A high-temperature chemical kinetic model for primary reference fuels

A chemical kinetic mechanism has been developed to describe the high‐temperature oxidation and pyrolysis of n ‐heptane, iso ‐octane, and their mixtures. An approach previously developed by this laboratory was used here to partially reduce the mechanism while maintaining a desired level of detailed reaction information. The relevant mechanism involves 107 species undergoing 723 reactions and has been validated against an extensive set of...