Issue 16, 2018

Multi-fuel surrogate chemical kinetic mechanisms for real world applications

Abstract

The most important driving force for development of detailed chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms in combustion is the desire by researchers to simulate practical systems. This paper reviews the parallel evolution of kinetic reaction mechanisms and applications of those models to practical, real engines. Early, quite simple, kinetic models for small fuel molecules were extremely valuable in analyzing long-standing, poorly understood applied ignition and flame quenching problems, and later kinetic models have been applied to much more complex flame propagation, problems including autoignition in spark-ignition engines and issues related to octane numbers and knock in modern, high compression ratio and other engines. The recent emergence of very large, multi-fuel surrogate kinetic mechanisms that can address many different fuel types and real engine applications is discussed as a modern analytical tool that can be used for a wide variety of practical applications.

Graphical abstract: Multi-fuel surrogate chemical kinetic mechanisms for real world applications

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
23 nov 2017
Accepted
23 jan 2018
First published
24 jan 2018

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018,20, 10588-10606

Multi-fuel surrogate chemical kinetic mechanisms for real world applications

C. K. Westbrook, M. Mehl, W. J. Pitz, G. Kukkadapu, S. Wagnon and K. Zhang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 10588 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP07901J

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