A reduced-order methane-air combustion mechanism that satisfies the differential entropy inequality
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2018 Editura Academiei Romane. All Rights Reserved. This paper presents a new method for determining the Arrhenius parameters of a reduced chemical mechanism such that it satisfies the second law of thermodynamics. The strategy is to approximate the progress of each reaction in the reduced mechanism from the species production rates of a detailed mechanism by using a linear least squares method. A series of non-linear least squares curve fittings are then carried out to find the optimal Arrhenius parameters for each reaction. At this step, the molar rates of production are written such that they comply with a theorem that provides the sufficient conditions for satisfying the second law of thermodynamics. This methodology was used to modify the Arrhenius parameters for the Westbrook and Dryer two-step mechanism for methane combustion. The optimized mechanism showed good agreement with the detailed mechanism for species mole fractions and production rates of most major species. The optimized mechanisms produced no violations of the second law of thermodynamics.
