The ability of the Navier–Stokes equations to capture the effects of strong chemical and thermal nonequilibrium on gas composition in a manner similar to the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is tested with the introduction of a nonequilibrium chemistry model. Although this chemistry model has the ability to reasonably reproduce measured Arrhenius rates in conditions of thermal equilibrium, it results in reaction rates that vary significantly for the most commonly used Arrhenius rates in conditions of thermal nonequilibrium. The nonequilibrium chemistry model is implemented in the three-temperature Navier–Stokes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver, Data-Parallel Line Relaxation (DPLR), and tested on high-altitude, hypersonic flow conditions. The results of the simulations show that the model predicts a greater amount of NO compared with previous Navier–Stokes using nonequilibrium quasi-classical trajectory derived rates and remains consistent with DSMC computations over altitudes ranging from 53.5 to 87.5 km. The most commonly used chemistry model for Navier–Stokes solvers was found unable to match this performance, indicating the importance of including nonequilibrium effects when modeling chemically reacting hypersonic flowfields.


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    Title :

    Continuum Simulations of Hypersonic Flows in Chemical and Thermal Nonequilibrium


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    Publication date :

    2018-09-24


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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