Unsteady shock wave propagation through ducts has many applications, ranging from blast wave shelter design to advanced high-speed propulsion systems. The research objective of this study was improved fundamental understanding of the transient flow structures during unsteady shock wave propagation through rectangular ducts with varying cross-sectional area. This research focused on the fluid dynamics of the unsteady shock-induced flow fields, with an emphasis placed on understanding and characterizing the mechanisms behind flow compression (wave structures), flow induction (via shock waves), and enhanced mixing (via shock-induced viscous shear layers). A theoretical and numerical (CFD) parametric study was performed, in which the effects of these parameters on the unsteady flow fields were examined: incident shock strength, area ratio, and viscous mode (inviscid, laminar, and turbulent). Two geometries were considered: the backward-facing step (BFS) geometry, which provided a benchmark and conceptual framework, and the splitter plate (SP) geometry, which was a canonical representation of the engine flow path. The theoretical analysis was inviscid, quasi-1D and quasi-steady; and the computational analysis was fully 2D, time-accurate, and viscous. The theory provided the wave patterns and primary wave strengths for the BFS geometry, and the simulations verified the wave patterns and quantified the effects of geometry and viscosity. It was shown that the theoretical wave patterns on the BFS geometry can be used to systematically analyze the transient, 2D, viscous flows on the SP geometry. This work also highlighted the importance and the role of oscillating shock and expansion waves in the development of these unsteady flows. The potential for both upstream and downstream flow induction was addressed. Positive upstream flow induction was not found in this study due to the persistent formation of an upstream-moving shock wave. Enhanced mixing was addressed by examining the evolution of the unsteady shear layer, its instability, and their effects on the flow field. The instability always appeared after the reflected shock interaction, and was exacerbated in the laminar cases and damped out in the turbulent cases. This research provided new understanding of the long-term evolution of these confined flows. Lastly, the turbulent work is one of the few turbulent studies on these flows.

Le calcul d'écoulements dans les générateurs de vapeur des réacteurs à eau pressurisée est un problème complexe, faisant intervenir différents régimes d'écoulement et plusieurs échelles de temps et d'espace. Un scénario accidentel peut être caractérisé par des variations très rapides pour un nombre de Mach de l'ordre de l'unité. A l'inverse en régime nominal l'écoulement peut être stationnaire, à bas nombre de Mach. De plus quelque soit le régime considéré, la complexité de la géométrie d'un générateur de vapeur conduit à modéliser le faisceau de tubes par un milieu poreux, d'où le problème de couplage à l'interface avec le milieu fluide.Un schéma de correction de pression tout-Mach en volumes finis colocalisés a été introduit pour les équations d'Euler et de Navier-Stokes. L'existence d'une solution discrète, la consistance du schéma au sens de Lax et la positivité de l'énergie interne ont été démontrées. Le schéma a été ensuite étendu aux modèles diphasiques homogènes du code GENEPI développé au CEA. Enfin un algorithme Multigrille-AMR a été adaptée pour permettre de mettre en oeuvre notre schéma sur des maillages adaptatifs.Concernant la seconde problématique, une extension de la loi de Beavers-Joseph a été proposée pour le régime convectif. En introduisant un saut d'énergie cinétique à l'interface, on retrouve une loi de type Beavers-Joseph mais avec un coefficient de glissement non-linéaire, qui dépend de la vitesse fluide à l'interface et de la vitesse Darcy. La validité de cette nouvelle condition d'interface a été évaluée en réalisant des calculs de simulation numérique directe à différents nombres de Reynolds. / The numerical simulation of steam generators of pressurized water reactors is a complex problem, involving different flow regimes and a wide range of length and time scales. An accidental scenario may be associated with very fast variations of the flow with an important Mach number. In contrast in the nominal regime the flow may be stationary, at low Mach number. Moreover whatever the regime under consideration, the array of U-tubes is modelled by a porous medium in order to avoid taking into account the complex geometry of the steam generator, which entails the issue of the coupling conditions at the interface with the free-fluid.We propose a new pressure-correction scheme for cell-centered finite volumes for solving the compressible Navier-Stokes and Euler equations at all Mach number. The existence of a discrete solution, the consistency of the scheme in the Lax sense and the positivity of the internal energy were proved. Then the scheme was extended to the homogeneous two-phase flow models of the GENEPI code developed at CEA. Lastly a multigrid-AMR algorithm was adapted for using our pressure-correction scheme on adaptive grids.Regarding the second issue addressed in this work, an extension to the Beavers-Joseph law was proposed for the convective regime. By introducing a jump in the kinetic energy at the interface, we recover an interface condition close to the Beavers-Joseph law but with a non-linear slip coefficient, which depends on the free-fluid velocity at the interface and on the Darcy velocity. The validity of this new transmission condition was assessed with direct numerical simulations at different Reynolds numbers.