Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20307007, 50576081) and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (R 107532), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-07-0761) and a Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (200747).
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combined with detailed chemical kinetics was employed to model the filtration combustion of a mixture of methane/air in a packed bed of uniform 3 mm diameter alumina spherical part...