An Efficient Numerical Method For Reactive Flow With General Equation Of States

This paper presents an efficient method to simulate the reactive flow for general equation of states with the compressible fluid model coupled with reactive rate equation. The important aspect is to deal with mixture of different phases in one cell, which will inevitably happen in the Eulerian method for reactive flow. Physical variables such as the pressure,velocity, and speed of sound in each cell need to be reconstructed for the Harten-Lax-Leer-Contact (HLLC) Riemann solver, which will result in nonlinear algebra equations, and these reconstructed variables are used to obtain the flux. Numerical examples of stable and unstable detonations with different equation of states demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of this method. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.