A Study on Detonation of Jet-A Using a Reduced Mechanism

Abstract

A hydrocarbon representing a mixture of decane, hexane and benzene has been chosen in this work for the study of detonation of Jet-A fuel. The aims of this work are to reduce the chemistry of the individual chemical components, combine them to develop the chemistry of Jet-A and use the reduced mechanism in modeling the detonation of Jet-A. The reduced mechanism is intended only for CFD calculations where the temperature in the combustor is close to the adiabatic temperature. Detonation results using this mechanism were compared with experimental data and found to provide good agreement for the location of detonation initiation and the C-J velocity of the detonation.