Ethanol is an attractive oxygenate increasingly used for blending with petroleum-derived
gasoline yielding beneficial combustion and emissions behavior for a range of internal …

This work seeks to characterize the fidelity needed in a gasoline surrogate with the intent to
replicate the complex autoignition behavior exhibited within advanced combustion engines …

Performing an uncertainty analysis for complex measurement tasks, such as those found in
engine research, presents unique challenges. Also, because of the excessive computational …

In this study, a skeletal chemical kinetic mechanism for gasoline surrogates is developed
from a detailed mechanism by applying several reduction techniques. Directed relation …

Low-temperature gasoline combustion engines can provide high efficiencies with very low
NOx and particulate emissions, but rapid control of the combustion timing (50% burn point …

High-performance renewable fuels (HPFs) are an alternative to conventional petroleum
fuels that could greatly reduce the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines. The …

This work analyzes the inability of the Octane Index (OI) to characterize the autoignition
resistance of gasoline-like fuels in a Low-Temperature Gasoline Combustion (LTGC) …

Low-temperature gasoline combustion (LTGC) engines can provide high efficiencies and
extremely low NOx and particulate emissions, but controlling the combustion timing remains …

Combustion chemistry models have been developed with inherent uncertainties in them.
Whether a model that is developed using fundamental combustion experiments is capable …

Abstract ϕ-sensitivity is a fuel characteristic that has important benefits for the operation and
control of low-temperature gasoline combustion (LTGC) engines. However, regular gasoline …