Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for Premixed Methane-Air Flames

Abstract

Methane-air flames have served as the first example for the development of a strategy to systematically reduce kinetic mechanisms. Premixed methane-air flames were first considered in [5.1] and [5.2], methane-air diffusion flames in [5.3]. At last, an entire book, from which further references may be taken, was devoted to the subject of ``Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms and Asymptotic Approximations for Methane-Air Flames'' [5.4]. The idea there was to use a relatively short kinetic mechanism containing only 25 reactions of the C1-chain, and to analyse not only different approximations for reduced mechanisms of methane-air flames, but asymptotic formulations as well.