Application of Carbon Nanotubes and Temperature Sensitive Paint for the Detection of Boundary Layer Transition under Cryogenic Conditions (Invited)
Application of Carbon Nanotubes and Temperature Sensitive Paint for the Detection of Boundary Layer Transition under Cryogenic Conditions (Invited)
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碳纳米管和温敏涂料在低温条件下边界层转变检测中的应用(特邀)
DOI:
10.2514/6.2017-0336
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2017
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J. Quest
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作者:
C. Klein;U. Henne;Daisuke Yorita;U. Beifuss;V. Ondruš;A. Hensch;R. Longo;M. Hauser;P. Guntermann;J. Quest
For aerodynamic profile tests on aircraft models, transition detection is of great interest. Under
ambient flow conditions the infrared technique (IR) is a well-established image-based method for this
purpose. In high Reynolds number tests which are conducted at cryogenic temperatures the IR
technique is of only limited suitability. In contrast, the image-based Temperature-Sensitive Paint (TSP)
technique is well-suited for these conditions. Boundary layer transition detection by means of TSP
generally requires an artificial temperature difference between model surface and flow. For wind
tunnels operated under cryogenic conditions this temperature difference can be generated by changing
the liquid nitrogen injection rate of the working fluid causing a rapid change of the flow temperature.
The drawback of this procedure is that du ring the change of the flow temperature neither the Reynolds
nor the Mach number can be kept constant. To overcome this problem, we have recently published an
alternative approach where Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) are used to electrically heat the model surface
and thus generate a well-defined temperature difference to visualize laminar-turbulent transition. The
combination of CNT and TSP, which we call cntTSP, delivered excellent results in different wind tunnel
tests from ambient down to 150 K. At lower temperatures the previously used CNT layer failed to work,
since the nanotubes were embedded into an acrylic binder material which is known to be unsuitable for
cryogenic temperatures. In this paper we describe a new sensor development based on the idea that all
paint components are mixed (CNT) or dissolved (TSP) in a polyurethane binder material, which has
demonstrated its suitability for cryogenic testing in previous tests. After pre-testlng CNT and TSP in the
laboratory, a cryogenic wind tunnel experiment was conducted in the pilot facility of the European
Transonic Windtunnel (PETW) with the aim to visualize the laminar-turbulent transition on a twodimensional
model for Reynolds number Re
c S 10xl06• A comparison between the results of the
standard temperature-step method of the working fluid and of the new approach based on the model
surface heating by means of CNT will be presented and discussed.
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64.8
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IIJIMA, S
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IIJIMA, S