Erik TORRES, Thomas E SCHWARTZENTRUBER
DOI Number: XXX-YYY-ZZZ
Conference number: HiSST2024-00231
We perform computational fluid dynamics verification studies of the Modified Marrone-Treanor multi-temperature nonequilibrium chemistry model for high-temperature air on a variety of canonical flow fields. Suitable reference solutions meant to test the model in scenarios applicable to hypersonic flight and ground test facilities have been generated via first-principles Direct Molecular Simulations, which rely exclusively on ab inito potential energy surfaces generated by computational chemists to predict the chemical and thermodynamic evolution of the flow field. The Modified Marrone-Treanor model has been built upon the same foundation by employing kinetic rates and vibrational energy-chemistry coupling terms derived from the same potential energy surfaces.