Monte Carlo modeling of nitric oxide formation based on quasi-classical trajectory calculations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1162-1170

  Boyd, Iain D ^a   Bose, Deepak ^b   Candler, Graham V ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000108604     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869479     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. D. A. Levin, G. V. Candler, R. J. Collins, P. W. Erdman, E. C. Zipf, P. Espy, and L. C. Howlett, "Comparison of theory and experiment for the bow shock ultraviolet rocket flight," J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer 7, 30 (1993).
2. P. W. Erdman, E. C. Zipf, P. Espy, L. C. Howlett, D. A. Levin, R. J. Collins, and G. V. Candler, "Measurements of ultraviolet radiation from a 5-km/sec bow shock," J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer 8, 441 (1994).
3. I. D. Boyd, G. V. Candler, and D. A. Levin, "Dissociation modeling in low density hypersonic flows of air," Phys. Fluids 7, 1757 (1995).
4. C. Borgnakke and P. S. Larsen, "Statistical collision model for Monte Carlo simulation of polyatomic gas mixture," J. Comput. Phys. 18, 405 (1975).
5. F. Bergemann and I. D. Boyd, "DSMC simulation of inelastic collisions using the Borgnakke-Larsen method extended to discrete distributions of vibrational energy," in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (AIAA, Washington, 1994), Vol. 158, p. 174.
6. I. D. Boyd, "Assessment of chemical nonequilibrium in rarefied hypersonic flow," AIAA Paper No. 90-0145, 1990.
7. G. A. Bird, "Monte Carlo simulation in an engineering context," in Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (AIAA, New York, 1981), p. 239.
8. B. L. Haas and I. D. Boyd, "Models for direct Monte Carlo simulation of coupled vibration-dissociation," Phys. Fluids A 5, 478 (1993).
9. I. D. Boyd, "Analysis of vibration-dissociation-recombination processes behind strong shock waves of nitrogen," Phys. Fluids A 4, 178 (1992).
10. 3A″ ground potential energy surface. III. Quantum dynamical study and comparison with quasiclassical and experimental results," J. Chem. Phys. (in press).
11. 3A′ potential energy surface," J. Chem. Phys. 104, 2825 (1996).
12. 2+O→NO+N reaction under thermodynamic nonequilibrium," J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer 10, 148 (1996).
13. 2→NO+O," J. Chem. Phys. 86, 6946 (1987).
14. g) atmospheric reaction on the 3A″ ground potential energy surface. I. Analytical potential energy surface and preliminary quasiclassical trajectory calculations," J. Chem. Phys. 97, 5542 (1992).
15. C. Park, J. T. Howe, R. L. Jaffe, and G. V. Candler, "Review of chemical-kinetic problems of future NASA missions, II: Mars entries," J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer 8, 9 (1994).
16. M. H. Bortner, "A review of rate constants of selected reactions of interest in re-entry flow fields in the atmosphere," National Bureau of Standards, NBS TN 484, 1969.
17. K. L. Wray and J. D, Teare, "Shock-Tube study of the kinetics of nitric oxide at high temperatures," J. Chem. Phys. 36, 2582 (1962).
18. C. T. Bowman, "Investigation of nitric oxide formation kinetics in combustion processes: The hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen reaction," Combust Sci. Technol. 3, 37 (1971).
19. J. B. Livesey, A. L. Roberts, and A. Williams, "The formation of oxides of nitrogen in some oxy-propane flames," Combust. Sci. Technol. 4, 9 (1971).
20. A. E. Hedin, "The atmosphere model in the region 90 to 2000 km," Adv. Space Res. 8, 9 (1988).
21. I. D. Boyd, "A threshold line dissociation model for the direct simulation Monte Carlo method," Phys. Fluids 8, 1293 (1996).
22. I. D. Boyd, "Conservative species weighting scheme for the direct simulation Monte Carlo method," J. Thermophys. Hrat Transfer 10, 579 (1996).