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    The document describes the original and new designs of a cavity flame holder for a combustor. The original design uses a reference step height of 0.0165 m, inlet velocity of 727 m/s, and Reynolds number of 327838. The new design maintains a Mach number of 2 but reduces the step height to 0.00165 m to achieve a Reynolds number of 12644.15 by increasing the static temperature to 800 K. This reduces velocities and dimensions by a ratio of 0.1 while maintaining the same ratios between old and new specifications.

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    The document describes the original and new designs of a cavity flame holder for a combustor. The original design uses a reference step height of 0.0165 m, inlet velocity of 727 m/s, and Reynolds number of 327838. The new design maintains a Mach number of 2 but reduces the step height to 0.00165 m to achieve a Reynolds number of 12644.15 by increasing the static temperature to 800 K. This reduces velocities and dimensions by a ratio of 0.1 while maintaining the same ratios between old and new specifications.

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    The document describes the original and new designs of a cavity flame holder for a combustor. The original design uses a reference step height of 0.0165 m, inlet velocity of 727 m/s, and Reynolds number of 327838. The new design maintains a Mach number of 2 but reduces the step height to 0.00165 m to achieve a Reynolds number of 12644.15 by increasing the static temperature to 800 K. This reduces velocities and dimensions by a ratio of 0.1 while maintaining the same ratios between old and new specifications.

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    The document describes the original and new designs of a cavity flame holder for a combustor. The original design uses a reference step height of 0.0165 m, inlet velocity of 727 m/s, and Reynolds number of 327838. The new design maintains a Mach number of 2 but reduces the step height to 0.00165 m to achieve a Reynolds number of 12644.15 by increasing the static temperature to 800 K. This reduces velocities and dimensions by a ratio of 0.1 while maintaining the same ratios between old and new specifications.

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    Cavity Flame Holder

    The geometry of our simulation case is designed based on the data from Numerical
    Investigation of a Supersonic Cavity Flameholder, David M. Peterson et al.
    Reference length = step height = !

    Reference velocity = inlet speed of sound (! = 1) = ! = !"


    The Original Design of the Combustor
    The freestream stagnation temperature ! is 589 K. Thus the inlet static temperature ! (K) can
    be calculated using equation obtained from [2]
    ! 1 ! 1.4 1 !
    =1+ ! = 589/ 1 + 2 = 326.9 K
    ! 2 2
    The approximate inlet speed of sound in dry (0% humidity) air can be calculated from
    !" = 331.3 + 0.606 ! /
    where ! is the static temperature in degrees Celsius which is 54 C. Thus
    !" = 331.3 + 0.606 54 / = 364 /
    The inlet velocity is taken as 727 m/s, then the inlet Mach number M may be calculated from
    727
    = = =2
    !" 364
    The reference kinematic viscosity ! is 18.32 10!! ! / based on the inlet static temperature.
    The cavity has a reference step height (! ) of 0.0165 m, thus the reference Reynolds number can
    be obtained from
    ! ! 364 0.0165
    ! = = = 327838
    ! 18.32 10!!

    If the step height = ! and the inlet kinematic viscosity = ! , then the inlet Reynolds
    number based on step height can be calculated as
    727 0.0165
    = = = 654776
    18.32 10!!
    It is important to note that the inlet Reynolds number is exactly 2 times as much as reference
    Reynolds number.
    The injector has a diameter of 0.001913 m and the fuel flow rate is given in standard liters per
    minute, which is 56 SLPM. Since 1 SLPM = 6.9 10!! ! /, the velocity of the fuel through the

    injector !" is

    56 6.9 10!!
    !" = = 134.4 /
    0.001913! /4

    The ratio of inlet velocity to the injector velocity !" can be obtained as 5.4. Note that this
    ratio (5.4) will be used for the rest of our calculation.
    The New Design of the Combustor
    Now, if we try to use ! = 12644.15 (Re = 25288.3), but keep M = 2 and ! = 0.0165 m, it will
    not work no matter how we vary the velocity or temperature. Therefore, the only way to maintain
    M = 2 and use ! = 12644.15 is to reduce the reference step height ! or increase the static
    temperature. According to the previous calculation, the sound speed in air increases as an
    increase in static temperature. If we choose the static temperature as 800 K and maintain M as 2,
    both the inlet speed of sound and the inlet velocity will be raised to 650.5 m/s and1301 m/s
    respectively. The reference kinematic viscosity becomes 8.49 10!! ! /, from there, the new
    reference step height can be computed as
    ! ! 12644.15 8.49 10!!
    ! = = = 0.00165
    ! 650.5

    or
    25288.3 8.49 10!!
    = = = 0.00165
    1301
    since we take = 2 ! , = ! , and = 2 ! , as a result, = ! . Note that the ratio of
    new step height to old step height is exactly 0.1, which is what we prefer.
    The new injector diameter is also reduced with the same ratio as that of the new to old step
    height. This can be calculated as

    = = 1.913 10!!

    The ratio of channel inlet velocity to injector velocity is 5.4. Thus the new injector velocity is
    241 m/s. In addition, we want to keep the ratio of old to new channel inlet flow rate and the ratio
    of old to new injector fuel flow rate the same. The old channel height and depth are 0.0508 m
    and 0.066 m. Applying the same calculation as above to the channel height and the depth
    respectively, the new channel height and depth are then become 0.00508 m and 0.0066 m. Thus
    the old and new fuel flow rates are

    !"# = !" !"# = 6.915 10!! ! /

    !"# = !" !"# = 6.915 10!! ! /
    In order to validate our calculation, we compare the ratio of old to new injector flow rate with
    that of old to new channel inlet flow rate.
    6.915 10!! ! /
    = = = 100
    6.915 10!! ! /
    4.362! /
    = = = 100
    0.04362! /
    The ratio of old to new injector flow rate equals that of old to new channel flow rate.

    References
    1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
    2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagnation_temperature
    3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Litres_Per_Minute
    4. http://www.dgflo.com/unitsofflow.pdf

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