H2 injection and combustion in a Mach 5 air inlet through a Viscous Mach Interaction

Abstract Hydrogen injection has been investigated numerically in a flow configuration caused by strong shock–boundary layer interaction named Viscous Mach Interaction (VMI). The geometry that leads to this configuration is used as a hypersonic inlet. The subsonic zone, because of boundary layer detachment, allows hydrogen to be injected along the wall of the central body where combustion processes occur along a slip line when hydrogen is mixed with the incoming air flow far from the wall of the central body.