Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
The Engine Research Center has also developed reaction mechanism of n-heptane to simulate diesel fuel chemistry. The method used for mechanism development isa combination of SENKIN, XSENKPLOT and Genetic Algorithm (see SAE 2004-01-0558). The mechanism can be used efficiently for multi-dimensional engine CFD modeling of diesel engines. The mechanism can be found in the following table.
- n-heptane mechanism (29 species and 52 reactions) (see SAE 2004-01-0558) and thermodynamic data file
The computational resources can be found at the following links.