This invention discloses a porous rectifying structure for the
afterburner of a variable cycle engine, comprising a rectifying
orifice plate installed in an annular channel between the
turbine outlet and the
flame stabilizer. The
orifice plate is symmetrically arranged along its radial central axis, with the clogging area facing the
turbine inflow and axially aligned with the
heat shield inlet. The
orifice plate height is 2 / 3 of the channel height between the central cone and the
heat shield. The plate has uniformly distributed pores with an equivalent
diameter of 10-20 mm along the radial direction, with a clogging ratio of 5%-25%. This invention forms a multi-stage mixing interface through the radially gradient
porosity pore arrangement, promoting shear mixing of the high-temperature internal
combustion gas and the external bypass gas. Simultaneously, the static
pressure difference across the orifice plate drives the external bypass gas flow into the
heat shield cooling channel, increasing the cooling flow rate, improving the uniformity of the upstream velocity field of the
flame stabilizer, eliminating the recirculation zone inside the heat shield, reducing the
thermal load on the casing wall, and controlling the total pressure loss to within 3%, achieving high-stability
combustion and reliable
thermal protection under a wide
bypass ratio.