Facts and alternative facts in chemical kinetics: remarks about the kinetic use of activities, termolecular processes, and linearization techniques

G Lente - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Activities should not be used instead of concentrations in a rate equation.•
Termolecular elementary steps must not be dismissed without quantitative …

Yet another kinetic mechanism for hydrogen combustion

AA Konnov - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent suggestion by Burke and Klippenstein (2017) that chemically termolecular reactions
H+ O 2+ R may significantly affect kinetic pathways under common combustion situations …

Species and thermal radiation on micropolar hydromagnetic dusty fluid flow across a paraboloid revolution

M Gnaneswara Reddy, M Ferdows - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2021 - Springer
Hydromagnetic flow of energy and species transfer behaviour of micropolar dusty fluid
across a paraboloid revolution has been investigated. Heat and mass transfer phenomena …

Study on soot nucleation and growth from PAHs and some reactive species at flame temperatures by ReaxFF molecular dynamics

H Yuan, W Kong, F Liu, D Chen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The transformations from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to polymers and finally to
young soot were simulated under different initial conditions at flame temperatures using …

Recent ReaxFF MD studies on pyrolysis and combustion mechanisms of aviation/aerospace fuels and energetic additives

M Chen, W Li, H Zhang, M Liu, J Zhang, X Li… - Energy Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Development of aviation and aerospace fuels requires deep insight into the pyrolysis and
combustion mechanisms. However, rapid and complex reactions during fuel combustion …

Investigation of hydrogen oxidation in supercritical H2O/CO2 mixtures using ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulation

G Li, Y Lu, S Qi - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrogen oxidation kinetics in supercritical H 2 O/CO 2 mixtures is a fundamental topic in
supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) technology. A series of reactive molecular dynamics …

Recent progress and prospects of hydrogen combustion chemistry in the gas phase

G Li, M Niu, J Jian, Y Lu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is emerging as a clean and renewable energy source indispensable to the
realization of a carbon neutral society. Inspired by the prospect of sustainable and carbon …

[HTML][HTML] General application of Tolman's concept of activation energy

H Rafatijo, DL Thompson - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present a generalization of Tolman's concept of activation energy applicable to thermal
and non-thermal reactions in molecular dynamics simulations of reactions in bulk gases. To …

Identifying collisions of various molecularities in molecular dynamics simulations

H Rafatijo, M Monge-Palacios… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a method based on kinetic molecular theory that identifies reactions of various
molecularities in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of bulk gases. The method allows …

Ab initio and transition state theory study of the OH+ HO 2→ H 2 O+ O 2 (3 Σ g−)/O 2 (1 Δ g) reactions: yield and role of O 2 (1 Δ g) in H 2 O 2 decomposition and in …

M Monge-Palacios, SM Sarathy - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Reactions of hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2) are important for governing the
reactivity of combustion systems. We performed post-CCSD (T) ab initio calculations at the …