抄録
As a research to develop a SCRAM-jet engine is actively conducted, a necessity to produce a high-enthalpy flow in a laboratory is increasing. In order to develop the SCRAM-jet engine, stabilized combustion in a supersonic flow-field should be attained, in which a duration time of flow is extremely short. Therefore, a mixing process of breathed air and fuel, which is injected into supersonic flow-fields is one of the most important problem. Since, the flow inside SCRAM-jet engine has high-enthalpy, an experimental facility is required to produce such high-enthalpy flow-field. In this study, a detonation-driven shock tunnel was built and was used to produce high-enthalpy flow. At first, a performance of this facility was investigated in order to obtain a Tayloring condition. Furthermore, SCRAM-jet combustor model equipped backward-facing step was installed at test section and flow-fields were visualized using color-schlieren technique. The fuel was injected perpendicular to the flow of Mach number three behind step. The height of backward-facing step and injection pressure were changed to investigate effects of the step on a mixing characteristic between air and fuel. The schlieren photograph and pressure histories show that the fuel was ignited behind step and the height of step is important factor to ignite a fuel in a supersonic flow-field.
