Preliminary Study on Mixing Mechanism of Three-Dimensional Vortices in the Wake of Lobe-Type Rear Variable Area Bypass Injector

Abstract

In this work, an innovative lobe-type rear variable area bypass injector is proposed, which can take into account both mixing exhaust performance to increase thrust at a high Bypass Ratio (BR), and bypass throttling at low BR. In order to explore the aerodynamic characteristics of the variable injector, the unsteady motion characteristics and the congenerous thermal transport effect of three-dimensional wake vortices within the BR range of 0.18 to 0.68 are numerically analyzed. The results demonstrate that the injector can adjust the sidewall of the collapsible lobe based on the injection of bypass flow, and significantly strengthen streamwise vortices induced by lobe peak (SV-LP), which can effectively drive the migration of the heterogeneous fluid element, so as to compensate for the inefficient mixing ability of Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) vortices. When the BR is raised to 0.36, the increasing SV-LP will gradually replace the low-disturbance K-H vortices in the dominant position of the quasi-ordered flow field by virtue of a strong entrainment effect. Therefore, the injector can maintain a relatively high thrust augmentation in a wide working envelope.