[wenxu]

Hello, all foamers.
Nice day,isn't it?

In the filed of coal combustion,one of the most popular method to reduce the multi-species pyrolysis process of the particles is to approximate the volatiles as a single postulate substance: CxHyOz。Then how the thermophysical properties (specific heat, enthalpy, entropy, viscosity and thermal conductivity etc.) be calculated? In openfoam, we can use the CHEMKIN (.dat .inp files )as the input files and then use chemkinToFOAM convert the chemkin files to FOAM files (foam.dat foam.inp). Since we postulate a "new" substance (in our case:CxHyOz) , then how should i determine the the values of "x,y,z" and the properties of the "new substance"?
I implore your help. Thank you very much!

Best regards,
wenxu