Improved two-temperature model with correction of non-Boltzmann effect for oxygen and nitrogen

Abstract

In thermochemical nonequilibrium processes, both the nonequilibrium between different kinds of internal energy of molecules and the non-Boltzmann (NB) energy state distribution significantly impact the dissociation rate coefficients. The conventional two-temperature (2-T) model fails to accurately portray these effects, especially the NB effect. Consequently, dissociation rate coefficients calculated by the 2-T model are inaccurate in simulating strong thermochemical nonequilibrium flow, resulting in a surface heat flux inconsistent with experimental data. This article investigates the influencing factor of the NB effect on the dissociation rate coefficient using the state-to-state (STS) method during the zero-dimensional heating process of ${\mathrm{N}}_2$ and ${\mathrm{O}}_2$. Based on this, we develop a fitting formula to precisely correct the NB effect. Furthermore, we propose an improved model by integrating this fitting formula with the single-group linear maximum entropy model, which considers only the effect of nonequilibrium between different kinds of internal energy. This improved model provides an accurate description of thermochemical nonequilibrium on the dissociation rate coefficients. To validate the effectiveness of the improved model, we simulate the nonequilibrium process following a normal shock. The results demonstrate that in strong thermochemical nonequilibrium flow, compared to the 2-T Park model, the maximum and average discrepancies between the translation temperatures calculated by the improved model and those by the STS method are reduced by more than 68% and 82%, respectively. Additionally, the results closely align with experimental data, indicating that the improved model can accurately depict the effect of thermal nonequilibrium on dissociation rate coefficients.