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Kerosene-fueled supersonic combustion modeling based on skeletal mechanisms

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A brief review of the recent advances in kerosene-fueled supersonic combustion modeling is present by comparing the fuels, reviewing the kinetic mechanisms, and introducing recent modeling results. The advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen and kerosene for the scramjet combustor are compared to show that kerosene is a more viable fuel option for a Mach number range of 4–8. However, detailed kinetic mechanisms for kerosene, which usually contain thousands of elementary reactions, must be significantly reduced for use in modeling. As of this writing, the smallest skeletal kerosene mechanism has only 19 species and 53 reversible reactions. In contrast to pioneer models based on global chemistry, the current kerosene-fueled supersonic combustion models based on reduced/skeletal chemistry are classified as second-stage. The influence of kinetic mechanisms, global equivalence ratios, inlet Mach number, geometric shape, and domain symmetry are reviewed based on high-fidelity models and available measurements. With the advances in computational technology, models with accurate descriptions of both flow and chemistry are becoming a promising, indispensable approach for the study of supersonic combustion.

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This research is supported by the Training Program of the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 91641110), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 11502270), and the State Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics Innovative Foundation (Grant LHD2018JS01). The authors are grateful to the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin for providing the computational resource.

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Yao, W. Kerosene-fueled supersonic combustion modeling based on skeletal mechanisms. Acta Mech. Sin. 35, 1155–1177 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-019-00891-w

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