Performance Enhancement of

Scramjet Engine
Mukul Gupta - 16BME0449
Shourya Singh - 16BME0524
Ankur Sharma - 16BME0801
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering
First Review Report

School of Mechanical Engineering

Prof.
Senthilkumar P
Abstract

• The objective of our study is to minimize energy losses due to shock

waves(high speed air intake enhancement) by pressure feedback techniques.
• The parameters involved during simulation would be Total Pressure, Flow
distortion, Mach number and static pressure.

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Introduction

1. Scramjet engines
Supersonic Combustion Ramjet engines
Used for high speed applications from mach number 6 to 12, 14 or higher.
Simple geometry
2. Applications
Military
Rocket Launch
3. Advantages
Does not have to carry oxygen
No rotating parts makes it easier to manufacture than a turbojet
Higher speed could mean cheaper access to outer space in the future
4. Disadvantages
Difficult and expensive testing facilities
High initial propulsion requirements

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Introduction

Turbojet engine

Scramjet Engine Ramjet Engine

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Literature Review
Title of the paper
Experimental Investigation of
Inlet-Combustor Isolators for a
Dual-Mode Scramjet at a Mach
Number of 4
Numerical Simulations of the Flow Aeronautical Journal
through the Inlet and Isolator of a Year - 2017
Mach 4 Dual Mode Scramjet
Journal & Year Authors Description/Remarks
NASA Technical Paper Saied Emami Lockheed • Experimental studies were conducted in the coldflow
3502 Engineering & Sciences Mach 4 Blowdown Facility (M4BDF) at the Langley
Year - 1995 Company • Hampton, Research Center to parametrically investigate inlet-isolator
Virginia performance in an airframe-integrated ramjet/scramjet
Carl A. Trexler Langley engine. The inlet-isolator test data presented herein result
Research Center • from both variations in geometry (isolator length and
Hampton, Virginia rearward-facing step height) and flow-field properties
Aaron H. Auslender (boundary-layer thickness and oblique-glancing sidewall
Lockheed Engineering & shock interaction). These data from the coupling of the
Sciences Company • inlet and isolator provide a portion of the parametric
Hampton, Virginia database required in a cycle deck to predict inlet-isolator
John P. Weidner Langley performance over the ramjet envelope for the design of a
Research Center • hypersonic vehicle.
Hampton, Virginia
Subash Janarthanam and Results from numerical simulations of the three dimensional
V. Babu flow in the intake-isolator of a dual mode scramjet are
Department of Mechanical presented. The effect of cowl length and cowl convergence
Engineering, IIT Madras, angle on the inlet mass capture ratio, flow distortion, shock
Chennai, INDIA strength and pressure rise are studied in detail. Three cowl
lengths and four or five cowl convergence angles for each
cowl length are considered. The predicted values of the
dimensionless wall static pressure and inlet mass capture
ratio are compared with experimental data reported in the
literature. The numerical predictions are shown to agree well
with the experimental data
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Knowledge Gained

• Different types of jet engines and their working

• Subsonic, supersonic, hypersonic speeds
• Fluid properties – mach number, boundary layer, flow distortion
• In depth working of scramjet engine
• Affect of geometrical variations on performance of scramjet

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Gaps in Literature

• Air gaps and flow distortion in shock waves arise

• Decrease the efficiency
• Current research focuses on varying the geometrical parameters – cowl length,
cowl angle, diffuser length, isolator geometry
• Our study focuses on adding an extra ramp and impinging electromagnetic field at
certain points.

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Gaps in Literature

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Work done so far

Initial design of cross section of scramjet engine is in progress.

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Work to be done

• Complete solidworks models for ANSYS flow simulation.

• Putting an extra ramp at inlet to analyse its effects.
• Various iterations from the results obtained from ansys.
• Application of magnetic field in simulation study
• Various iterations in ANSYS.
• Hence reducing the air gaps thus minimizing the energy losses and
increased efficiency of the scramjet engine.

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