Stagnation temperature in a cold hypersonic flow produced by a light free piston compression facility
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Article Title | Stagnation temperature in a cold hypersonic flow produced by a light free piston compression facility |
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ERA Journal ID | 1289 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Widodo, Agung (Author) and Buttsworth, David (Author) |
Journal Title | Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow |
Journal Citation | 54 (4), p. 1486 |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2013 |
Place of Publication | Heidelberg, Germany |
ISSN | 0723-4864 |
1432-1114 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-013-1486-6 |
Web Address (URL) | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00348-013-1486-6 |
Abstract | Stagnation temperatures at the nozzle exit of the University of Southern Queensland hypersonic wind tunnel facility have been identified using an aspirating tube device with a 0.075 mm diameter k-type butt-welded thermocouple junction positioned at its inlet. Because of the finite thermal inertia of the thermocouple, a response time correction is introduced, and uncertainties in the response time correction are assessed and minimized by operating the aspirating device over a range of different initial temperatures. Pressure measurements within the barrel of the wind tunnel facility were used to estimate a theoretical upper bound on the flow stagnation temperature by assuming isentropic compression of the test gas. Results demonstrate that for the current operating conditions, the gas which is first delivered into the hypersonic nozzle has a stagnation temperature almost identical to the isentropic compression value of around 560 K, but a cooling effect is registered for the duration of the test flow which is about 200 ms. Thermodynamic simulations based on an unsteady energy balance model with turbulent heat transfer from the test gas within the barrel demonstrate a cooling effect of a similar magnitude to that indicated by the measured temperature variation, suggesting that strong mixing of the test gas occurs within the barrel during flow discharge through the hypersonic nozzle. |
Keywords | energy balance models; hypersonic wind tunnels; isentropic compression; measured temperatures; thermocouple junctions; thermodynamic simulations; turbulent heat transfer; wind-tunnel facilities |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401204. Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics) |
400106. Hypersonic propulsion and hypersonic aerothermodynamics | |
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Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Engineering and Surveying |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2vqz/stagnation-temperature-in-a-cold-hypersonic-flow-produced-by-a-light-free-piston-compression-facility
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