AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
Online ISSN : 1884-0477
ISSN-L : 1884-0477
Study on Void Fraction Measurement of Cryogenic Two-Phase Flow by Image Analysis
Wataru OKADATetsuya SATOHiroaki KOBAYASHINorihide MAENOYuki SAKAMOTO
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2015 Volume 14 Pages 163-170

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The hypersonic air-breathing engine, which is currently under development by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), uses liquid hydrogen as the fuel. In order to accurately control the fuel flow rate during the start-up, it is essential to measure the heat transfer and pressure drop of the two phase flow. These two characteristics depend on void fraction, flow velocity and flow regime; thus, measurement methods for these values are required to be established. In this study, the void fraction measurement method by the high-speed image analyses has been developed. Two images taken from top and side directions by high-speed cameras of 1000 fps are used for “two-direction semi-automatic analysis”. We also develop “One-direction full automatic analysis” which uses only the side view as a full-automatic and high sampling rate method with little accuracy deterioration. The preliminary verification test using vertical pipe and acrylic ball shows favorable results within 2.2€% error against the theoretical value. A cryogenic experiment using two-phase nitrogen flow was also conducted. Sampling rate of “One-direction full automatic analysis” can be up to 1000 Hz. The difference between the results of two methods was as minor as 5€% when the void fraction was below 30€%.
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