Mechanism name: Z153
Zettervall, N., & Nilsson, E. J. (2025). A Compact Chemical Kinetic Mechanism for Heavy Fuel Surrogates with n-, iso- and cyclo-Alkanes, and Aromatic Compounds. ACS Omega.
Compact reaction mechanism for n-, iso- and cyclo-alkanes, and aromatic compounds. Species: n-C10H22, n-C12H26, i-C8H18, i-C12H26, decalin (C10H18), trimethylbenzene (C9H12) and methylnapthalene (C10H7CH3). Low temperature kinetics is included for all species.
Use the mechanism to simulate any number of the seven fuel species, in any mixture combination. The mechanism is completely modular so all fuels and fuel breakdown blocks not needed can be removed to minimize the computational cost. If for example i-C8H18 is not needed all associated C8 species and reactions can be removed.
Two examples: if only n-C12H26 is to be modelled the mechanism is reduced to 31 species and 79 reactions. If a four component Jet A surrogate containing n-C12H26, i-C12H26, decalin and trimethylbenzene is used (as exemplified in the referenced article) the mechanism instead includes 51 species and 126 reactions.