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Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Reduced Order Chemical Kinetic

Modeling for Hydrogen and Ethylene Fuels in High Temperature Applications.

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Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Reduced Order Chemical Kinetic

Modeling for Hydrogen and Ethylene Fuels in High Temperature
Applications.

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Raoul Mazumdar , Hideaki Ogawa , Adrian Pudsey

Abstract

In the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), reacting fluids in ramjets, scramjets and other
high temperature applications generally require significant computational resources. The chemical
mechanism describing the chemistry must be resolved across the entire simulating domain, thereby
incurring increased numerical demands. This numerical requirement further scales upward with the
size of the molecular weight of the fuel, as the fuel mechanism increases in size to accommodate
other intermediate chemical species. These mechanisms are thereby numerically stiff in nature and
require some form of treatment prior to running in CFD for practical simulations. One particular
method that has grown in prominence are artificial neural networks (ANNs), which have been used as
a tool for developing reduced order models for a variety of engineering systems. A well trained model
can extract correlations out of a complex system and make accurate predictions at a significantly
reduced computational cost. In this body for work, ANNs have been successfully fitted to a hydrogen
and ethylene mechanism. Whereby the ANN model uses a three layer configuration of sigmoid and
softmax activation functions. The subsequent model can predict the fuel species evolution at a fixed
time step for a given pressure and temperature. This research makes the crucial step in bridging the
knowledge gap with respect to scaling ANNs to accommodate larger fuels such as ethylene.
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Keywords: Hydrogen, Ethylene, High-Temperature, Scramjets, Reduced Order

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School of Engineering, RMIT University, Victoria, Australia, raoul.mazumdar@student.rmit.edu.au*
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Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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