Numerical Modeling of Pollutant Emissions with Detailed Kinetics: from Ideal Reactors to Flames

IP3. This works aims to present the activity of the research group in modeling reacting systems with hundreds of species and thousands of reactions as those typical of combustion and of pollutant emission formation, in particular. Aliphatic species up to 16 carbon atoms, aromatics up to 4 rings are all included in a mechanism of about 500 species and 15000 reactions able to simultaneously predict the formation of the main pollutants. The use of such a large mechanism requires efficient and robust numerical tools for the simulation. Some homemade codes for modeling ideal reactors, laminar flames and for post-processing CDF computations have shown effective in developing, validating and applying large kinetic mechanisms.