Dark Zones of Solid Propellant Flames: Critical Assessment and Quantitative Modeling of Experimental Datasets With Analysis of Chemical Pathways and Sensitivities

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Chemical Kinetics Mechanism Reduction Based on Principal Component Analysis: Development and Testing of Some New Implementations

“…The development of system-specific gas-phase finite-rate chemical kinetics mechanisms is a significant part of these efforts (Anderson et al, 2010;Chen and McQuaid, 2007;Chen and McQuaid, 2011;Chen and McQuaid, 2012;Kotlar, 2010;McQuaid et al, 2011;McQuaid et al, 2012). Built on a foundation laid by prior ARL efforts to model the ignition and combustion of gun propellants (see Anderson et al [2011] and references therein), the Army's support for mechanism development has been based on the demonstrated ability of such mechanisms to improve the predictive power of the CFD models.…”