超高速气体分子与壁面作用的特殊能量转换机制
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摘要: 在地球超低轨道环境中, 来流气体以超高速准直分子束直接与飞行器表面碰撞, 气−固界面作用关系直接影响超低轨飞行器的气动性能和吸气效率. 本文采用分子动力学方法模拟了准直气体分子束在无定形固体壁面上的微观散射过程, 获得了不同入射速度和角度工况下气−固界面作用的动量/能量适应系数和散射角分布的变化规律. 结果表明, 在超高速入射条件下, 界面适应系数会随入射角度剧烈变化, 并频繁超出0, 1的常规范围, 导致传统唯象学气−固界面作用边界模型失效. 而新型物理学气−固界面作用模型在超高速条件下仍能够准确复现气体分子的反射速度分布函数, 以及动量/能量适应系数和散射角度分布随来流速度和角度的变化规律, 表现出优异的高精度和自适应性. 分析机理发现, 气体分子自身不同速度分量之间的能量转换是强烈影响气−固界面散射特性的关键机制, 本文提出一个新的能量转换系数, 可以定量描述不同速度分量之间的能量转换效率随入射角度和表面粗糙度的变化规律. 这些发现为建立高保真稀薄气体动力学边界条件提供了关键的物理见解, 对超低轨道先进航天飞行器的气动设计和性能优化具有重要意义.Abstract: In the very low Earth orbit environment, the incoming gas flow directly collides with the surfaces of spacecraft in the form of collimated hyperthermal molecular beams. The gas surface interaction property plays a decisive role in determining the aerodynamic performance of very low earth orbit vehicles as well as the gas capture efficiency of the intake facility. This study employs molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the microscopic scattering processes of collimated gas molecular beams with amorphous solid surface. The momentum and energy accommodation coefficients together with the scattering angular distributions of gas molecules are obtained under various conditions of incident speed and angle. The results indicate that the gas-surface interaction accommodation coefficients vary significantly with the gas incident angle and frequently exceed the conventional range of 0, 1, which leads the failure of the traditional phenomenological gas surface interaction models in the hyperthermal flow applications. In contrast, the new physical based gas surface interaction model can accurately reproduce the reflected velocity distribution function of gas molecules, as well as the variation patterns of the momentum/energy accommodation coefficients and scattering angular distributions with respect to the gas incident speed and angle, which demonstrates superior accuracy and adaptability in the hyperthermal flow applications. Mechanism analysis reveals that the energy conversion between the different velocity components of gas molecules plays a key role in influencing the scattering characteristics at the gas-solid interface. To quantify this effect, this study proposes a new energy conversion coefficient to effectively characterize the efficiency of energy conversion between the different velocity components under varying gas incident angle and surface roughness conditions. These findings provide critical physical insights for developing high-fidelity boundary conditions in rarefied gas dynamics, which are of great significance for the aerodynamic design and performance optimization of advanced aerospace vehicles operating in the very low Earth orbit.
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