The shipping industry has paid unprecedented attention to reducing emissions and pollution
in recent years. In particular, the International Maritime Organization has enacted many …

Biodiesel use in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines has the
potential to improve engine performance and combustion characteristics, while at the same …

Depletion of fossil fuel resources and stringent emission mandates has spurred the search
for improved diesel engines performance and cleaner combustion. One of the best …

OpenSMOKE++ is a general framework for numerical simulations of reacting systems with
detailed kinetic mechanisms, including thousands of chemical species and reactions. The …

Over the last two decades, our understanding of soot formation has evolved from an
empirical, phenomenological description to an age of quantitative modeling for at least small …

Advanced low-temperature combustion concepts that rely on compression ignition have
placed new technological demands on the modeling of low-temperature oxidation in general …

There has been much recent progress in the area of surrogate fuels for diesel. In the last few
years, experiments and modeling have been performed on higher molecular weight …

There are some challenges about NO X emissions exhausted from diesel engines fueled
with biodiesel. Due to increasingly stringent emission regulations, the different methods …

Biofuels, such as bio‐ethanol, bio‐butanol, and biodiesel, are of increasing interest as
alternatives to petroleum‐based transportation fuels because they offer the long‐term …

The need and prospect of incorporating realistic fuel chemistry in large-scale simulations of
combustion phenomena and combustor performance are reviewed. The review first …