The route by which gas-phase molecules in hydrocarbon flames form condensed-phase
carbonaceous nanoparticles (incipient soot) is reviewed. These products of incomplete …

Many practical soot-emitting combustion systems such as diesel and jet engines rely on
diffusion flames for efficient and reliable operation. Efforts to mitigate soot emissions from …

Probability density function (PDF) methods offer compelling advantages for modeling
chemically reacting turbulent flows. In particular, they provide an elegant and effective …

A detailed model of soot formation is proposed, which consists of a gas-phase kinetic model
for the pyrolysis and oxidation of selected hydrocarbon fuels and a kinetic mechanism of …

Mitigation of soot emissions from combustion devices is a global concern. For example,
recent EURO 6 regulations for vehicles have placed stringent limits on soot emissions. In …

In this work, a new statistical model for soot formation and growth is developed and
presented. The Hybrid Method of Moments (HMOM) seeks to combine the advantages of two …

Oxygenated fuels have been widely used in combustion engines to tailor fuel properties,
improve combustion performance and reduce harmful emissions such as soot particles …

The clustering of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules is investigated in the
context of soot particle inception and growth using an isotropic potential developed from the …

From the view point of combustion science, the fundamentals of particle formation in a flame
environment are discussed. The principles of converting a gas phase precursor dopant into …

Polydispersed particles in reactive flows is a wide subject area encompassing a range of
dispersed flows with particles, droplets or bubbles that are created, transported and possibly …