A numerical study of ignition and flame development characteristics in GCI combustion using large eddy simulations and chemical explosive mode analysis
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A numerical study of ignition and flame development characteristics in GCI combustion using large eddy simulations and chemical explosive mode analysis
This work investigates the ignition and flame development processes of low reactivity fuel combustion under compression ignition conditions based on the large eddy simulation approach. The chemical explosive mode analysis (CEMA) is employed to characterize the local combustion features, including gas-liquid fuel zone, auto-ignition, diffusion-assisted, extinction, cool flame and post-ignition zone, among which auto-ignition and post-ignition are found to play a key role in the overall heat release process. The local flame propagation modes in gasoline compression ignition (GCI) are determined by quantifying the relative magnitude of diffusion/chemistry at a representative progress variable in the pre-ignition zone. The results show that autoignition fronts and deflagration waves exist simultaneously in the ignition and intense high temperature heat release (HTHR) stages, but autoignition fronts dominate. In addition, the chemical kinetic processes of four heat release periods are analyzed. The heat release during the ignition period is found to be dominated by the reactions CH3+ H (+M) <=> CH4 (+M) and CH3CHO + H <=> CH2CHO + H2. The reaction CH2OH + OH <=> CH2O + H2O always plays an important role in the heat releases during the other three combustion stages including intense HTHR, moderate HTHR and post-combustion.
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