Implementation of an advanced fixed sectional aerosol dynamics model with soot aggregate formation in a laminar methane/air coflow diffusion flame

Combustion Theory and Modelling

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-641

  Zhang, Q ^a   Guo, H ^b   Liu, F ^b   Smallwood, G J ^b   Thomson, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fixed sectional aerosol dynamics model; Laminar coflow diffusion flame; Numerical simulation; Parallel computation; Soot aggregate formation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AGGLOMERATION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; DUST; DYNAMICS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FLAME RESEARCH; FLAME SPRAYING; FLAMMABILITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUCLEATION; OXIDATION; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOOT; SPEED; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AEROSOL DYNAMICS; AXISYMMETRIC; COFLOW DIFFUSION FLAMES; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); DETAILED CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION FLAME (DF); DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION (D-D); EVOLUTION (CO); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAME TEMPERATURES; MASS DENSITIES; NUMBER DENSITIES; OXIDATION PROCESSES; PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION (PSZ); SECTIONAL MODEL; SOOT AGGREGATES; SOOT FORMATIONS; SOOT PARTICLES; SOOT VOLUME FRACTION (FV); SPECIES CONCENTRATIONS; SPEED UPS; SURFACE GROWTH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D);

AGGREGATES;

EID: 48249123195     PISSN: 13647830     EISSN: 17413559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13647830801966153     Document Type: Article

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