A Constant Volume Combustion Cycle Engine concept consisting of a Pulse Detonation Combustor (PDC) followed by a conventional axial turbine was simulated numerically to determine the attenuation and reflection of a notional PDC pulse by the turbine. The multi-stage, time-accurate, turbomachinery solver TURBO was used to perform the calculation. The solution domain consisted of one notional detonation tube coupled to 5 vane passages and 8 rotor passages representing 1/8th of the annulus. The detonation tube was implemented as an initial value problem with the thermodynamic state of the tube contents, when the detonation wave is about to exit, provided by a 1D code. Pressure time history data from the numerical simulation was compared to experimental data from a similar configuration to verify that the simulation is giving reasonable results. Analysis of the pressure data showed a spectrally averaged attenuation of about 15 dB across the turbine stage. An evaluation of turbine performance is also presented.


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    Title :

    The Attenuation of a Detonation Wave by an Aircraft Engine Axial Turbine Stage


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    18th ISABE Conference (ISABE 2007) ; 2007 ; Beijing, China


    Publication date :

    2007-09-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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