Many oxygenated hydrocarbon species formed during combustion, such as furans, are highly toxic and detrimental to human health and the environment. These species may also increase the hygroscopicity of soot and strongly influence the effects of soot on regional and global climate. However, large furans and associated oxygenated species have not previously been observed in flames, and their form...

This paper provides an overview of recent progress in our development of highfidelity simulation of turbulent combustion with detailed chemistry. In particular, two major accomplishments are presented and discussed: (a) As for the computational aspects, it was recognized that many existing techniques to treat inflow and outflow boundary conditions for compressible flow simulations suffered from...

Abstract Fully accounting for the climate impact of aviation requires a process-level understanding aircraft soot particle emissions on formation ice clouds. Assessing this with help global models remains elusive and direct observations are lacking. Here we use high-resolution cirrus column model to investigate how aircraft-emitted particles, released after crystals sublimate at end lifetime co...

The flame and soot structure, including soot primary particle nucleation, surface growth and oxidation properties, of 6 premixed and 20 diffusion flames were studied experimentally for various fuels, at temperatures of 1400-2350 K and at pressures of 13-811 kPa (0.1-8.0 atm). Measurements were made along the axes of flames with the reactants at normal temperature (300 K). The following properti...

Smoldering and flaming fires, which emit different proportions of organic (OC) and black carbon (BC, in the form of char and soot), have long been recognized in modern wildfire observations but never in a paleo-record, and little is known about their interactions with climate. Here we show that in the late glacial-early Holocene transition period, when the climate was moist, relatively high qua...

The hygroscopic growth and droplet activation of uncoated soot particles and such coated with succinic acid and sulfuric acid were investigated during the IN-11 campaign at the Aerosol Interaction and Dynamics in the Atmosphere (AIDA) facility. A GFG-1000 soot generator applying either nitrogen or argon as carrier gas and a miniCAST soot generator were utilized to generate soot particles. Diffe...

Effective temperatures of pulsed-laser-heated soot particles were derived from their thermal emission intensities using optical pyrometry in a laminar ethylene coflow diffusion flame. The present study concerns conditions of relatively low laser fluences under which soot particles are heated to temperatures below 3500 K to avoid complications of soot particle vaporization in both the experiment...

0010-2180/$ see front matter 2009 The Combust doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.11.009 * Corresponding author. Present address: CFD Rese AL 35805, United States. Fax: +1 256 726 4806. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R.S. Mehta), dch [email protected] (M.F. Modest). 1 Present address: Department of Mechanical Engine Merced, CA 95348, United States. A comprehensive model for luminous turbulent ...