in this paper, the performance of a natural gas hcci engine is studied through a thermodynamic model including detailed chemical kinetics. it is shown that as hydroxyl radical has important effects on natural gas combustion, it is possible to quantify soc with hydroxyl concentration variations. meanwhile the influence of using formaldehyde as an additive on the engine characteristics has been i...

In this paper the large eddy simulation (LES) and conditional moment closure (CMC) combustion model have been applied for modelling of auto-ignition of hydrogen jet issuing into a hot ambient co-flow. Most of the attention was devoted to modelling aspects of the conditional scalar dissipation rate which is a key quantity of the CMC model. Two models are compared with emphasis on differences in ...

Transported probability density function (PDF) methods have shown promise in modeling canonical flame configurations. More recently, they have been applied to simple engine configurations to demonstrate their feasibility in more practical applications, and to demonstrate the importance of accurate accounting for turbulence/chemistry interactions in IC engines. In this work we take PDF methods o...