Vehicles traveling at high supersonic and hypersonic flight speeds experience high thermal heat loads from aerodynamic heating that exceed the heat sink capacity of existing thermal management systems. Conventional thermal management systems are limited by the physical heat sink capacity of hydrocarbon fuels. One method to increase the heat sink capacity of hydrocarbon fuels is to carry out endothermic reactions on the hydrocarbon fuel near the heat load. The breaking of C-C bonds over a catalyst, otherwise known as catalytic cracking, is an endothermic reaction that can provide a substantial heat sink for so called endothermic fuels. Understanding the effects of catalyst porosity and hydrocarbon molecular structure for catalytic cracking under supercritical conditions is necessary for the rational design of catalyst/fuel pairings for endothermic fuels. In this study, reactions of linear, branched, and cyclic hydrocarbons were performed over micro-and mesoporous solid acid catalysts under supercritical conditions. Measurements of intrinsic rate parameters were used to develop a fundamental understanding of the reaction mechanism under supercritical conditions.