Kinetic Mechanisms Introduction for CFD

This is a short (basically 2-3 hour) seminar (given within a CFD course) introducing some concepts of kinetic mechanisms (methane/natural gas mechanisms are discussed), detailed and approximations, and some description of chemical structures pertaining to higher hydrocarbon mechanisms. Some of the goals of the lecture are:

1. Problematic of choosing a mechanism
2. Chemical structures of higher hydrocarbons
3. Low Temperature combustion phenomenon
4. Generation and Reduction of mechanisms
5. Introduction: Role of Chemical Kinetics: How does chemical kinetics fit into combustion research and in chemistry
6. Selecting a Mechanism: Using methane and natural gas mechanisms, the problematic of choosing a mechanism is examined. Several mechanisms from prominent groups are shown with literature references and websites.
7. Higher Hydrocarbons: The chemical structure of species within a typical hydrocarbon fuel like kerosene are examined. Chemical structure and the low temperature mechanism are also outlined.
8. Reducing Chemical Mechanisms and their generation (from the EcoEngines presentation).

IFP-School: Kinetics Course

This has the lectures on the course in combustion chemical kinetics being given for the IFP-School (Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs, Rueil-Malmaison, France)

The PDF's of the full course is:

1. Single Slide Per Page
2. Two Slides Per Page
3. YouTube playlist

The full course information within the Moodle framework is here (you can sign in as guest)