Influences of thermochemical non-equilibrium effects on Type III shock/ shock interaction at Mach 10

Shock/shock interactions (SSIs) often lead to high thermal loads. To understand the influences of thermochemical non-equilibrium effects on the Type III SSI, four gas models based on the assumption of thermal perfect gas (TPG), thermal equilibrium chemical non-equilibrium gas (TECNG), thermal non-equilibrium chemical frozen gas (TNCFG), and thermochemical non-equilibrium gas (TCNEG) are employed to simulate the Type III SSI at Mach 10. The intersection of incident shock and bow shock is determined by dimensionless intercept of 0.05 and 0.1. It is found that the chemical non-equilibrium effects significantly lift up the impingement position of shear layer by reducing the standoff distance of bow shock. As a result, the peaks of wall pressure and heat flux calculated by TECNG and TCNEG model are higher than TPG and TNCFG model, respectively. Type IIIa SSI occur in the flows calculated by the TECNG and TCNEG model for the case with a dimensionless intercept of 0.1. The peaks of wall pressure and heat flux calculated by TECNG model are both over four times higher than those of TPG model. The thermal non-equilibrium effects slightly increase the standoff distance of bow shock and lower the impingement position of shear layer. In addition, the thermal non-equilibrium reduces the angle to the horizontal direction of shear layer by increasing the specific heat ratio.

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This study investigates the effects of non-equilibrium gas on shock/shock interactions (SSIs). The results show that chemical non-equilibrium effects significantly increase the impingement position of the shear layer, while thermal non-equilibrium effects slightly increase the standoff distance of the bow shock.