Natural-gas fueled spark-ignition (SI) and compression-ignition (CI) engine performance and emissions

T Korakianitis, AM Namasivayam… - Progress in energy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Natural gas is a fossil fuel that has been used and investigated extensively for use in spark-
ignition (SI) and compression-ignition (CI) engines. Compared with conventional gasoline …

Toward accommodating realistic fuel chemistry in large-scale computations

T Lu, CK Law - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2009 - Elsevier
The need and prospect of incorporating realistic fuel chemistry in large-scale simulations of
combustion phenomena and combustor performance are reviewed. The review first …

Small scales, many species and the manifold challenges of turbulent combustion

SB Pope - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2013 - Elsevier
A major goal of combustion research is to develop accurate, tractable, predictive models for
the phenomena occurring in combustion devices, which predominantly involve turbulent …

Skeletal mechanism generation for surrogate fuels using directed relation graph with error propagation and sensitivity analysis

KE Niemeyer, CJ Sung, MP Raju - Combustion and flame, 2010 - Elsevier
A novel implementation for the skeletal reduction of large detailed reaction mechanisms
using the directed relation graph with error propagation and sensitivity analysis (DRGEPSA) …

NOx pathways in lean partially premixed swirling H2‐air turbulent flame

T Capurso, D Laera, E Riber, B Cuenot - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
Today's climate and energy challenges are driving the use of decarbonised and renewable
alternative fuels in power generation and transportation. Hydrogen as a fuel is a good …

A fully automatic procedure for the analytical reduction of chemical kinetics mechanisms for computational fluid dynamics applications

Q Cazères, P Pepiot, E Riber, B Cuenot - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
A new software called ARCANE has been developed to address the broad need for
compact, computationally efficient chemical models for reactive flow simulations. Based on a …

Transforming data into knowledge—process informatics for combustion chemistry

M Frenklach - Proceedings of the combustion Institute, 2007 - Elsevier
The present frontier of combustion chemistry is the development of predictive reaction
models, namely, chemical kinetics models capable of accurate numerical predictions with …

Biodiesel, emulsified biodiesel and dimethyl ether as pilot fuels for natural gas fuelled engines

AM Namasivayam, T Korakianitis, RJ Crookes… - Applied Energy, 2010 - Elsevier
Dual-fuelling in compression–ignition (CI) engines is a mode of combustion where a small
pilot injection of high-cetane fuel (ie diesel) ignites a premixed high-octane fuel (ie methane) …

A reduced mechanism for high-temperature oxidation of biodiesel surrogates

Z Luo, T Lu, MJ Maciaszek, S Som, DE Longman - Energy & Fuels, 2010 - ACS Publications
A skeletal mechanism with 118 species and 837 reactions was developed from a detailed
LLNL mechanism that consisted of 3329 species and 10806 reactions for a tricomponent …

Modeling of high-speed, methane-air, turbulent combustion, Part II: Reduced methane oxidation chemistry

R Xu, SS Dammati, X Shi, ES Genter, Z Jozefik… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A reduced, 12-species reaction model (FFCMy-12) is proposed for modeling high-speed
turbulent methane flames at high Karlovitz numbers. The model was derived from an early …