Accurate capture of fuel reaction heat and kinetic characteristics is crucial for the development of thermal management technologies in advanced engines. Existing modeling methods for supercritical pyrolysis reaction flows require complex analytical solutions for specific real-gas equations of state (EOS) and lack scalability. In this study, a differential derivative-based simulation method for supercritical reactive flows is established, enabling universal coupling with multiple cubic real-gas EOS. Using n-decane as a representative fuel, comparative investigations were conducted to evaluate the differences in predicting thermophysical properties and reaction behavior during high-pressure pyrolysis between the ideal gas EOS and four real-gas EOS (PR, SRK, PRVT, and RKPR). The results show that the ideal gas model exhibits significant prediction errors in density and viscosity under high-pressure conditions, particularly at low temperatures. The underestimation of density and viscosity leads to deviations in reaction rate calculations. The PRVT and RKPR equations significantly improve prediction accuracy for density, viscosity, and temperature through the introduction of volume translation and Zc fitting parameters, respectively. In outlet temperature predictions, the four cubic EOS show relative errors not exceeding 0.3% compared with experimental data, while the ideal gas model yields a 2.18% error. The results indicate that among real gas models predicting cracking conversion rates, the PR model exhibits the highest relative error of 10.96%, while the SRK model shows the lowest relative error of 6.66%. The ideal gas model, in contrast, demonstrates a significantly higher relative error of 20.41%. This work provides a novel methodology for supercritical reactive flow simulations and offers practical guidance for EOS selection.
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