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Stability of detonation combustion with respect to the variation in the hydrogen concentration at the supersonic nozzle inlet

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Detonation combustion of hydrogen-air mixtures entering an axisymmetric convergent-divergent nozzle at a supersonic velocity is considered. The nozzle geometry does not ensure gas self-ignition; for this reason, forced ignition is used, which, under certain conditions, leads to the formation of stationary detonation combustion in the case of both uniform and nonuniform hydrogen distribution at the channel entry. The nonlinear problem of the stability of these combustion regimes against periodic disturbances of the hydrogen concentration in the oncoming flow is numerically solved. The study is performed on the basis of the two-dimensional gasdynamic Euler equations for a multicomponent reacting gas. A detailed model of chemical reactions is used.

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Tunik, 2011, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2011, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 128–135.

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Tunik, Y.V. Stability of detonation combustion with respect to the variation in the hydrogen concentration at the supersonic nozzle inlet. Fluid Dyn 46, 115–121 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462811010133

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