The Computational Chemistry Consortium (C3), led by Convergent Science in collaboration with leading universities and national laboratories, has released two reduced chemical mechanisms aimed at simplifying combustion simulations for alternative fuels. Named C3MechLite and C3MechCore, these mechanisms define the chemical species and reaction steps needed to mathematically model how fuels burn, making them ready to use directly in three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations.
They cover a range of zero-carbon and low-carbon fuels including hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, ethanol, and natural gas. Both mechanisms are freely available on the C3 website and their formulation has been published in the journal Combustion and Flame.
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