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Published June 2009 | public
Journal Article

Hybrid Method of Moments for modeling soot formation and growth

Abstract

In this work, a new statistical model for soot formation and growth is developed and presented. The Hybrid Method of Moments (HMOM) seeks to combine the advantages of two moment methods, the Method of Moments with Interpolative Closure (MOMIC) and the Direct Quadrature Method of Moments (DQMOM), in an accurate and consistent formulation. MOMIC is numerically simple and easy to implement but is unable to account for bimodal soot Number Density Functions (NDF). DQMOM is accurate but is numerically ill-posed and difficult to implement. HMOM combines the best of both two methods to capture bimodal NDF while retaining ease of implementation and numerical robustness. The new hybrid method is shown to predict mean quantities nearly as accurately as DQMOM and high-fidelity Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, a model for combining particle coalescence with particle aggregation is presented and shown to accurately reproduce experimental measurements in a variety of sooting flames.

Additional Information

Copyright © 2009 The Combustion Institute. Received 18 September 2008; revised 30 January 2009; accepted 31 January 2009. Available online 27 February 2009. The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP).

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