Looking Back at a 2024 Full Paper: Validation of High Speed Reactive Flow Solver in OpenFOAM with Detailed Chemistry

This week we at the OpenFOAM Journal are looking back at publication from our Full Papers section from 2024.

Vigneshwaran Sankar, Karl P. Chatelain, Josué Melguizo-Gavilanes, and Deanna A. Lacoste. The title is "Validation of High Speed Reactive Flow Solver in OpenFOAM with Detailed Chemistry".

The authors validated an OpenFOAM-based hybrid-central solver called reactingPimpleCentralFoam to compute hydrogen-based detonations. This pressure-based semi-implicit compressible flow solver was tested using 1D and 2D simulations with detailed chemistry on different weakly and moderately unstable mixtures.

If you work with high-speed reactive flows and detonation simulations, this is a very good paper to read. As always, the source code and case files are provided so you can use the solver for your own setups.

You can find the article and the files here.