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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has its significance during the combustion of heavy hydrocarbons in the internal combustion (IC) engines. Owing to its importance the measurements of H2O2 dissociation rate have been reported mostly using the shock tube apparatus. These types of experimental measurements are although quite reliable but require high cost. On the other hand, numerical simulations provide low cost and reliable solutions especially using computation fluid dynamics (CFD) software. In the current study an experimental shock tube flow is modeled using open access platform OpenFOAM to investigate the thermal decomposition of H2O2. Using two different convective schemes, limitedLinear and upwind, the propagation of shock wave and resultant dissociation reaction are simulated. The results of the simulations are compared with the experimental data. It is observed that the rate constant measured using the simulation data deviates from the experimental results in the low temperature range and approaches the experimental values as the temperature is raised.
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Bhatti, M.R., Sheikh, N.A., Manzoor, S. et al. Numerical study of hydrogen peroxide thermal decomposition in a shock tube. J. Therm. Sci. 26, 235–244 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-017-0935-6
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