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FAST, POSITIVE AND CONSERVATIVE SCHEME FOR CHEMICALLY REACTIVE HYPERSONIC FLOW

ENRICO BERTOLAZZI (Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Matematica, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy)
VINCENZO CASULLI (Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Matematica, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy)

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow

ISSN: 0961-5539

Article publication date: 1 May 1993

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Abstract

A finite difference method for solving the quasi one‐dimensional non‐equilibrium hypersonic flow equations in a diverging nozzle is presented and discussed. In chemically reacting flows the system of equations to be solved is very stiff. Some reactions may be several orders of magnitude faster than others and generally, they are much faster than the convective process except for very high Ma numbers. For this reason the development of a numerical scheme whose stability is independent of the chemical reaction rates is of importance. The main advantage of this scheme is the conservation of each chemical component, the positivity of densities and vibrational energies, as well as its relative simplicity, which results in a fast computer code.

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BERTOLAZZI, E. and CASULLI, V. (1993), "FAST, POSITIVE AND CONSERVATIVE SCHEME FOR CHEMICALLY REACTIVE HYPERSONIC FLOW", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 3 No. 5, pp. 379-398. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017537

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