Kyle E. Niemeyer
School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University

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Abstract

Combustion simulations require detailed chemical kinetic models to predict fuel oxidation, heat release, and pollutant emissions. These models are typically validated using qualitative rather than quantitative comparisons with limited sets of experimental data. This work introduces PyTeCK, an open-source Python-based package for automatic testing of chemical kinetic models. Given a model of interest, PyTeCK automatically parses experimental datasets encoded in a YAML format, validates the self-consistency of each dataset, and performs simulations for each experimental data point. It then reports a quantitative metric of the model's performance, based on the discrepancy between experimental and simulated values and weighted by experimental variance. The initial version of PyTeCK supports shock tube and rapid compression machine experiments that measure autoignition delay.

Keywords

combustion, chemical kinetics, model validation

DOI

10.25080/Majora-629e541a-00c

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Copyright © 2016 Kyle E. Niemeyer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.