Investigation of Oscillation Modes in a High-Speed Flow with Heat Supply. II. Numerical Simulation

Abstract Results of numerical simulations of turbulent reacting flows in a channel with sudden expansion with due allowance for injection of hydrogen jets into a supersonic (M = 4) air flow are reported. The simulations are performed in a three-dimensional unsteady formulation with the use of the ANSYS Fluent software under the conditions of experiments performed in the IT-302M high-enthalpy wind tunnel. The computations predict a self-oscillatory regime with intense oscillations of pressure and integral heat release. The period-averaged pressure distribution is in reasonable agreement with the experimental measurements, and the frequency of pressure oscillations is within the range obtained in the experiments. Based on a detailed analysis of the flow characteristics within the full cycle of oscillations, the feedback mechanism responsible for the emergence of self-supported oscillations is refined.