Research Papers

Y. Tao, R. Xu, K. Wang, J. Shao, S. E. Johnson, A. Movaghar, X. Han, J.-W. Park, T. Lu, K. Brezinsky, F. N. Egolfopoulos, D. F. Davidson, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman, H. Wang. (2018), “A Physics-based approach to modeling real-fuel combustion chemistry - III. Reaction kinetic model of JP10”, accepted, Combustion and Flame.

K Brezinsky, F. N. Egolfopoulos, D. F. Davidson, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman, H. Wang, R. Xu, K. Wang, S. Banerjee, J. Shao, T. Parise, Y. Zhu, S. Wang, A. Movaghar, D. J. Lee, R. Zhao, X. Han, Y. Gao, T. Lu, K, “A Physics-based approach to modeling real-fuel combustion chemistry - II. Reaction kinetic models of jet and rocket fuels”, Combustion and Flame, 193, 520-537; (2018)

X. Han, M. Liszka, R. Xu, K. Brezinsky, H. Wang. (2018), “A high pressure shock tube study of the pyrolysis of real jet fuel Jet A”, Proc. Combust. Inst. 37.

V. Samu, T. Varga, K. Brezinsky, T. Turanyi, “Investigation of ethane pyrolysis and oxidation at high pressures using global optimization based on shock tube data”, Proc. Combust. Inst. 36, 691-698, 2016.

Fridlyand, A., Goldsborough, S. S., Brezinsky, K., Merchant S. S. &, Green W. H., "Influence of the Double Bond Position on the Oxidation of Decene Isomers at High Pressures and Temperatures". Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35 (2015) 333–340.

A. Fridlyand, S.S. Goldsborough, K. Brezinsky, “Chemical Kinetic Influences of Alkyl Chain Structure on the High Pressure and Temperature Oxidation of a Representative Unsaturated Biodiesel: Methyl Nonenoate”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 119 (28) 7559-7577, 2015

S. Mosbach, J.H. Hong, G.P.E Brownbridge, M. Kraft, S. Gudiyella,  K. Brezinsky, “Bayesian Error Propagation for a Kinetic Model of n-Propylbenzene Oxidation in a Shock Tube”, Int. J. Chem. Kin. 46(7), 289-404 2014.

Fridlyand, A., Lynch, P. T., Tranter, R. S., & Brezinsky, K. "Single pulse shock tube study of allyl radical recombination". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117(23), 4762-4776. (2013).

Fridlyand, A., Brezinsky, K., & Mandelbaum, A. "N-Heptane Pyrolysis and Oxidation in Ethylene–Methane and Iso-Octane Mixtures". Journal of Propulsion and Power, 29(3), 732-743. (2013).

S. Gudiyella and K. Brezinsky, “High Pressure Study of n-Propylbenzene Pyrolysis”.Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 34 (2013) 1767–1774.

S. Gudiyella and K. Brezinsky, “High Pressure Study of n-Propylbenzene Oxidation”, Combustion and Flame, 159 (2012) 940-958.

T. Malewicki, S. Gudiyella, K. Brezinsky, “Experimental and modeling study on the oxidation of Jet A and the 2nd generation surrogate fuel mixture”, Combust. Flame 160 (1) (2012) 17-30.

T. Malewicki, K. Brezinsky, “Experimental and Modeling Study on the Pyrolysis and Oxidation of n-Decane and n-Dodecane”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 34 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.156.

T. Malewicki, A. Comandini, K. Brezinsky, “Experimental and Modeling Study on the Pyrolysis and Oxidation of Iso-Octane”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 34 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031.

A. Comandini, T. Malewicki, K. Brezinsky, “Chemistry of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Formation from Phenyl Radical Pyrolysis and Reaction of Phenyl and Acetylene”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116 (10) (2012) 2409–2434

A. Comandini, T. Malewicki, K. Brezinsky, “Online and Offline Experimental Techniques for PAHs Recovery and Measurement”, Review of Scientific Instruments 83 (3) (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3692748.

S. Dooley, S.H. Won, J. Heyne, T.I. Farouk, Y. Ju, F.L. Dryer, K. Kumar, X. Hui, C.-J. Sung, H. Wang, M.A. Oehlschlaeger, V. Iyer, S. Iyer, T.A. Litzinger, R.J. Santoro, T. Malewicki, K. Brezinsky, “The experimental evaluation of a methodology for surrogate fuel formulation to emulate gas phase combustion kinetic phenomena”, Combustion and Flame 159 (4) (2012) 1444-1466.

S. Gudiyella, T. Malewicki, A. Comandini and K. Brezinsky, “High Pressure Study of m-Xylene Oxidation”, Combustion and Flame, 158 (2011) 687-704.

A. Comandini, K. Brezinsky: “Theoretical Study of the Formation of Naphthalene from the Radical/π-Bond Addition between Single-Ring Aromatic Hydrocarbons”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115, Issue 22, 5547-5559, (2011)

A. Comandini, K. Brezinsky: “Formation of PAH’s in the Pyrolytic Reactions of the Phenyl Radical with Acetylene”, 7th US National Technical Meeting of the Combustion Institute, 2011

S. Garner, T. Dubois, N.Chaumeix, P. Dagaut, K. Brezinsky, "Biologically Derived Diesel Fuel and NO Formation: Part 2, Model Development and Extended Validation", Combustion and Flame 158 (2011) 2302–2313.

