Reaction Mechanisms

Only one of the mechanisms used for hydrocarbon oxidation could be used for ammonia oxidation without modification, [Miller and Bowman (1989)]. Unfortunately, it did not perform as well as other ammonia mechanisms not capable of hydrocarbon modeling (e.g. [Miller et al. (1983)]). The mechanism of [Fujii et al. (1981)] has been tested against shock tube data already, so it was combined with the [Miller and Bowman (1989)] mechanism. This mechanism performed as well as the [Miller et al. (1983)] mechanism at ammonia oxidation and as well as the [Miller and Bowman (1989)] mechanism at hydrocarbon combustion.