On the universality of ignition delay times of distillate fuels at high temperatures: A statistical approach

Ignition delay times (IDTs) of fuels provide very important macro-information about the fuel reactivity and autoignition behavior. IDTs constitute a key metric for fuel/engine co-optimization studies. Chemical kinetic modeling pursuits rely on experimental IDTs as their primary validation target. There have been extensive works in literature on measuring, calculating, modeling and correlating IDTs of a wide range of hydrocarbons, oxygenates,...