“…Chemical kinetic models aid in the development of engines by predicting important ignition characteristics (such as ignition delay, energy release rate, and chemical species formation). For spark-ignition engines, knock occurrence, which limits the compression ratio and therefore the efficiency at which a spark-ignition can operate, has been investigated with the use of numerical modeling and chemical models [Liang, L., Reitz, R., Iyer, C., and Yi, 2007;Linse, Kleemann, & Hasse, 2014]. The relationship of soot and nitrogen oxide (NOx) formation with various conditions within a diesel engine such as temperature, pressure and flame lift-off length, as well as design parameters such as spray nozzle geometry has also been explored using chemical kinetics [Kong, Sun, & Rietz, 2007;Som, Ramirez, Longman, & Aggarwal, 2011].…”