| Description of target | Sensitivity diagram | Prediction of GRI-Mech 2.11 |

DESCRIPTION OF THE TARGET

Target NF3: CH half-width in a laminar premixed flame of methane

Mixture: CH4-O2-N2 (10.7%/18.8%/70.5%), phi = 1.13
P = 30 torr; flow rate = 1.89e-3 gm/cm^2 s

Reference: Heard, D.E., Jeffries, J.B., Smith, G.P., and Crosley, D.R., 'LIF Measurements in Methane/Air Flames of Radicals Important in Prompt-NO Formation,' Combust. Flame 88:137 (1992).

TARGET VALUES
Experimental
(cm)		 Initial (unoptimized)
mechanism		 GRI-Mech 2.11
0.41 0.30 0.305

SENSITIVITY DIAGRAM

The sensitivity spectrum shown below was computed with a reaction mechanism composed of GRI-Mech 1.2 and an evaluated 'literature' (i.e., non-optimized) set of 99 reactions of nitrogen-containing species

|NF1| NF2| NF3| NFR1| NFR2| NFR3| NF6| NF7| NF8| NF9| NF10| NF11| NF12|