Supersonic Combustion Modeling and Simulation on General Platforms

Abstract

Supersonic combustion is an advanced technology for the next generation of aerospace vehicles. In the last two decades, numerical simulation has been widely used for the investigation on supersonic combustion. In this paper, the modeling and simulation of supersonic combustion on general platforms are thoroughly reviewed, with emphasis placed on turbulence modeling and turbulence–chemistry interactions treatment which are both essential for engineering computation of supersonic combustion. It is found that the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes methods on the general platforms have provided useful experience for the numerical simulation in engineering design of supersonic combustion, while the large eddy simulation methods need to be widely utilized and further developed on these platforms. Meanwhile, the species transport models as a kind of reasonable combustion model accounting for the turbulence–chemistry interactions in supersonic combustion have achieved good results. With the development of new combustion models, especially those designed in recent years for high-speed combustion, the turbulence–chemistry interactions treatment for numerical simulation of supersonic combustion based on general platforms is expected to be further mature in the future.