# A species-clustered ODE solver for large-scale chemical kinetics using detailed mechanisms

Source: [A species-clustered ODE solver for large-scale chemical kinetics using detailed mechanisms](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa39a51e209131ce8c4387>)

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Authors: Jian-Hang Wang, Shucheng Pan, Xiangyu Y. Hu, Nikolaus A. Adams

Published: 2018-05-08T13:50:35.000Z

## Abstract

In this study, a species-clustered ordinary differential equations (ODE) solver for chemical kinetics with large detailed mechanisms based on operator-splitting is presented. The ODE system is split into clusters of species by using graph partition methods which has been intensively studied in areas of model reduction, parameterization and coarse-graining, etc. , such as diffusion maps based on the concept of Markov random walk. Definition of the weight (similarity) matrix is application-driven and according to chemical kinetics. Each cluster of species is then integrated by VODE, an implicit solver which is intractable and costly for large systems of many species and reactions. Expected speedup in computational efficiency is observed by numerical experiments on three zero-dimensional (0D) auto-ignition problems, considering the detailed hydrocarbon/air combustion mechanisms in varying scales, from 53 species with 325 reactions of methane to 2115 species with 8157 reactions of n-hexadecane.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03022>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.03022.pdf>)