Soot Modeling Available in CONVERGE

Convergent Science announced that it is collaborating with Fabian Mauss of Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany, to integrate advanced soot models into the CONVERGE CFD software. According to the company, the advanced models will improve the accuracy of emissions predictions by incorporating detailed descriptions of the soot formation processes. For example, soot inception is modeled through the prediction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) formed from a complex set of chemical reactions.

"We are very pleased to integrate Professor Mauss' advanced soot models into CONVERGE," said P. Kelly Senecal, vice president at Convergent Science. "The models are a natural extension of our SAGE detailed chemistry solver which efficiently calculates large sets of chemical reactions. Our goal is to provide our users with the most predictive combustion and emissions models available. We believe that the combination of CONVERGE's industry-leading CFD technology and Professor Mauss' cutting edge models will deliver this level of accuracy."

CONVERGE is a CFD software that automates the meshing at runtime with an orthogonal Cartesian mesh, eliminating the need for a user defined mesh. CONVERGE is also equipped with extremely fast and efficient detailed chemistry, an extensive set of physical sub-models, a genetic algorithm optimization module, and fully automated parallelization.

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