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C3 CONSORTIUM aims for soot solution

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  • 16AUTP09_03
Published September 01, 2016 by SAE International in United States
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A newly formed group of companies led by CFD specialists Convergent Science targets exhaust particulate reduction in the combustion chamber.

Predicting more accurately what happens in the complex chemical reactions between air and fuel when they are compressed and ignited in an IC engine's combustion chamber-and solving the challenge of exhaust particulates-may have taken a step forward with the creation of the Computational Chemistry Consortium (C3), driven by the auto industry's need to meet increasingly stringent global emissions regulations.

“Several of our existing clients asked if we could develop an open format fuel consortium that wasn't tied to any particular software and would allow them to run it in conjunction with their own programs, a bit like an open source format,” explained Eric Pomraning, Ph.D., Vice President of Convergent Science, Inc., a maker of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis toolsets based in Madison, WI. Its Converge numerical tool is used for combustion chamber simulations.