlines both experimental and numerical research progress made towards combustion stabilization over the entire hypersonic regime, and intended to lay the groundwork for further studies which can provide optimized design guidelines for the next generation of high-speed airbreathing propulsion systems.
KW - Combustion stabilization
KW - Diffusive combustion
KW - Hypersonic propulsion
KW - Scramjet engine
KW - Shock-induced combustion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paerosci.2020.100636
DO - 10.1016/j.paerosci.2020.100636
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098111493
SN - 0376-0421
VL - 119
JO - Progress in Aerospace Sciences
JF - Progress in Aerospace Sciences
M1 - 100636
ER -