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Autoignition of an n-heptane plume in a turbulent coflow of heated air has been studied using the conditional moment closure (CMC) method with a second-order closure for the conditional chemical source term. Two different methodologies have been considered: (i) the Taylor expansion method, in which the second order correction was based on the solution of the full covariance matrix for the 31 reactive species in the chemical mechanism and hence was not limited to a few selected reactions, and (ii) the conditional PDF method, in which only the temperature conditional variance equation has been solved and its PDF assumed to be a β-function. The results compare favorably with experiment in terms of autoignition location. The structure of the reaction zone in mixture fraction space has been explored. The relative performance of the two methodologies is discussed.
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De Paola, G., Kim, I.S. & Mastorakos, E. Second-Order Conditional Moment Closure Simulations of Autoignition of an n-heptane Plume in a Turbulent Coflow of Heated Air. Flow Turbulence Combust 82, 455–475 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-008-9183-x
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