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JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE
卷 159, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2021.105866
关键词
Coagulation; Incipient soot; ReaxFF; Reactive molecular dynamics
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资金
- National Science Foundation of China [51761125012]
- National Research Foundation (NRF) , Singapore, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
This study investigated the coagulation process of two PAH clusters with diameter similar to 2 nm using reactive molecular dynamics simulations. The results showed that the coagulation efficiency decreases with increasing temperature, mainly due to the increased kinetic energy of atoms within the clusters at higher temperatures. Additionally, the introduction of surface sigma-radical site fraction could moderately improve the coagulation efficiency, suggesting a low efficiency of incipient soot nanoparticles with surface sigma-radicals in high temperature flame regions.
In this work, we studied the coagulation process of two PAH clusters with diameter similar to 2 nm using reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To describe the coagulation process quantitatively, the distance between the center of mass (COM) of the two PAH clusters, as well as the inter-cluster potential energy and kinetic energy of the COM of the clusters were calculated. Head-on coagulation efficiencies (eta) of two PAH clusters at typical flame temperatures where soot inception is most likely to occur, i. e. , 1500 K-2000 K, were determined based on hundreds of MD simulated trajectories. Our simulation results showed that eta decreases with increasing temperature, which is mainly due to the increased kinetic energy of atoms within the PAH clusters at higher temperature. In addition, introduction of surface sigma-radical site fraction in the range of 0.01 to 0.1 can only moderately improve eta by similar to 10% by forming carbon-carbon bonds between the two coagulating clusters, which suggests eta of incipient soot nanoparticles with surface sigma-radicals in high temperature flame regions is very low even if with reactive coagulation taken into consideration.
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