Experimental Investigation of Transient Flow Measurement in the Ram-Accelerator High Pressure Pneumatic System

Abstract

A high-pressure-pneumatic mass flow control test-bed using inert medium was built in order to study the transient flow characteristic of high pressure gas feed system in ram accelerator. The structure of a new type measurement system of transient flow characteristic experiments applied to the test-bed was introduced as also. Measurement tests that high pressure gas-flow ejecting into a tank with exhaust-back-pressure through a high pressure fueling valve were conducted to ascertain the transient discharge coefficient. The results suggest that: The transient discharge coefficient increases with the inlet pressure difference of high pressure fueling valve according to polynomial law. Correlations between inlet pressure difference and transient discharge coefficient was obtained based on the experimental data. The correlation coefficient between the least square fitting curve of the correlations and experimental results reaches 0.994.The system could be used to study the change regularity of pressure and time in the fueling process of high pressure gas.