Browsing by Author "Kukkadapu, Goutham"

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    • A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of isobutene oxidation 

      Zhou, Chong-Wen; Li, Yang; O'Connor, Eoin; Somers, Kieran P.; Thion, Sébastien; Keesee, Charles; Mathieu, Olivier; Petersen, Eric L.; DeVerter, Trent A.; Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Sung, Chih-Jen; Alrefae, Majed; Khaled, Fathi; Farooq, Aamir; Dirrenberger, Patricia; Glaude, Pierre-Alexandre; Battin-Leclerc, Frédérique; Santner, Jeffrey; Ju, Yiguang; Held, Timothy; Haas, Francis M.; Dryer, Frederick L.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier BV, 2016-05-01)

    • A comparative reactivity study of 1-alkene fuels from ethylene to 1-heptene 

      Dong, Shijun; Zhang, Kuiwen; Senecal, Peter K.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Wagnon, Scott W.; Barrett, Stephen; Lokachari, Nitin; Panigaphy, Snehasish; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-09-23)
      A comparative reactivity study of 1-alkene fuels from ethylene to 1-heptene has been performed using ignition delay time (IDT) measurements from both a high-pressure shock tube and a rapid compression machine, at an ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and improved kinetic modeling study on the pyrolysis and oxidation of propyne 

      Panigrahy, Snehasish; Liang, Jinhu; Nagaraja, Shashank S.; Zuo, Zhaohong; Kim, Gihun; Dong, Shijun; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Pitz, William J.; Vasu, Subith S.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-09-15)
      To improve our understanding of the combustion characteristics of propyne, new experimental data for ignition delay times (IDTs), pyrolysis speciation profiles and flame speed measurements are presented in this study. IDTs ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of 1-and 2-pentene 

      Dong, Shijun; Zhang, Kuiwen; Ninnemann, Erik M.; Najjar, Ahmed; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Baker, Jessica; Arafin, Farhan; Wang, Zhandong; Pitz, William J.; Vasu, Subith S.; Sarathy, S. Mani; Senecal, Peter K.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-10-15)
      1- and 2-pentene are components in gasoline and are also used as representative alkene components in gasoline surrogate fuels. Most of the available ignition delay time data in the literature for these fuels are limited ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of 1-hexene 

      Dong, Shijun; Aul, Christopher; Gregoire, Claire; Cooper, Sean P.; Mathieu, Olivier; Petersen, Eric L.; Rodriguez, Jose; Mauss, Fabian; Wagno, Scott W.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2021-06-13)
      It is important to understand the low-temperature chemistry of 1-hexene as it is used as a representative alkene component in gasoline surrogate fuels. Ignition delay times (IDTs) of 1-hexene measured in rapid compression ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of isobutene oxidation 

      Zhou, Chong-Wen; Li, Yang; O'Connor, Eoin; Somers, Kieran P.; Thion, Sébastien; Keesee, Charles; Mathieu, Olivier; Petersen, Eric L.; DeVerter, Trent A.; Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Sung, Chih-Jen; Alrefae, Majed; Khaled, Fathi; Farooq, Aamir; Dirrenberger, Patricia; Glaude, Pierre-Alexandre Glaude; Battin-Leclerc, Frédérique; Santner, Jeffrey; Ju, Yiguang; Held, Timothy; Haas, Francis M.; Dryer, Frederick L.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2016-03-17)
      Isobutene is an important intermediate in the pyrolysis and oxidation of higher-order branched alkanes, and it is also a component of commercial gasolines. To better understand its combustion characteristics, a series of ...

    • A comprehensive iso-octane combustion model with improved thermochemistry and chemical kinetics 

      Atef, Nour; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Mohamed, Samah Y.; Al Rashidi, Mariam J.; Al Rashidi, Mariam; Banyon, Colin; Mehl, Marco; Heufer, Karl Alexander; Nasir, Ehson F.; Alfazazi, A.; Das, Apurba K.; Westbrook, Charles K.; Pitz, William J.; Lu, Tianfeng; Farooq, Aamir; Sung, Chih-Jen; Curran, Henry J.; Sarathy, S. Mani (Elsevier, 2017-02-05)
      Iso-Octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane) is a primary reference fuel and an important component of gasoline fuels. Moreover, it is a key component used in surrogates to study the ignition and burning characteristics of gasoline ...

