Ongoing progress in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and catalysis continues to
produce a diverse array of advanced biofuels with complex molecular structure and …

OpenSMOKE++ is a general framework for numerical simulations of reacting systems with
detailed kinetic mechanisms, including thousands of chemical species and reactions. The …

There is an increasing demand for kinetic models of surrogate components to predict the
combustion and emissions of real fuels. In this paper, a new surrogate fuel mechanism …

In recent years, the SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers
(SUNDIALS) has been redesigned to better enable the use of application-specific and third …

The fidelity of combustion simulations is strongly dependent on the accuracy of the
underlying thermochemical properties for the core combustion species that arise as …

The primary objectives of this work were to formulate, blend, and characterize a set of four
ultralow-sulfur diesel surrogate fuels in quantities sufficient to enable their study in single …

This work utilizes a rapid compression machine (RCM) to experimentally quantify
autoignition and preliminary heat release characteristics for blends of 0 to 30% ethanol by …

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent combustion is a research area becoming ever
more important and has been established as a powerful tool in combustion science to …

Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is widely used in advanced internal combustion engines to
reduce engine emissions as well as control combustion phasing. Among various species …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) can attenuate
knock propensity in spark ignition (SI) engines at naturally aspirated or lightly boosted …