Study on Influence of Diameter on Detonation Acoustic Characteristics of Pulse Detonation Engine

Abstract

The experiment system of pulse detonation engine is set up to investigate on influence of diameter on detonation acoustic characteristic. The research of detonation acoustic characteristic of pulse detonation engine for four different diameters in different angles is carried out. Results from the test show that as the PDE diameter increasing, there are increases in amplitudes of impact noise in all angles, and the growth rate of amplitude of impact noise in the 90° direction is generally greater than that in the 0° direction. The smaller PDE diameter is, the distance of most obvious directivity at 0° turning to most obvious directivity at 30° is shorter. When the distance is shorter, such as 200 mm, the duration of detonation acoustic is increasing with the increase of PDE diameter, however, when the distance is longer, such as 3000 mm, it is just the opposite. The maximum duration of detonation acoustic is appeared in 3000 mm under 30 mm PDE diameter which reaches to 1.44 ms.

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“…In the research of the formation mechanism and propagation characteristics of detonation sound wave, Xu et al [18,19] studied the formation and propagation process of PDE sound by combining the experimental and numerical methods. The effects of different tubes and loading conditions on PDE sound were also studied.…”