A new scramjet engine model has been developed to support hypersonic vehicle design studies and flight dynamics and control system analysis. This paper explains the methodology and the governing equations for the new propulsion system model that is suitable for use with a control oriented dynamic model of a hypersonic vehicle. Previous propulsion models used for this purpose were based on simple Rayleigh flow for the combustion process, but despite this, captured the propulsion system

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... ns with the vehicle aerodynamics and structural dynamics. A new, higher fidelity propulsion system model is constructed that simulates numerous phenomena that were neglected in the Rayleigh flow approach. The new model is of higher fidelity, and therefore it is not designed to calculate the flow physics on a timescale that is suitable for dynamics and control simulations. Instead it will be used as a truth model and the starting point for the derivation of a reduced-order model. Specific phenomena that are included in the new model are: a pre-combustion shock train within the isolator and its interactions with the combustor, the loss of stagnation pressure due to gas dissociation and recombination, wall heat transfer and skin friction, a fuel-air mixing submodel, and a finite-rate chemistry and autoignition reaction mechanism. It is shown that the new propulsion system model expands the operability envelope as compared to the previous model by accommodating ramjet combustion, which occurs at high supersonic/low hypersonic flight Mach numbers.