Supersonic film cooling using fuel on board is an effective way to simultaneously shield the huge heat and momentum flux transported from the mainstream to the wall in a scramjet engine. The self-ignition and combustion of the injected fuel film will significantly change the turbulent transport behavior in the boundary layer. To reveal the effects of the boundary layer combustion on the near-wall turbulence and wall fluxes, large eddy simulations (LES) of the Burrows-Kurkov supersonic combustion experiment using hydrogen as film are performed based on the in-house solver scramjetFoam. The solver successfully captures the additional skin friction reduction phenomenon induced by the boundary layer combustion compared to other numerical works using LES in public literatures. The results reveal that the further increased anisotropy of turbulence combined with the low-density region contributes to remarkable suppression of turbulent transport processes in the wall-normal direction. The self-ignition point of the hydrogen film is found to oscillate back and forth in a span of 80mm which significantly enhances the turbulence in the boundary layer. However, the increased turbulent fluctuating velocity is mainly concentrated in the streamwise direction, while the other two components are suppressed instead. The findings are also essential for improving engineering computations based on Reynolds averaged simulation (RAS) method.
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