A regulating method for pressure drop of supercritical cracked-kerosene in cooling tube

Abstract

Flow distribution of kerosene in actively cooling panel is an important factor that constraints the cooling efficiency of the thermal protection system of scramjet. However, the flow mal-distribution is a common phenomenon in the realistic thermal protection system. In order to investigate this problem, a way to regulate the pressure drop via restriction orifice is proposed. The flow, heat transfer and thermal cracking process in cooling tube are calculated using a three-dimensional fluid-solid conjugated simulation method for supercritical cracked-kerosene. The results indicate that with an appropriate restriction orifice, the pressure drop under a lower heat flux can match with that under correspondingly higher heat flux in a same tube, which verifies the feasibility of pressure drop regulating using the restriction orifice. Therefore, this research could provides a design method of flow distribution in actively cooling panel of scramjet.

Keywords

• Restriction orifice
• Pressure drop regulating
• Numerical simulation
• Flow distribution
• Actively cooling panel