CHEMKIN-CFD for FLUENT Manual
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Information Resources
1.1.1 Contents of this Manual
1.1.2 Installation and Licensing Manual
1.1.3 Tutorials
Chapter 2: Getting Started with CHEMKIN-CFD
2.1 Enabling the CHEMKIN-CFD Module in FLUENT
2.2 Setting Initial Conditions for Combustion Problems
2.3 Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions Models and CHEMKIN- CFD
2.4 Controlling Parameters in the FLUENT Text User Interface
2.4.1 Advanced Parameters Used in Steady-state Solution Algorithm
2.4.2 Setting Up Monitor Cells for CHEMKIN-CFD
2.5 User Programming
2.6 Diagnostic Files and Error Messages
2.6.1 Error Messages Printed in the FLUENT Graphical User Interface
2.6.2 Diagnostic Messages in the KINetics-log.txt File
Chapter 3: Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
3.1 Provided, FLUENT-compatible Mechanisms
3.1.1 Methane and Ethane Combustion Mechanism
3.1.2 Propane Combustion Mechanism
3.1.3 Hydrogen Combustion Mechanism
3.2 Locating Other Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
Chapter A: Background Details for Working with Reaction Mechanisms
A.1 Thermodynamic Property Database
A.2 Gas-phase Kinetics Input
A.2.1 Element Data
A.2.2 Species Data
A.2.3 Thermodynamic Data (Optional)
A.2.4 Reaction Data
A.2.4.1 The REACTION line
A.2.4.2 Reaction Strings and Rate Coefficients
A.2.4.3 Auxiliary Reaction Data
A.2.4.3.1 Neutral Third Body Efficiency
A.2.4.3.2 Pressure Dependent Reaction Parameters
A.2.4.3.3 Chebyshev Polynomial Rate Expressions
A.2.4.3.4 Pressure Dependence Through Logarithmic Interpolation
A.2.4.3.5 Landau-Teller Reactions
A.2.4.3.6 Reverse Rate Parameters
A.2.4.3.7 Reaction Order Parameters
A.2.4.3.8 Reaction Units
A.2.4.3.9 Duplicate Reaction Descriptions
A.2.4.3.10 Optional User Rate Subroutine CKUPROG
A.2.4.4 Problems Having No Reactions
A.2.5 Error Checks
A.3 Surface Kinetics Input
A.3.1 Material Declaration
A.3.2 Site Data
A.3.3 Bulk Data
A.3.4 Thermodynamic Data
A.3.5 Surface Reaction Mechanism Description
A.3.5.1 The REACTION Line
A.3.5.2 Surface Reaction Data
A.3.5.3 Surface Reaction Auxiliary Data
A.3.5.3.1 Reverse Reaction Parameters
A.3.5.3.2 Duplicate Reactions
A.3.5.3.3 Sticking Coefficients
A.3.5.3.4 Motz-Wise Correction
A.3.5.3.5 Arbitrary Reaction Orders
A.3.5.3.6 Coverage Dependent Reactions
A.3.5.3.7 Unit Specifications for Reaction Parameters
A.3.5.3.8 Langmuir Hinshelwood and Eley-Rideal Reaction Parameters
A.3.5.3.9 Optional User Rate Subroutine SKUPROG
A.3.5.3.10 Summary of Surface Auxiliary Reaction Data
A.3.5.4 Unit Conversion for Pre-exponential Factor
A.3.6 Error Checks
A.3.7 Mechanisms with Multiple Materials
A.4 Transport Input
Chapter B: Theoretical Background
B.1 Gas-phase Reaction Rate Formulations
B.1.1 Arbitrary Reaction Order
B.1.2 Three-Body Reactions
B.1.3 Pressure-Dependent Reactions
B.1.3.1 Unimolecular/Recombination Fall-off Reactions
B.1.3.2 Chemically Activated Bimolecular Reactions
B.1.3.3 General Pressure Dependence Using Logarithmic Interpolation
B.1.3.4 Multiple-well Multiple-channel Reactions Using Chebyshev Polynomials
B.1.4 Landau-Teller Formulation of the Rate Expressions
B.2 Surface Reaction Rate Formulations
B.2.1 Development of a Surface Formalism
B.2.2 Surface Reaction Expressions and Equations
B.2.3 Concentration Units
B.2.4 Surface Reaction Rate Expressions
B.2.4.1 Non-integer Stoichiometric Coefficients
B.2.4.2 Arbitrary Reaction Order
B.2.4.3 Surface-Coverage Modification of Rate Expression
B.2.4.4 Sticking Coefficients
B.2.4.5 Langmuir-Hinshelwood and Eley-Rideal Reactions
Chapter C: Nomenclature
C.1 Latin Equation Symbols
C.2 Greek Equation Symbols
C.3 Subscript Equation Symbols
Index
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