Author: Ahmad Saylam
Document type: Preprint / Thesis / Technical Paper
Year: 2026
Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/19438123
The understanding and control of many combustion phenomena requires an interactive work between experiments and modelling. The presentation of the two coupled approaches is a prerequisite to demonstrate the complexity of the phenomena. This complexity often precludes from fully elucidating the details of the chemistry of hydrocarbon oxidations.
Such a failure has been shown by an attempt to improve the mechanism of oxidation of isooctane. Hundreds of species and thousands of reactions come into play during the oxidation of a hydrocarbon and they all must be included into the detailed mechanisms. The need for smaller mechanisms logically has led to devise a technique of reduction.
Predictive thermokinetic mechanisms have been built, reduced, and validated with new experimental data and data collected from previous work or published elsewhere. Laser diagnostic techniques have been used to measure soot particles and HAP inside a methane flame.
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Saylam, A. (2026). Modelling studies of the oxidation and autoignition of alkanes, aromatics, and their mixtures at high pressure between 600 and 1500 K. Reduction of detailed mechanisms. Measurement of soot formation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19438123