libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.reactions.ReactionModel.Stoichiometry

@author: F. Ramognino <federico.ramognino@polimi.it> Last update: 12/06/2023

Classes

Stoichiometry

Reaction model of fuel combustion with infinitely fast chemistry

Module Contents

class libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.reactions.ReactionModel.Stoichiometry.Stoichiometry(reactants: libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.specie.Mixture.Mixture, *, oxidizer: libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.specie.Molecule.Molecule = database.chemistry.specie.Molecules.O2, dissociationModels: Iterable[libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.reactions.ReactionModel.DissociationModel.DissociationModel.DissociationModel] = None)[source]

Bases: libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.reactions.ReactionModel.ReactionModel.ReactionModel

Reaction model of fuel combustion with infinitely fast chemistry

TODO: Extend to handle a generic reaction set, where there might be more then one oxidizer

Molecule The oxidiser

reactants: (Mixture) The mixture of the reactants

products: (Mixture) The mixture of products of the reaction

reactions: (_Database) Database of oxidation reactions. Reference to database.chemistry.reactions

_ReactionType: str = 'StoichiometricReaction': The type for reactions to lookup for in the database

_productsPreDissociation: libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.specie.Mixture.Mixture: The combustion products before applying the dissociation models

dissociationModels: list[libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.reactions.ReactionModel.DissociationModel.DissociationModel.DissociationModel]: A list of the dissociation models to apply

property fuel: The sub-mixture of reactants with the fuels

property oxidizer: The oxidizer

classmethod fromDictionary(dictionary)[source]

Construct from dictionary.

Parameters:

dictionary (dict) –

The dictionary from which constructing, containing: reactants (Mixture): the mixture of reactants oxidiser (Molecule): the oxidizer dissociationModels (dict[str:dict]): Construction dictionaries for dissociation models in the form: {

<DissociationModelType>: construction dictionary for the specific model …

}

_oxidizer

_updateFuels()[source]: Update list of fuels

_update(reactants: libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.specie.specie.Mixture.Mixture = None, *, state: libICEpost.src.thermophysicalModels.thermoModels.ThermoState.ThermoState = None) → bool[source]

Method to update the products.

Parameters:

reactants (Mixture, optional) – Update mixture of reactants. Defaults to None.
state (ThermoState, optional) – Thermodynamic state to update the reaction model. (NOT USED)

Returns:

if something changed

Return type:

bool