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The conditional moment closure (CMC) model has successfully been employed for simulation of turbulent nonpremixed combustion in diverse engineering problems. The solution procedure was developed for Lagrangian CMC with a single or multiple fuel or flame groups for a diesel engine in our previous work. Multiple flame groups may consider different histories and residence times through the sequence of evaporation, ignition and mixing controlled combustion. The Lagrangian CMC model has an advantage of less computational burden than Eulerian CMC with fixed spatially resolved grids. However, it cannot allow interaction among different flame groups through premixed combustion, while such interaction occurs through spatial transport terms in Eulerian CMC. In this work an improved version of the Lagrangian CMC model is proposed to consider interaction by premixed flame propagation along a constant mixture fraction contour between neighboring flame groups.

Low temperature combustion (LTC) may allow simultaneous reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and soot with acceptable compromise in the efficiency of a diesel engine. Recently oxygenate biodiesel fuels were tested to resolve the problem of CO emission at higher exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) rates in LTC operation. In this paper 3-D simulation is performed by KIVA with soybean biodiesel blends of D100 and BD20 for a heavy duty test engine. The oxygen fraction in intake gas is controlled between 7% and 19% to simulate EGR in LTC operation. A surrogate mechanism is constructed by combining the skeletal mechanisms of methyl butanoate (MB) and n-heptane for low and high temperature chemistry. It consists of 76 species and 243 reaction steps with detailed NOx chemistry. The conditional moment closure (CMC) model is employed to address coupling between turbulence and chemistry.