S.Garner, K. Brezinsky, "Biologically Derived Diesel Fuel and NO Formation: An experimental and chemical kinetic study, Part 1" , Combustion and Flame 158 (2011) 2289–2301.

S. Garner, R. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Brezinsky, "The High-pressure Pyrolysis of saturated and unsaturated C₇ hydrocarbons". Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2009), 32, 461-467.

B. Culbertson, R. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Brezinsky, "Elevated Pressure Thermal Experiments and Modeling Studies on the Water-Gas Shift Reaction," Journal of Propulsion and Power, 24 (5) (2008) 1085-1092.

Ashwin Raman, Raghu Sivaramakrishnan, Kenneth Brezinsky, "Pyrolysis of Diacetylene at High Pressures - Experimental and Modeling Study", 5th US Combustion Meeting 2007,Volume 4, 2007, Pages 2383-2389

R. Sivaramakrishnan, A. Comandini, R. S. Tranter, K. Brezinsky, S.G. Davis, H. Wang:“Combustion of CO/H2 Mixtures at High Pressure”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 31, Issue 1, 429-437, 2007.

Weiyong Tang and Kenneth Brezinsky, "Rigorous Chemical Kinetic Simulations behind Reflected Shock Waves", submitted to Int. J. Chem. Kin, Volume 38, Issue 2 February 2006, Pages 75-97.

Weiyong Tang, Robert S. Tranter and Kenneth Brezinsky, "An Optimized Semi-Detailed Sub-mechanism of Benzene formation from Propargyl Recombination", Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, 2006, 110 (6), pp 2165–2175.

Sivaramakrishnan, R., Vasudevan, H., Tranter, R. S. and Brezinsky, K., "A Shock Tube Study of the High Pressure Thermal Decomposition of Benzene"Combustion Science and Technology, Volume 178, 2006 - Issue 1-3.

Weiyong Tang, Robert S. Tranter and Kenneth Brezinsky, "Isomeric Product Distributions from  the Self-Reaction of Propargyl Radicals", J. Phys. Chem. A, 2005, 109 (27), pp 6056–6065.

Sivaramakrishnan, R., Tranter, R. S. and Brezinsky, K., "A High Pressure Model for the Oxidation of Toluene", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 30 (2005) 1165–1173.

Weiyong Tang, Linbin Zhang, Andreas A. Linninger, Robert S. Tranter and Kenneth Brezinsky, "Solving Kinetic Inversion Problems via a Physical Trust Region Gauss-Newton (PGN) Method", Ind. Engr. Chem. Res., 2005, 44, 3626-3637.

R. S. Tranter, A. Raman, R. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Brezinsky, "Ethane oxidation and Pyrolysis from 5 bar to 1000 bar: Experiments and simulation", International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2005, 37, 306 - 331.

Sivaramakrishnan, R., Tranter, R. S. and Brezinsky, K., Ring Conserved Isodesmic Reactions: A New Method for Estimating Heats of Formation for Aromatics and PAHs, J. Phy. Chem. A, 2005, 109 (8), pp 1621–1628 

Tranter, R. S., Raman, A, Sivaramakrishnan, R. and Brezinsky, K., Ethane Oxidation and Pyrolysis from 5 bar to 1000 bar: Experiments and Simulation,  International Journal of Chemical Kinetics,  Volume 37, Issue 5, 2005.

Sivaramakrishnan, R., Tranter, R. S. and Brezinsky, K., "High Pressure, High Temperature Oxidation of Toluene", Combustion and Flame 139 (2004) 340–350.

Ken B. Anderson, Robert S. Tranter, Weiyong Tang, Kenneth Brezinsky and Lawrence B. Harding, "Speciation of CeHg Isomers by Gas Chromatography-Matrix Isolation Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy-Mass Spectrometry", J. Phys. Chem. A 2004, 108, 3403.

Robert S. Tranter, Weiyong Tang, Ken B. Anderson and Kenneth Brezinsky, "Shock Tube Study of Thermal Rearrangement of 1,5-hexadiyne over Wide Temperature and Pressure Regime", J. Phys. Chem. A 2004,108, 3406.

Tranter, R. S., Sivaramakrishnan, R., Allendorf, M. D. and Brezinsky, K., "High Pressure, High Temperature Shock Tube Studies of Ethane Pyrolysis and Oxidation", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 4, 2001-2010, 2002.

R. S. Tranter, H. Ramamoorthy, A. Raman, K. Brezinsky and M. D. Allendorf, "High-Pressure Single-Pulse Shock Tube Investigation of Rich and Stoichiometric Ethane Oxidation",Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 29, 2002.

Tranter, R.S., Sivaramakrishnan, R., Srinivasan, N. K. and Brezinsky K.,"Calibration of reaction temperatures in a very high pressure shock tube using chemical thermometers", International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 33,722-731, 2001.