Modelling of hydrogen-air supersonic mixing and combustion in near-wall region

Abstract

Abstract Turbulent mixing, ignition, and flame stabilization in the non-premixed supersonic hydrogen-air flow is numerically modelled in a near-wall region. Mixing algorithm based on the turbulence approach SARANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes equations closed with Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model) with a diffusion model and a detailed kinetic model for hydrogen-air chemical reactions are employed. The system of governing equations that consists of basic conservation laws and the turbulence model equation is solved in a coupled manner with the LU–SGS–GMRES method. The model is applied to simulate the process of hydrogen injection into a M = 2.44 air flow with their subsequent mixing, ignition, and combustion in the Burrows– Kurkov chamber. The results are compared to available experimental and reference computational data. All calculations are carried out on the ‘MVS-10P’ JSCC RAS supercomputer cluster.