We report on the development status of the NIST “Real Fuels” Detailed Chemical Kinetic Combustion Model Database. This unified Web site will provide the combustion community with a centralized source for detailed chemical kinetic models, along with supporting data and information. This site is currently in its developmental stage and NIST requests comments from the community to refine and impro...

Kinetic modeling of metabolic pathways has important applications in metabolic engineering, but significant challenges still remain. The difficulties faced vary from finding best-fit parameters in a highly multidimensional search space to incomplete parameter identifiability. To meet some of these challenges, an ensemble modeling method is developed for characterizing a subset of kinetic parame...

Nanosecond pulse discharge plasma imaging, coupled pulse energy measurements, and kinetic modeling are used to analyze the mechanism of energy coupling in high repetition rate, spatially uniform, nanosecond pulse discharges in air in plane-to-plane geometry. Under these conditions, coupled pulse energy scales nearly linearly with pressure (number density), with energy coupled per molecule being...

This review critically examines char conversion kinetics in oxidizing or reducing atmosphere. In kinetic analysis the devolatilization of biomass and the conversion of char are usually investigated by means of separate experiments, although some kinetic models are also available of biomass combustion. The large majority of the char conversion kinetics consists of a global reaction with activati...

Thermal decomposition of organic matter under inert atmospheric conditions, leading to the release of volatiles and formation of cha is called as pyrolysis. It is also a first step in the biomass gasification. To design of a suitable pyrolysis reactor, understanding of kinetic parameters is essential. In the proposed kinetic model of this study, biomass decomposition is represented as a decompo...

A detailed chemical kinetic model has been developed for ethane oxidation that is applicable over a wide range of temperatures and pressures. This model incorporates the results of recent ab initio studies of the important lowtemperature pathways of the C2H5 + O2 reaction as well as several C2H6 + RO2 abstraction reactions. These results change significantly the nature of the chain-branching re...

To develop and investigate detailed mathematical models of metabolic processes is one of the primary challenges in systems biology. However, despite considerable advance in the topological analysis of metabolic networks, kinetic modeling is still often severely hampered by inadequate knowledge of the enzyme-kinetic rate laws and their associated parameter values. Here we propose a method that a...

A kinetic gelation model has been developed that incorporates the kinetics of a living/ controlled radical polymerization. Specifically, the kinetics of an iniferter polymerization were implemented in the model to determine the effect of the kinetics on the polymer structure. In particular, the replacement of the termination step with a reversible termination was examined. The model predicts th...

Kinetic equations modeling the behavior of the velocity probability density function sPDFd in homogeneous anisotropic decaying turbulence are hypothesized and their implications for return-to-isotropy are investigated. Anisotropic turbulent decay is a parametrically simple but theoretically complex turbulent flow that is dominated by nonlinear interactions. The physical implications of the Bhat...

The reuse distance (LRU stack distance) is an essential metric for performance prediction and optimization of storage and CPU cache. Over the last four decades, there have been steady improvements in the algorithmic efficiency of reuse distance measurement. This progress is accelerating in recent years both in theory and practical implementation. In this paper, we present a kinetic model of LRU...