Turbulence-chemistry interaction and heat transfer modeling of H 2/O2 gaseous injector flows

Emre Sozer*, Ez A. Hassan, Seokjun Yun, Siddharth Thakur, Jeffrey Wright, Matthias Ihme, Wei Shyy

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Abstract

Reliable prediction of rocket injector flows introduces significant challenges associated with the complex physics involving recirculation, turbulence, scalar mixing, chemical reactions and wall heat transfer. This work is aimed at assessing the importance of turbulence-chemistry interaction and non-equilibrium effects in experimentally characterized single and multi-element injector flows. By examining the different chemistry models (laminar finite rate, assumed PDF with either flamelet or equilibrium assumption), it was found that for both cases investigated, chemical non-equilibrium is insignificant while substantial turbulence-chemistry interaction is observed. A zonal wall treatment was developed based on a blend of SST low-Re turbulence wall treatment and law-of-the-wall, showing improved predictive capability. A heat flux extraction method was also proposed to estimate heat flux results from adiabatic flamelet model under the consideration that wall heat loss is small compared to the overall energy generated by chemical reactions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781600867392
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

Name48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

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