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In relation to current efforts devoted to the development of a supersonic air-breathing propulsion system, numerous studies have been carried out to assess the main difficulties involved in employing supersonic combustion. Several experiments have been realized in axisymmetric and two-dimensional configurations, and various computations have been performed to investigate in detail the difficulties associated with combustion in high-speed flows. These studies have shown that finite-rate chemistry effects and their coupling with turbulence are the dominant features of such reacting flows. In this article, we present the development and first validation steps of a code solving the full compressible reactive Navier-Stokes equations using detailed modeling of reaction, transport and thermodynamical properties. Emphasis is put here mainly on the chemical effects, and no turbulence modeling is introduced at this point, though the effect of turbulence could certainly be important. This code will be used to investigate chemistry-dominated auto-ignition in supersonic flows, which constitutes an important step towards the understanding of the basic phenomena pertaining to supersonic combustion.
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Riedel, U., Thévenin, D. (1997). Development of a Three-Dimensional Code to Investigate Supersonic-Combustion Problems. In: Champion, M., Deshaies, B. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Combustion in Supersonic Flows. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5432-1_3
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