Chemical source term reaction coefficient matrix

In this section, we first introduce the standard form of the chemical source term for both elementary and non-elementary reactions. We then show how to transform the composition vector into reacting and conserved vectors based on the form of the reaction coefficient matrix. We conclude by looking at how the chemical source term is affected by Reynolds averaging, and define the chemical time scales based on the Jacobian of the chemical source term. 

In Section 5.1, we have seen (Fig. 5.2) that the molar concentration vector c can be transformed using the SVD of the reaction coefficient matrix T into a vector c that has Nr reacting components cr and N conserved components cc.35 In the limit of equilibrium chemistry, the behavior of the Nr reacting scalars will be dominated by the transformed chemical source term S. 36 On the other hand, the behavior of the N conserved scalars will depend on the turbulent flow field and the inlet and initial conditions for the flow domain. However, they will be independent of the chemical reactions, which greatly simplifies the mathematical description. 

Chemical reactions for which the rank of the reaction coefficient matrix T is equal to the number of reaction rate functions R, (i. e 1,..., I) (i.e., Nr = I), can be expressed in terms of / reaction-progress variables Y, (i. e 1,...,/), in addition to the mixture-fraction vector . For these reactions, the chemical source terms for the reaction-progress variables can be found without resorting to SVD of T. Thus, in this sense, such chemical reactions are simple compared with the general case presented in Section 5.1. 

The left-hand side is the accumulation term in moles per second of component i, and the right-hand side is the source term due to chemical reaction also in moles per second, which includes all reactions j that consume or produce component i, and the corresponding stoichiometric coefficients are represented in matrix form as V,j with a positive sign for products and a negative sign for reactants. This molar... 

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