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The effectiveness and reducibility of the methane combustion kinetic mechanisms were examined for the TPOX process in a porous medium. To this end, TPOX was successfully simulated using ANSYS CHEMKIN-Pro through a reactor network model composed of perfectly stirred and honeycomb-monolith reactors. The efficacy of six chemical kinetic mechanisms was compared for the equivalence ratios (ERs) ranging from 2.4 to 2.6 with a constant thermal load of 1540 kW/m2. This comparison revealed that Konnov was the most successful mechanism in the prediction of the H2 and CO mole fractions. This mechanism along with the GRI-3.0 and USC-Mech 2.0 mechanisms were then reduced by the direct relation graph with... 

This study is on combustion modeling of gaseous hydrogen and cryogenic liquid oxygen at the subcritical condition for the well-known Mascotte laboratory combustor. The proposed strategy relies on the hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian framework in which the continuous phase is evaluated by Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and the quick discretization method. The dispersed phase of the combustion field is evaluated by the Discrete Phase Method (DPM). The Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) has been performed for combustion-turbulence interaction modeling. Effects of the turbulence model, chemical kinetic mechanism, equation of state, and inlet momentum jet flux are investigated in terms of... 

Lack of a direct method to control combustion timing is one of the main disadvantages of homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines. Fuel blending, in which two fuels with different auto-ignition characteristics are blended, can be used to control combustion timing. Utilizing different additives is another method for HCCI combustion control. The aim of this research is investigation on the effect of reformer gas addition on the availability terms in HCCI engines fueled with primary reference fuels (PRFs). A multi zone model (MZM) coupled with a semi detailed chemical kinetics mechanism is used for calculation of different terms of exergy analysis. Heat and mass transfer between...