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Flame propagation and ignition in hydrocarbon-air mixtures up to octane

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Numerical Simulation of Combustion Phenomena

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Abstract

An existing mechanism describing high temperature (T >1200 K) ignition and flame propagation processes in hydrocarbon-air mixtures up to C4-hydrocarbons /1,2/ has been extended to be able (1) to describe ignition and combustion of higher hydrocarbons up to e.g. octane, and (2) to describe auto-ignition processes (relevant for engine knock) at low temperatures (T<1200 K): (1) The description of the combustion of higher hydrocarbons is possible by dividing the reaction mechanism into one part containing the rate-limiting steps in detail (i.e. H2-O2 and C, to C4 chemistry and initial hydrocarbon attack) and another part containing global formulations of reactions not rate-determining /3/ (i.e. radical pyrolysis forming C1 to C4 radicals). Numerical simulations are carried out with an implicit finite-difference method /1/ and compared with flame propagation data. (2) The description of low temperature combustion must include the complete chemistry of the hydroperoxide radical. Numerical simulations are carried out with two differential-algebraic solvers /4,5/ and compared with auto-ignition data from shock tubes and engines.

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Warnatz, J. (1985). Flame propagation and ignition in hydrocarbon-air mixtures up to octane. In: Glowinski, R., Larrouturou, B., Temam, R. (eds) Numerical Simulation of Combustion Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 241. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0008676

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