Autoignition and burning rates of fuel droplets under microgravity

This paper presents a mathematical model for the unsteady evaporation, ignition, and combustion of isolated fuel droplets under microgravity. The model consists of a large structured system of differential algebraic equations, where the numerical complexity is due both to the stiff nature of the kinetic mechanism and to the flame structure around the droplet. A very general, detailed kinetic scheme, consisting of ∼200 species and over 5000...