Soot formation in laminar counterflow flames

Y Wang, SH Chung - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Many practical soot-emitting combustion systems such as diesel and jet engines rely on
diffusion flames for efficient and reliable operation. Efforts to mitigate soot emissions from …

Coupling an LES approach and a soot sectional model for the study of sooting turbulent non-premixed flames

P Rodrigues, B Franzelli, R Vicquelin, O Gicquel… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to their negative impacts on environment and human health, future regulations on soot
emissions are expected to become stricter, in particular by controlling the size of the emitted …

Soot modeling in turbulent diffusion flames: review and prospects

S Valencia, S Ruiz, J Manrique, C Celis… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2021 - Springer
This work reviews the state of the art of the main soot modeling approaches used in
turbulent diffusion flames. Accordingly, after a short introduction about the subject addressed …

Effects of H2 addition on soot formation in counterflow diffusion flames of propane: A comparative analysis with He and N2 addition

Q Wang, L Xu, Y Wang - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Co-firing hydrogen (H 2) with hydrocarbon fuels is widely seen as an effective
pathway to reduce soot emissions. Nevertheless, the soot-reducing potential of H 2 can be …

Experimental and soot modeling studies of ethylene counterflow diffusion flames: Non-monotonic influence of the oxidizer composition on soot formation

L Xu, F Yan, M Zhou, Y Wang, SH Chung - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
Previous soot studies in counterflow diffusion flames revealed that the sooting limit curve in
regions with large oxygen mole fractions (XO) exhibited marked bending behaviors that …

Modelling of soot aerosol dynamics in turbulent flow

S Rigopoulos - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2019 - Springer
Aerosol dynamics plays an important role in the modelling of soot formation in combustion
processes, as it is responsible for predicting the distribution of size and shape of soot …

Modelling of soot coalescence and aggregation with a two-population balance equation model and a conservative finite volume method

B Sun, S Rigopoulos, A Liu - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of the present paper is to develop a population balance approach for
modelling soot formation that distinguishes between coalescence and aggregation and …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and numerical investigation on soot formation and evolution of particle size distribution in laminar counterflow ethylene flames

A Kalbhor, R Schmitz, A Ramirez, P Vlavakis… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A detailed investigation of the process of soot formation in ethylene-fueled laminar
counterflow diffusion flames is conducted using dedicated experiments and numerical …

A conservative method for numerical solution of the population balance equation, and application to soot formation

A Liu, S Rigopoulos - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to present a finite volume method for the discretisation of the
population balance equation with coagulation, growth and nucleation that combines:(a) …

[HTML][HTML] A computationally efficient approach for soot modeling with discrete sectional method and FGM chemistry

A Kalbhor, D Mira, J van Oijen - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel approach for the prediction of soot formation in combustion simulations within the
framework of discrete sectional method (DSM) based univariate soot model and Flamelet …