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Numerical simulation of combustion flow field in RD-170 chamber

  • Li Dongxia*
  • , Xu Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • School of Astronautics

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Abstract

The axisymmetric and three-dimensional combustion processes of LOX/kerosene in RD-170 thrust chamber are presented in this paper. An efficient CFD solver with kerosene's finite-rate combustion kinetic model is designed. The finite volume method and LU-SGS method are adopted, while the Van-Leer scheme is used to discrete the inviscid fluxes and center scheme to the viscous fluxes. The whole calculation domain is divided into several blocks, and the 3D N-S code has been parallelized with the use of MPI to increase the calculation efficiency and reduce the calculation time. All the codes have been validated early. The parallel code solver is successfully used to calculate the combustion flow field in the liquid rocket engines and has shown that it is very efficient for the calculation. Both axisymmetric calculation results and 3-D results accord with experiment very good.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
StatePublished - 2009
Event45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: 2 Aug 20095 Aug 2009

Publication series

Name45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Conference

Conference45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period2/08/095/08/09

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