Research Article

Charged Species Concentration in Combusting Mixtures Using Equilibrium Chemistry

Table 2

Comparison of the dominant equilibrium ion concentrations using the Calcote method and minimization of the Gibbs free energy method.

SpeciesCalcoteCEA (all species)
(ions/cc)(ions/cc)

NO+1.7x1071.8x107

H2O+4.4x1044.02x102

2.2x1048.4x101

1.5x1032