Numerical study on regenerative cooling technology with endothermic hydrocarbon fuel: A comprehensive review

K Tian, P Yang, Z Tang, Z Cheng, J Wang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the phenomena and challenges in regenerative cooling, including
transcritical thermophysical properties, fuel pyrolysis, and surface coking. The …

Thermal performance evaluation of a distributed regenerative cooling system using supercritical catalytic steam reforming of aviation kerosene for scramjet engine

S Liu, L Han, Q Cheng, P Wang, Y Zhang, F Li, L Liu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Regenerative cooling technology plays an important role for development of scramjet
engine. In order to further improve thermal performance of regenerative cooling system with …

The heat transfer mechanism coupling pyrolysis and flow of hydrocarbon fuel in heated tube under supercritical pressure

D Lin, H Li, Z Cheng, J Zhu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The coupling mechanism between pyrolysis and fluid flow of endothermic hydrocarbon fuels
plays a crucial role in the design of regenerative cooling systems for advanced aircraft. In …

Thermal behavior of steam reforming reaction at different aspect ratios in the scramjet engine cooling channel

Z Wang, Y Feng, F Chen, J Qin - Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
The structure of the regenerative cooling channels is crucial for high-performance scramjet
engines. To investigate the effect of catalyst coating thickness and aspect ratio on the …

Thermal response time characteristics of endothermic hydrocarbon fuel in cooling channels with thermal cracking

K Wu, J He, Y Feng, J Qin, H Huang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
The varying operating conditions of hypersonic vehicles often lead to variations in the
demand for cooling capability and the heat transfer performance of hydrocarbon fuel in …

Insight into jet-regeneration composite cooling technology employed in scramjet: Significance of relative positions of two jet holes

Y Li, Q Zhou, Y Zhang, J Zhang, S Ma, B Sundén… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the further increase in hypersonic vehicle speed, the scramjet faces supersonic
combustion and aerodynamic heating, and the conventional single cooling method like …

Numerical study on transient coke deposition and heat transfer characteristics of hydrocarbon fuel in a mini-channel under varying wall heat flux

G Wang, L Han, S Liu, P Wang, W Zhang - International Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dynamic coke deposition has significant influence on flow and heat transfer characteristics
of regenerative cooling using hydrocarbon fuel. In the present work, the effect of coke …

Deep learning-based prediction of flow and heat transfer in pyrolytic hydrocarbon fuels at supercritical pressure

S Xu, Y Feng, F Chen, C Li, X Wei, J Qin - Physics of Fluids, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
The prediction of flow and heat transfer characteristics of supercritical hydrocarbon fuels is
crucial for the research of regenerative cooling systems in hypersonic vehicles. This paper …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and Numerical Investigations of Flowing N-Decane Partial Catalytic Steam Reforming at Supercritical Pressure

F Chen, J He, Y Feng, Z Wang - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Steam reforming is an effective method for improving heat sinks of hypersonic aircraft at high
flight Mach numbers. However, unlike the industrial process of producing hydrogen with a …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of water phase change rotating cooling for high temperature turbine

H Sun, P Gao, H Li, F Hou, P Yuan - Results in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal protection of high temperature turbine restricts the performance of gas turbine. In
order to increase turbine inlet temperature, water phase change rotating cooling scheme for …