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2021 , Volume 26, ¹ 1, p.33-49

Mikhalchenko E.V., Nikitin V.F., Stamov L.I., Phylippov Y.G.

Modelling of a rotating detonation engine combustion chamber

Purpose. To create software for studying the features of the transition from ignition and deflagration to a detonation mode in a three-dimensional configuration, including the formation and propagation of a rotating detonation complex, which takes transient processes into account.

Methodology. The software is based on a mathematical model for multi-component gas dynamics with chemical reactions and turbulent transport for diffusion, viscosity, and thermal conductivity. High-order calculation schemes are used. To solve a stiff subsystem of kinetic equations, a hybrid implicit-explicit Novikov method is used (a specific variant of a Rosenbrock method).

Findings. Authors created a code which calculates physical processes within a multi-component gas dynamics paradigm. The code accounts for chemical processes and turbulence modelling. The shape of computation domain and the type of boundary conditions is user defined. These include boundary conditions at the wall, as well as inflow and outflow conditions for both subsonic, and supersonic modes. Initial conditions can be set up differently in different regions of the domain. The software consists of several modules: a mesh-building module, initial state creation, calculation of new time layers saving the intermediate and final results at control points with a possibility to resume interrupted calculations, and post-processing modules. Authors developed blocks of solutions for various elementary chemical kinetic mechanisms, one of considered mechanisms is build up by themselves, others are published previously. It was obtained that the details of the 3D transient problem solution significantly depend on the chosen mechanism.

Îriginality/value. The software complex makes it possible to process numerical modelling of a detonation engine combustion chamber in a 3D configuration considering chemical reactions and turbulent transport. Different chemical kinetics mechanisms are utilizable, and thrust characteristics could be obtained.

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Keywords: mathematical modelling, detonation,deflagration, engine with a rotating detonation wave, chemical kinetics

doi: 10.25743/ICT.2021.26.1.003

Author(s):
Mikhalchenko Elena Viktorovna
Position: Junior Research Scientist
Office: Federal Science Center Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 117218, Russia, Moscow, 36-1, Nakhimovskiy pr.
Phone Office: (495) 7182110
E-mail: mikhalchenkolena@yandex.ru
SPIN-code: 7946-8835

Nikitin Valeriy Fedorovich
PhD. , Associate Professor
Office: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Address: 119991, Russia, Moscow, Leninskie Gory,1
Phone Office: (495) 9393754
E-mail: vfnikster@gmail.com

Stamov Lyuben Ivanovich
Position: Junior Research Scientist
Office: Federal Science Center Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 117218, Russia, Moscow, Leninskie Gory,1
Phone Office: (495) 7182110
E-mail: lyubenstamov@mail.ru
SPIN-code: 5351-1868

Phylippov Yuriy Grigorevich
Dr. , Associate Professor
Office: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Address: 119991, Russia, Moscow, Leninskie Gory,1
Phone Office: (495) 9393754
E-mail: mech.math.msu@rambler.ru

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