Propulsion
ALI RASTGAR; Hojat Ghasemi
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present experimental data for merging two outlet fluid skirts in a dual pressure-swirl coaxial injector. In this study, a dual pressure-swirl external mixing injector was designed, fabricated. Operational characteristics including discharge coefficient and breakup length ...
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The purpose of this paper is to present experimental data for merging two outlet fluid skirts in a dual pressure-swirl coaxial injector. In this study, a dual pressure-swirl external mixing injector was designed, fabricated. Operational characteristics including discharge coefficient and breakup length with injection pressures difference for internal and external injectors were expressed. Utilizing fast shooting, based on backlighting method, the interaction between the two outlet skirts were investigated and the merge performance map was extracted. The merge performance map results indicated, when the pressure difference of the external injector increases from 0.3 bar to 0.95 bar, the pressure difference of the internal injector for the merge to occur increases. Because the effect of the internal injector injection pressure for merge in this area is greater than the external injector injection pressure, the external injector skirt is pulled toward the internal injector skirt. For injection pressures difference of more than 0.95 bar in the external injector, because the effect of the external injector injection pressure for merge is greater than the internal injector injection pressure, the internal injector injection pressure difference is reduced for the merge to occur and the internal injector skirt is pulled toward the external injector skirt.