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Pulsed combustion of fuel–air mixture in a cavity above water surface: modeling and experiments

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A mathematical model for simulating combustion and detonation of a fuel–air mixture in the gas cavity above the free water surface is developed. The model is based on solving the conservation equations of mass, momentum, and energy for a two-phase reacting gas–water medium with the phases treated as interacting interpenetrating continua having their own values of velocity, temperature, and turbulence characteristics. The model is validated by laboratory experiments. The test rig included a transparent cylindrical tube with one closed-end, a pool with an optically transparent window, as well as power, ignition, control, and measurement systems. The tube was vertically immersed with its open end in water and filled with a gaseous explosive mixture. In the experiments, a stoichiometric propane–air mixture was ignited and burned in the semi-closed 60 mL cylindrical volume above the free surface of water. The model is shown to predict satisfactorily the lift force acting on the tube, the time history of pressure in the volume, and the dynamics of the flame and gas–water interface motion during combustion in the volume. The model is intended to be applied for the design of boats with propulsion solely by combustion/detonation of fuel–air mixture in cavities constructed into a bottom surface of the boat. This propulsion system replaces conventional propellers, thereby reducing hydrodynamic resistance.

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This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia under state contract No. 13.1902.21.0014 (agreement No. 075-15-2020-806) within the framework of the Federal Target Program “Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Scientific and Technological Complex of Russia for 2014–2020.”

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  1. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4, Kosigin Str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991

    S. M. Frolov, K. A. Avdeev, V. S. Aksenov, V. S. Ivanov, A. E. Zangiev, I. A. Sadykov, R. R. Tukhvatullina, F. S. Frolov & I. O. Shamshin

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    S. M. Frolov & V. S. Aksenov

  3. Federal State Institution “Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, 36-1, Nakhimovskii Prosp., Moscow, Russian Federation, 117218

    S. M. Frolov, V. S. Ivanov, F. S. Frolov & I. O. Shamshin

  4. JSC “TsMKB” Almaz”, 50, Varshavskaya Str., St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 196128

    S. V. Platonov

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The original article has been revised due to Ref. 26 was mentioned as accepted and should have been removed and only the DOI should be added.

This paper is based on work that was presented at the 12th International Colloquium on Pulsed and Continuous Detonations (ICPCD), 19–22 October 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Frolov, S.M., Platonov, S.V., Avdeev, K.A. et al. Pulsed combustion of fuel–air mixture in a cavity above water surface: modeling and experiments. Shock Waves 32, 1–10 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-021-01045-3

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