Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Complex reaction processes in combustion unraveled by neural network-based molecular dynamics simulation

  • Jinzhe Zeng,
  • Liqun Cao,
  • Mingyuan Xu,
  • Tong Zhu,
  • John Z. H. Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19497-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Gaining insights into combustion processes is challenging due to the complex reactions involved. The present work proposes a neural network potential model trained to ab initio data that enables to simulate the combustion of methane by predicting reactants, products and reaction intermediates.