Building and Solving Accurate Combustion Chemistry Simulations

Abstract

The development of new fuels and combustion devices would be greatly accelerated if we could build and solve accurate predictive models of the combustion chemistry in these devices. This is the most important technical challenge facing the combustion community. Recent advances on several fronts suggest that this should soon be possible. Here we review some developments in automated mechanism construction, methods for estimating for the chemical parameters, numerical solution algorithms, and in procedures by which the entire combustion community can contribute to meeting this important technical challenge.