Rapid compression machines (RCMs) are widely used to acquire experimental insights into
fuel autoignition and pollutant formation chemistry, especially at conditions relevant to …

Rapid compression machines (RCMs) are used to simulate a single compression stroke of
an internal combustion engine without some of the complicated swirl bowl geometry, cycle …

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

With the growing air transport demand and concerns about its environmental impacts,
alternative jet fuels derived from non-conventional sources have become an important …

Coal, still used to generate more than half of the electric power in the US, will likely be part of
any future global energy plan. But this finite resource is also responsible for 80 percent of …

The production of alcohol fuels from bioderived feedstocks and the performance of next
generation stratified low temperature combustion (LTC) modes for internal combustion …

Dimethyl ether (DME) autoignition at elevated pressures and relatively low temperatures is
experimentally investigated using a rapid compression machine (RCM). DME/O2/N2 …

An experimental and kinetic modeling study of the influence of NO x (ie NO 2, NO and N 2 O)
addition on the ignition behavior of methane/'air'mixtures is performed. Ignition delay time …

The chemical species composition of a vitiated oxidizer stream can significantly affect the
combustion processes that occur in many propulsion and power generation systems …

New multipurpose skeletal and reduced chemical-kinetic mechanisms for ethanol
combustion are developed, along the same philosophical lines followed in our previous …