Experimental investigations of steady-state oblique detonation waves generated around hypersonic projectiles

Jiro Kasahara, Takakage Arai, Akiko Matsuo, Nobutaka Akai, Kouki Takazawa

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Abstract

Five-mm-diameter projectiles, whose speed was beyond the Chapman-Jouguet (C-J) detonation speed, were fired into mixtures containing stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen gases plus argon diluents. The flowfield around the projectile was visualized using a CCD camera. We measured the minimum normal velocity components of detonation waves around the projectiles and the effective curvature radius of a bow detonation wave near the projectile tip. From these experimental results we concluded that the steady-state C-J detonation wave is stabilized around a projectile when the effective curvature radius of the bow detonation wave is larger than 8.6 times of the detonation cell size.

Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2001 Dec 1
Event10th AIAA/NAL-NASDA-ISAS International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference 2001 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 2001 Apr 242001 Apr 27

Other

Other10th AIAA/NAL-NASDA-ISAS International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference 2001
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period01/4/2401/4/27

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Space and Planetary Science
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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