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Efficient Implementation of Chemistry in Computational Combustion

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For hydrocarbon fuels, detailed chemical kinetics typically involve a large number of chemical species and reactions. In a high-fidelity combustion calculation, it is essential, though challenging, to incorporate sufficiently detailed chemical kinetics to enable reliable predictions of thermo-chemical quantities, especially for pollutants such as NO x and CO. In this paper, we review the recent work on efficient implementation of chemistry at Cornell, specifically: the invariant constrained equilibrium-edge pre-image curve dimension-reduction method for the reduced description of reactive flows; the transport-chemistry coupling in the reduced description; the computationally efficient operator-splitting schemes for reactive flows; and, recent developments in the storage/retrieval algorithm in situ adaptive tabulation.

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Pope, S.B., Ren, Z. Efficient Implementation of Chemistry in Computational Combustion. Flow Turbulence Combust 82, 437–453 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-008-9145-3

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