Effect of spatial discretization of energy on detonation wave propagation

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.81zbMATH Open1383.76323arXiv1608.07665OpenAlexW3101462830MaRDI QIDQ5364630FDOQ5364630

Authors: Xiaocheng Mi, Evgeny V. Timofeev, Andrew J. Higgins 

Publication date: 28 September 2017

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Detonation propagation in the limit of highly spatially discretized energy sources is investigated. The model of this problem begins with a medium consisting of a calorically perfect gas with a prescribed energy release per unit mass. The energy release is collected into sheet-like sources that are now embedded in an inert gas that fills the spaces between them. The release of energy in the first sheet results in a planar blast wave that propagates to the next source, which is triggered after a prescribed delay, generating a new blast, and so forth. The resulting wave dynamics as the front passes through hundreds of such sources is computationally simulated by numerically solving the governing one-dimensional Euler equations in the lab-fixed reference frame. The average wave speed for each simulation is measured once the wave propagation has reached a quasi-periodic solution. Velocities in excess of the CJ speed are found as the sources are made increasingly discrete, with the deviation above CJ being as great as $15\mathrm{\%}$. The total energy release, delay time, and whether the sources remain lab-fixed or are convected with the flow do not have a significant influence on the deviation of the average wave speed away from CJ. Such continuous waves can also be shown to have a time-averaged structure consistent with the classical ZND structure of a detonation. In the limit of highly discrete sources, temporal averaging of the wave structure shows that the effective sonic surface does not correspond to an equilibrium state. The average state of the flow leaving the wave in this case does eventually reach the equilibrium Hugoniot, but only after the effective sonic surface has been crossed. Thus, the super-CJ waves observed in the limit of highly discretized sources can be understood as weak detonations due to the non-equilibrium state at the effective sonic surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07665

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zbMATH Keywords

shock wavescompressible flowsdetonation waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76Nxx)

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