Reaction-progress variables initial/inlet conditions

The dimensionless vector of reaction-progress variables Y is then defined to be null in the initial and inlet conditions, and obeys... 

Using the same inlet/initial conditions as were employed for the one-step reaction, this reaction system can be written in terms of two reaction-progress variables (Fi, Y2) and the mixture fraction f. A linear relationship between c and (co, Y, f) can be derived starting from (5.162) with y = Y2 = A0B0/(A0 + B0) ... 

Unlike for the mixture fraction, the initial and inlet conditions for the mean and variance of Y will be zero. Thus, the chemical source term will be responsible for the generation of non-zero values of the mean and variance of the reaction-progress variable inside the reactor. Appealing again to the assumption of independence, the mean reaction-progress variable is given by... 

Note that the reaction-progress vector in the first column is non-zero. Thus, as we suspected, the mixture-fraction basis is not a linear-mixture basis. The same conclusion will be drawn for all other mixture-fraction bases found starting from (5.118). For these initial and inlet conditions, a two-component mixture-fraction vector can be found however, it is of no practical interest since the number of conserved-variable scalars is equal to Nq,m = 1 (k e 0, 1, 2). In conclusion, although the mixture fraction can be defined for the... 

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