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VULCAN: The Industry Standard for Supersonic Combustion

MOST UNIQUE FEATURES
  • First Code for Supersonic Combustion
  • Code Used by U.S. DoD Major Contractors
  • Code Used at NASA Langley, the NASA Center for Hypersonic Flight Development
OTHER IMPORTANT FEATURES
  • 36+ Years of NASA and AFRL Development and Validation
  • WENO, Compact; MUSCL
TURBULENCE-CHEMISTRY INTERACTION
  • Eddy Break-Up, Assumed PDF, Transported Species
HYBRID RANS/LES (GEN II)
  • Model of Edwards and Baurle
 
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ROBUST LOW-DISSIPATION INVISCID FLUX SCHEMES; HYBRIDIZAITON OF DISSIPATIVE AND NON-DISSIPATIVE SCHEMES VIA A DISCONTINUITY SENSOR
  • Blend of Dissipative (MUSCL, PPM, or WENO) with Symmetric Reconstruction
  • Blend of Dissipative (MUSCL, PPM, or WENO) with the α-split Flux Scheme
INVISCID FLUX SCHEMES
  • Roe Flux Difference Split Scheme with Entropy Fixes, Edwards Low Dissipation Flux Split Scheme, Toro HLLC Scheme, Carpenter & Fisher α-split Flux Scheme
CONVERGENCE ACCELERATION
  • Multi-grid, Mesh Sequencing, Preconditioning

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