and renamed defaultSpecie as its mass fraction is derived from the sum of the mass fractions of all other species and it need not be inert but must be present everywhere, e.g. N2 in air/fuel combustion which can be involved in the production of NOx. The previous name inertSpecie in thermophysicalProperties is supported for backward compatibility.
Stiff chemistry solver validation test cases gri : GRI-Mech 3.0. CH4 combustion, 53 species, 325 reactions h2 : H2 combustion, 10 species, 27 reactions nc7h16 : n-Heptane combustion, 544 species, 2446 reactions ic8h18 : iso-Octane combustion, 874 species, 3796 reactions Results interpreted in 'validation' sub-directory, where OpenFOAM results are compared against those predicted by CHEMKIN II. Overall the best performing ODE solver is seulex followed closely by rodas23.