Modified Marrone-Treanor model: parameterization and benchmarking for five-species air

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Main Authors: Torres, Erik, Gross, Thomas, Candler, Graham V., Schwartzentruber, Thomas E.
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author Torres, Erik
Gross, Thomas
Candler, Graham V.
Schwartzentruber, Thomas E.
author_facet Torres, Erik
Gross, Thomas
Candler, Graham V.
Schwartzentruber, Thomas E.
contents We present updated parameters for five-species air (N2, O2, NO, N and O) reactions to be used with the Modified Marrone-Treanor two-temperature model. The vibrational relaxation and chemical reaction rates are derived from quasiclassical trajectory calculations and direct molecular simulations using ab initio potential energy surfaces. The resulting model enables efficient computational fluid dynamics simulations of nonequilibrium air chemistry in hypersonic flows. We show that the model reproduces direct molecular simulation benchmark solutions with high accuracy in zero-dimensional heat baths representative of strong nonequilibrium post-shock conditions. The model's analytical expressions for dissociation rate coefficient and vibrational energy change per reaction ensure that the correct amount of energy is transferred between the vibrational and trans-rotational modes. Detailed balance is imposed for three-body recombination reactions and our simulations exhibit quasi-steady-state dissociation rates and proper approach to thermochemical equilibrium. In direct comparison with the Park TTv model, the Modified Marrone-Treanor model predicts significantly slower conversion of N2 into N below 10000 K and significantly more NO production at all temperatures. This is likely due to its significantly higher Zeldovich reaction rates compared to Park.
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spellingShingle Modified Marrone-Treanor model: parameterization and benchmarking for five-species air
Torres, Erik
Gross, Thomas
Candler, Graham V.
Schwartzentruber, Thomas E.
Chemical Physics
Fluid Dynamics
We present updated parameters for five-species air (N2, O2, NO, N and O) reactions to be used with the Modified Marrone-Treanor two-temperature model. The vibrational relaxation and chemical reaction rates are derived from quasiclassical trajectory calculations and direct molecular simulations using ab initio potential energy surfaces. The resulting model enables efficient computational fluid dynamics simulations of nonequilibrium air chemistry in hypersonic flows. We show that the model reproduces direct molecular simulation benchmark solutions with high accuracy in zero-dimensional heat baths representative of strong nonequilibrium post-shock conditions. The model's analytical expressions for dissociation rate coefficient and vibrational energy change per reaction ensure that the correct amount of energy is transferred between the vibrational and trans-rotational modes. Detailed balance is imposed for three-body recombination reactions and our simulations exhibit quasi-steady-state dissociation rates and proper approach to thermochemical equilibrium. In direct comparison with the Park TTv model, the Modified Marrone-Treanor model predicts significantly slower conversion of N2 into N below 10000 K and significantly more NO production at all temperatures. This is likely due to its significantly higher Zeldovich reaction rates compared to Park.
title Modified Marrone-Treanor model: parameterization and benchmarking for five-species air
topic Chemical Physics
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20521