Development and validation of numerical tools for the Detonation Research Test Facility

This presentation describes recent progress in the development of a new multidimensional compressible reactive-flow solver for the Navier-Stokes equations (LRFPFCT) that aims to study interactions of shocks, detonations, and turbulence. LRFPFCT implements the 3D Flux Corrected Transport algorithm to solve the conservation equations and uses the Chemical-Diffusive model (CDM) for conversion of fuel to products with energy release. LRFPFCT is built on AMReX, the adaptive mesh refinement framework and has been tested on GPU architectures. One particular use of this tool is to support the development of the new experimental facility, the Detonation Research Test Facility (DRTF), now under construction at Texas A&M University. Here we describe a series of numerical simulations for typical combustion applications including interactions of flames, shocks and detonations. These results are compared with experimental data and benchmark simulation results.