Soot inception: Carbonaceous nanoparticle formation in flames

JW Martin, M Salamanca, M Kraft - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2022 - Elsevier
The route by which gas-phase molecules in hydrocarbon flames form condensed-phase
carbonaceous nanoparticles (incipient soot) is reviewed. These products of incomplete …

[HTML][HTML] Classical and reactive molecular dynamics: Principles and applications in combustion and energy systems

Q Mao, M Feng, XZ Jiang, Y Ren, KH Luo… - Progress in Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) has evolved into a ubiquitous, versatile and powerful
computational method for fundamental research in science branches such as biology …

π-Diradical aromatic soot precursors in flames

JW Martin, L Pascazio, A Menon, J Akroyd… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Soot emitted from incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels contributes to global
warming and causes human disease. The mechanism by which soot nanoparticles form …

A molecular investigation on lignin thermochemical conversion and carbonaceous organics deposition induced catalyst deactivation

C Chen, R Volpe, X Jiang - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface coking is the primary deactivation pattern of metal-based catalyst in biofuel
reforming, which hinders the commercial utilisation of biomass. In this study, molecular …

Numerical simulations of yield-based sooting tendencies of aromatic fuels using ReaxFF molecular dynamics

H Kwon, S Shabnam, ACT van Duin, Y Xuan - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
We present the first ReaxFF Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to quantitatively predict
the sooting tendencies of various fuels. The specific sooting tendency metric used in this …

Molecular dynamics simulation of soot formation during diesel combustion with oxygenated fuel addition

C Chen, X Jiang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This study investigates the soot formation process of diesel combustion using molecular
dynamics simulations with reactive force fields by examining the effects of five oxygenated …

Gas-phase synthesis of coronene through stepwise directed ring annulation

SJ Goettl, LB Tuli, AM Turner, Y Reyes… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular beam experiments together with electronic structure calculations provide the first
evidence of a complex network of elementary gas-phase reactions culminating in the bottom …

Reactivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon soot precursors: Kinetics and equilibria

A Menon, JW Martin, J Akroyd… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The thermodynamics and kinetics of cross-linking reactions between PAHs of various
reactive edge types that are observed in soot precursors are explored using density …

On the reactive coagulation of incipient soot nanoparticles

D Hou, L Pascazio, J Martin, Y Zhou, M Kraft… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we studied the coagulation process of two PAH clusters with diameter∼ 2 nm
using reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To describe the coagulation process …

Effects of the electric field on soot formation in combustion: A coupled charged particle PBE-CFD framework

A Liu, KH Luo, S Rigopoulos, W Jones - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, a coupled PBE-CFD framework has been proposed to study counterflow non-
premixed flames and soot formation under an external electric field. This framework …