Simulation of Aviation Kerosene Combustion in Dual-mode Scramjet Combustor

Supersonic combustion of aviation kerosene is investigated under the flight conditions of Mach number 5 and fuel-air equivalence ratio 0.551. The trajectories of the fuel droplets and the heat/mass transfer between them are simulated by means of discrete phase model (DPM). The k-ω model is chosen for turbulence closure and the non-premixed probability density function (PDF) approach is used to calculate the turbulence-chemistry interaction. The calculated wall static pressure and the total pressure loss coefficient are very close to the experiment results. The strut and cavity devices significantly increase the combustion efficiency.