Development and Validation of a Compressible Reacting Flow Solver for Supersonic Combustion

This project developed and validated compressibleCentralReactingFoam, an OpenFOAM-based solver for high-speed, compressible, multicomponent reacting gas flows.

• Combined density-based compressible-flow capabilities from rhoCentralFoam with reacting-flow modeling from reactingFoam.
• Solved Favre-filtered LES governing equations.
• Validated on shock-tube cases, 3D Ladenburg jet, and DLR scramjet.

• Shock-tube simulations reproduced reference profiles.
• 3D jet matched experimental data with errors below 3%.
• WALE produced best agreement with temperature data.

• Built compressible reacting OpenFOAM solver.
• Validated across 1D, 3D, and 2D configurations.
• Integrated LES and detailed chemistry modeling.