Large-Eddy Simulation of Reactive Flow in Rocket Engine Combustion Chamber and Turbine Stages

March 14, 2025

TIME: 3:30 PM

LOCATION: GMCS 314

SPEAKER: Feng Liu, University of California, Irvine, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

ABSTRACT: Simulation of three-dimensional unsteady reactive flows pose major challenges to computational methods for engineering applications. In this talk, I will present an efficient, accurate, and robust Computational Fluid Dynamics software package for various multi-disciplinary engineering applications including aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, and combustion simulations. The method is based on a finite-volume method on structured multiblock grids with match/patched interfaces to allow treatment of complex geometry and sliding meshes in treating relative motion of rotor blade rows in turbomachinery computation. Successes and remaining challenges will be presented in our latest work on large-eddy simulations in rocket engine combustion chambers and the reactive flow in a turbine-burner rotor stage.

HOST: Valeria Barra

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