The improved performance of plasma assisted combustion (PAC) simulations using the fully analytical Jacobian

Y Ban, F Zhang, N Zhang, S Zhong, J Zhu, Y Pei - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
The open-source package ZDPlasKin is integrated into OpenFOAM to develop the ZDP-OF
platform, facilitating simultaneous computations of plasma discharge and chemical reactions …

Stable combustion of ammonia in an internal combustion engine: A single fuel approach enabled by multi-pulse transient plasma ignition

B Zhang, M Rubio, F Egolfopoulos, SB Cronin - Fuel, 2025 - Elsevier
It was demonstrated that the use of nanosecond pulse transient plasma enables stable
combustion of ammonia in an internal combustion engine (ie, a modified natural gas engine) …

Numerical investigation of lean methane flame response to NRP discharges actuation

N Barléon, DA Lacoste, AM Alkhalifa, O Vermorel… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the response of a laminar methane-air flame to Nanosecond
Repetitively Pulsed (NRP) discharges in a canonical wall-stabilized burner using a …

ChemPlasKin: a general-purpose program for unified gas and plasma kinetics simulations

X Shao, DA Lacoste, HG Im - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04224, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work introduces ChemPlasKin, a freely accessible solver optimized for zero-
dimensional (0D) simulations of chemical kinetics of neutral gas in non-equilibrium plasma …

A Computational Study of Plasma-Assisted Ammonia/Hydrogen Combustion Using a Phenomenological Model

X Shao, DA Lacoste, HG Im - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Nanosecond repetitively pulsed (NRP) discharges offer promising avenues for enhancing
the combustion characteristics of ammonia (NH3). However, the intricacies underlying this …