Simulation of nonequilibrium hypersonic flows (Q686906)

The algorithm presented is based on a fully conservative formulation of the conservation equations and uses a first-order flux-splitting scheme. The large system of ordinary differential and algebraic equations resulting from the spatial discretization is solved by a time-accurate implicit extrapolation method. In comparing two different nonequilibrium reaction schemes we show that finite rate chemistry has a strong influence on the computed flowfield, e.g. on the maximum temperature in the shock wave or the species concentrations.