    • A detailed chemical kinetic modeling and experimental investigation of the low- and high-temperature chemistry of n-butylcyclohexane 

      Pitz, William J.; Liang, Jinhu; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Zhang, Kuiwen; Conroy, Christine; Bugler, John; Curran, Henry J. (Wiley, 2020-11-26)
      Chemical kinetic models of gasoline, jet, and diesel fuels and their mixtures with bioderived fuels are needed to assess fuel property effects on efficiency, emissions, and other performance metrics in internal combustion ...

    • Experimental and kinetic modeling study of 3-Methyl-2-butenol (Prenol) oxidation 

      Lokachari, Nitin; Wagnon, Scott W.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (American Chemical Society, 2021-08-19)
      Longer chain alcohols with 4–5 carbon atoms are attractive alternative fuels as they can be derived from biological sources and since their combustion leads to lower exhaust gas levels of NOx and soot compared to commercial ...

    • An experimental and kinetic modeling study of cyclopentane and dimethyl ether blends 

      Lokachari, Nitin; Wagnon, Scott W.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-11-13)
      Cyclopentane is a suitable naphthene, or cycloalkane, in a palette for multi-component gasoline surro- gate fuels due to its presence in market fuels and its relevance to alkyl substituted cyclopentanes also present. ...

    • An experimental and kinetic modeling study of the oxidation of hexane isomers: Developing consistent reaction rate rules for alkanes 

      Kuiwen, Zhang; Banyon, Colin; Burke, Ultan; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Wagnon, Scott W.; Mehl, Marco; Curran, Henry J.; Westbrook, Charles K.; Pitz, William J. (Elsevier, 2019-05-09)
      Alkanes are key components in gasoline, jet and diesel fuels and considerably influence the combustion behavior of these fuels because of their wide range of reactivity. An improved understanding of their combustion behavior ...

    • A hierarchical single-pulse shock tube pyrolysis study of C-2-C-6 1-alkenes 

      Nagaraja, Shashank S.; Liang, Jinhu; Dong, Shijun; Panigrahy, Snehasish; Sahu, Amrit; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Wagnon, Scott W.; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-06-27)
      A single-pulse shock tube study of the pyrolysis of 2% C-2 - C-6 1-alkenes is presented at 2 bar in the tem-perature range 900-1800 K in the current study. Reactant, intermediate and product species are obtained and ...

    • The influence of iso-butene kinetics on the reactivity of di-isobutylene and iso-octane 

      Lokachari, Nitin; Panigrahy, Snehasish; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Gihun, Kim; Vasu, Subith S.; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-09-06)
      The continuous development of a core C-0 - C-4 kinetic mechanism generally involves updating it using reliable kinetics and thermodynamics and may also involve the inclusion of missing reaction pathways to improve the ...

    • A pyrolysis study of allylic hydrocarbon fuels 

      Nagaraja, Shashank S.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Panigrahy, Snehasish; Liang, Jinhu; Lu, Haitao; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Wiley, 2020-08-17)
      The pyrolysis of selected C3 C5 allylic hydrocarbons has been studied using a single-pulse shock tube. A new single-pulse shock tube has been designed and constructed by recommissioning an existing conventional shock ...

    • A single pulse shock tube study of pentene isomer pyrolysis 

      Nagaraja, Shashank S.; Power, Jennifer; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Dong, Shijun; Wagnon, Scott W.; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-08-02)
      A single-pulse shock tube study of the four pentene isomers is carried out at 2¿±¿0.16¿bar and 900¿1600¿K. C1 to C6 species profiles were recorded using gas chromatography mass spectrometry analyses. The species are ...